(last updated 2007-08-07)

LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM
1. Name of requester: C. E. Whitehead
2. E-mail address of requester: cewcathar at hotmail.com
3. Record Requested:
Type: variant
Subtag: 1694acad
Description: Early Modern French
Added: 2007-03-20
Prefix: fr
Comments: 17th century French, as catalogued in the "Dictionnaire de
l'académie françoise", 4eme ed. 1694; frequently includes
elements of Middle French, as this is a transitional period

4. Intended meaning of the subtag:
5. Reference to published description
of the language (book or article):

* Dictionnaire de l'académie françoise. 4eme ed. (1694).
Paris/ARTFL Project,
University of Chicago.
Retrieved online 2006-2007:
http://portail.atilf.fr/dictionnaires/ACADEMIE/index.htm

* Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe. (1984).
"Fenelon's Letter to the French Academy:
with an introduction and commentary".

* Ayres-Bennett, Wendy. (2004).
"Sociolinguistic variation in seventeenth-century France:
methodology and case studies".
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

* La Salle, M. S. (de la Salle le jeune, Nicholas). (1682/1685).
Journal.
"Relation de la decouverte que M. de la Salle a faite
de la Rivière de Mississipi en 1682
et de son retour jusqu'a Quebec
et aussi de son voyage de France dans le golfe Mexique
pour aller chercher l'embouchure du Mississippi en 1684
qu'elle me fait donnée par le jeune M. de la Salle".
Texas Treasures. Texas State Library & Archives Commission.
Retrieved online 2006-2007:
http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/treasures/giants/lasalle/lasalle-cover.html
http://teacherweb.com/FL/Cocoa/CEWhitehead/HTMLPage15.stm

6. Any other relevant information: Language in French text may vary
widely in the 17th century.

(file created 2007-08-07)