Qui, Que, Quoy dans Le Thresor de la langue françoyse tant ancienne que moderne de Jean Nicot et L'Acheminement de Jean Masset

Abstract

Roger Bellon, « Qui, Que, Quoy in Jean Nicot's Thresor de la langue françoyse tant ancienne que moderne and Jean Masseťs Acheminement ». This study bears on both Le Thresor de la langue française by Nicot and the bilingual grammatical booklet inserted in it and attributed to Jean Masset. Every modern reader will be struck by the persistence of the Latin model, as exemplified in the work of R. Estienne, in Nicot's dictionary, as well as by the variation in the amount of categorization. With Masset, it is the complete heterogeneity of grammatical terms as well as the absence of categorization that stands out. Masset's pedagogical method forces him to start from forms, of which he gives a complete array, before he indicates the correct use for each of them. His analysis rests on case morphology, not on syntactic functions. variation in the amount of categorization. With Masset, it is the complete heterogeneity of grammatical terms as well as the absence of categorization that stands out. Masset's pedagogical method forces him to start from forms, of which he gives a complete array, before he indicates the correct use for each of them. His analysis rests on case morphology, not on syntactic functions.