Sentence examples for The langue from inspiring English sources
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Language as a system rather than language in use, including the formal rules, structures, and limitations of language.
The langue d'oïl (forerunner of modern French) was the dominant language from the 17th century.
The langue d'oïl had a tradition of dance and spinning songs before the troubadours exerted by the mid-12th century an influence encouraged by, among others, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Guilhelm IX's granddaughter and queen of France and later England (as the wife of Henry II).
He spoke the langue d'oc by choice, and probably the dialect of Occitan favoured in his mother's Aquitaine.
These poems are witness to diverse zones of linguistic evolution from spoken Latin; by the 12th century the langue d'oïl (Old French) north of the Loire was broadly differentiated from the langue d'oc (Occitan, or Provençal, language) to the south.
It had its own language — the langue d'oc, or Occitan, closer to Catalan than to French — and its own culture.
If you've managed to learn a few words of Basque or Catalan, forget them - the language here is Aranese, a dialect of the langue d'oc.
Saussure also introduced several basic dimensions of linguistic analysis that are still fundamental in many contemporary linguistic theories, such as the distinctions between syntagm and paradigm, and the Langue-parole distinction, distinguishing language as an abstract system (langue), from language as a concrete manifestation of this system (parole).
In France, the Frankish invasion in the north created the difference between the northern langue d'oïl and the southern langue d'oc.
In 1975, Hannah Green and her husband, Jack Wesley, discovered on the old pilgrim route from Le Puy to Santiago de Compostela, a hill village called Conques, where French is a second language and the native patois is derived from the ancient langue d'oc.
THE France Langue teaching method provides instruction in groups of 8 to 12 that are often broken up into smaller working groups for conversational projects or grammatical exercises.
Although both French words translate into English as "language," the former (langage) refers to logics and structures of syntax and semantics not necessarily specific to particular natural languages, whereas the latter (langue), which also could be translated into English as "tongue," does refer to the notion of a natural language.
