TRESOR DE LA LANGUE FRANAISE

(FrenchTreasury of the French Language) in full Tresor de la Langue Franaise: Dictionnaire de la Langue de XIXe et du XXe Sicle(17891960) etymological and historical dictionary of the French language, a comprehensive, large-scale work still in progress; its first six volumes were published in Paris in 197478. Volume 3 is evidence of the editorial decision, made following publication of the first two, to reduce the scope dramatically and to complete the work in 15 volumes rather than the 60 originally planned. Each entry supplies pronunciation in the International Phonetic Alphabet, definition, orthography, etymology with sources, and history. The first two volumes contain extremely numerous quotations citing usage; this feature was reduced in the third and subsequent volumes. Definitions in the later volumes are still treated comprehensively with illustrative quotations, but not to the extent first envisioned by the Centre de Recherche pour un Tresor de la Langue Franaise, in Nancy, through whose offices the project is being administered.