The diffusion of French à travers from the 18th century onwards.

This paper investigates possible explanations for the sudden diffusion of the French expression à travers, meaning ‘(way) through/across’, from the middle of the 18th century onwards. From that moment, à travers became remarkably more used than the similar expression au travers (de), and also relat...

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Main Author: Thomas Hoelbeek
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cercle linguistique du Centre et de l'Ouest - CerLICO
Series:Corela
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/corela/14959

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