Gilles Quentel
List of John Benjamins publications in which Gilles Quentel is involved.
Article
2011 La néologie expressive et onomatopéique dans l’étymologie du français Revue Romane 46:1, pp. 89–104 | Article
It is generally well-accepted that, in every language, a significant amount of unknown etymologies can be explained by the means of “echoism”, which states that a historically unexplained word can be of onomatopoeic origins.
This paper objects to the theory in general, taking the particular case of… read more