Tracing the origins of verlan in an early nineteenth century text?
This article examines early attestations of verlan and related backward slangs in French in the nineteenth century. Its main contribution is the edition and analysis of the only known text, a letter, written with features of verlan before the twentieth century. This largely predates other attested f...
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
2017
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