Early Modern French
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Early Modern French is the historical stage of the French language used roughly between the 16th and 18th centuries, during which its grammar, vocabulary, and orthography moved toward the form of modern standard French.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Early Modern French canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3888370 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Early Modern French Context triple: [Middle French, developedInto, Early Modern French]
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A.
Middle French
Middle French is the historical stage of the French language used roughly between the 14th and 17th centuries, marking the transition from Old French to Modern French.
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B.
France Modern
France Modern refers to the simplified heraldic design of the French royal arms featuring three gold fleurs-de-lis on a blue field, adopted from the late Middle Ages onward.
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C.
Old French
Old French was the medieval Romance language spoken in northern France and surrounding regions, which served as the linguistic ancestor of modern French and significantly influenced English after the Norman Conquest.
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D.
French Early Gothic
French Early Gothic is the formative phase of Gothic architecture that emerged in 12th-century France, characterized by innovations such as pointed arches, ribbed vaults, and flying buttresses that enabled taller, lighter church structures.
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E.
French Renaissance
The French Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in France, roughly spanning the 15th to early 17th centuries, marked by the adoption of Italian Renaissance ideas in art, architecture, literature, and court culture.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Early Modern French Target entity description: Early Modern French is the historical stage of the French language used roughly between the 16th and 18th centuries, during which its grammar, vocabulary, and orthography moved toward the form of modern standard French.
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A.
Middle French
Middle French is the historical stage of the French language used roughly between the 14th and 17th centuries, marking the transition from Old French to Modern French.
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B.
France Modern
France Modern refers to the simplified heraldic design of the French royal arms featuring three gold fleurs-de-lis on a blue field, adopted from the late Middle Ages onward.
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C.
Old French
Old French was the medieval Romance language spoken in northern France and surrounding regions, which served as the linguistic ancestor of modern French and significantly influenced English after the Norman Conquest.
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D.
French Early Gothic
French Early Gothic is the formative phase of Gothic architecture that emerged in 12th-century France, characterized by innovations such as pointed arches, ribbed vaults, and flying buttresses that enabled taller, lighter church structures.
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E.
French Renaissance
The French Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in France, roughly spanning the 15th to early 17th centuries, marked by the adoption of Italian Renaissance ideas in art, architecture, literature, and court culture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical stage of the French language
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language variety ⓘ |
| approximateEndDate | circa 1800 ⓘ |
| approximateStartDate | circa 1500 ⓘ |
| associatedWithAuthor |
François Rabelais
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Jean Racine ⓘ Jean-Jacques Rousseau ⓘ Madame de Sévigné ⓘ Michel de Montaigne ⓘ Molière ⓘ Pierre de Ronsard ⓘ René Descartes ⓘ Voltaire ⓘ |
| codificationEvent | founding of the Académie française in 1635 ⓘ |
| codifiedBy | Académie française ⓘ |
| developedFrom | Middle French ⓘ |
| developedInto |
Metropolitan French
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surface form:
Modern French
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| featureChange |
development of complex periphrastic tenses
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emergence of many abstract nouns in -tion ⓘ expansion of lexical borrowing from Italian ⓘ expansion of lexical borrowing from Latin ⓘ expansion of lexical borrowing from Spanish ⓘ gradual fixation of gender assignment patterns ⓘ increasing use of fixed SVO word order ⓘ increasing use of silent final consonants in spelling ⓘ loss of many verbal inflectional distinctions ⓘ reduction of case system in nouns and adjectives ⓘ regularization of verb paradigms ⓘ stabilization of French orthography ⓘ |
| follows | Middle French ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Romance languages ⓘ |
| linguisticPeriod |
Early Modern period
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surface form:
Early Modern period of European languages
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| orthographicReference |
Dictionnaire de l’Académie française
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surface form:
Dictionnaire de l’Académie française (1st edition)
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| partOf | history of the French language ⓘ |
| precedes | Modern French ⓘ |
| primaryRegion |
Kingdom of France
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Paris ⓘ |
| regulatedBy | royal language policies in France ⓘ |
| sociolinguisticRole |
diplomatic lingua franca in Europe
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language of administration in France ⓘ language of literature in France ⓘ prestige language of European courts ⓘ |
| standardBasedOn | Parisian French dialect ⓘ |
| standardizationProcess | movement toward modern standard French ⓘ |
| subFamily | Gallo-Romance languages ⓘ |
| usedInPeriod |
16th century
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17th century ⓘ 18th century ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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Subject: Early Modern French Description of subject: Early Modern French is the historical stage of the French language used roughly between the 16th and 18th centuries, during which its grammar, vocabulary, and orthography moved toward the form of modern standard French.
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