Kurt Baldinger

This is the first dictionary of Old Gascon organised on thematic principles. It covers the period from the earliest extant documents to the 17th century and extends to all relevant idioms and sources Old Gascon texts, medieval Latin and regional French. The complete dictionary will comprise some 130 80-page fascicles."

The third and final supplement to volumes 21-23 of the FEW (Walther von Wartburg's -Franzosisches Etymologisches Worterbuch- = Etymological Dictionary of French) proposes new, in some cases hitherto unpublished solutions, and contains bibliographic information, indications for further reading, corrections, predatings, etc. It also has a number of additions to the material published in Etymologies 1 and 2. The volume closes with a complete index to all three supplements to the FEW and a selected bibliography."

The -Etymological Dictionary on Rabelais (Gargantua)- sets out to supply a semantic analysis of difficult and ostensibly 'easy' words (faux amis) used by Rabelais (1494?--1553) and to serve as a foundation for historical interpretation (linguistic and literary). To this end it provides systematic cross-references to the FEW dictionary (-French Etymological Dictionary-) and lists all the earliest known sources. The study of -Gargantua- has produced some 800 first references for words and meanings. The reference material has been verified from a language-historical viewpoint and the etymologies established by drawing on the FEW. This material consists of excerpts from -Gargantua- and the Rabelais references in all 25 volumes of the FEW."

The book series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur romanische Philologie, founded by Gustav Grober in 1905, is among the most renowned publications in Romance Studies. It covers the entire field of Romance linguistics, including the national languages as well as the lesser studied Romance languages. The editors welcome submissions of high-quality monographs and collected volumes on all areas of linguistic research, on medieval literature and on textual criticism. The publication languages of the series are French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian as well as German and English. Each collected volume should be as uniform as possible in its contents and in the choice of languages.

Le Dictionnaire onomasiologique de l ancien gascon (DAG) est le premier dictionnaire qui se consacre specifiquement au vocabulaire gascon medieval. Trop souvent assimile a l occitan medieval dans son sens global, l ancien gascon est longtemps demeure le grand inconnu de la diachronie gallo-romane. L objectif du DAG est de presenter de facon onomasiologique l inventaire lexical du plus ancien gascon depuis les origines de la langue ecrite, au XIe siecle jusqu a 1300 environ, periode qui voit l apparition des premiers textes litteraires. Le corpus est constitue de textes documentaires (chartes et textes de loi) formant une entite coherente qui n'a pratiquement pas subi les influences du francais, comme ce sera le cas aux siecles suivants. Le DAG nouvelle formule se presente desormais comme un dictionnaire plus concis, plus dense et plus tonique. Les nouveaux articles accordent davantage d importance a la description semantique et aux emplois en locution. L ancienne citation profuse des contextes se limitera a un seul exemple. La simplification qui en decoule procure un gain de lisibilite. Le fascicule no 12 poursuit les travaux onomasiologiques des fascicules 1 a 11 traitant de l -univers- (partie A). Il amorce la section de l homme (partie B) avec -L homme, etre physique- (B.I)."