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Sur le lexique de la "Troisième Continuation de Perceval" en prose
No full textThe aim of this article is to compare the lexicon of Perceval le Galloys (1530), ters 94-109, to its source, the Manessier's Continuation. The author's choices - suppression, substitution, preservation and gloss - reveal his translation technique, sometimes his difficulties or preferences; they especially show the existence, in early sixteenth-century lexicon, of many strata: archaisms go with "modern" words, or even neologisms. The 1530 author is a good interpreter of the ancient lexicon, and only rarely does the opacity of a word prevent him from understanding an entire passage
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