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A rich man had a garden in which he had planted pear trees sprung from seeds taken from Eden. If eaten, these pears were said to have rejuvenating properties. Since he never had the opportunity to sample his pears -- because the fruit was always stolen from the bough -- he charged his children with finding the thief. But only his youngest will undertake the task and find the enchanted dove.

Alongside considerable continuity, 20th-century diachronic linguistics has seen substantial shifts in outlook and procedure from the 19th-century paradigm. Our understanding of what is really new and what is recycled owes a great debt to E. F. K. Koerner's minutely researched interpretations of the work of the field's founders and key transitional figures. At the cusp of the 21st century, some of the best known scholars in the field explore how these methodological shifts have been and continue to be played out in historical Romance, Germanic and Indo-European linguistics, as well as in work...

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Ce livre est un hommage à Daniel Alcouffe. Pendant quarante-deux ans, d'abord conservateur au département des Objets d'art du musée du Louvre, puis responsable du département, Daniel Alcouffe, avec une réussite exemplaire, a mis en valeur et enrichi les collections. En témoignage de leur admiration et de leur amitié, quarante-quatre auteurs, conservateurs de musée et historiens d'art, ont apporté leur contribution à ce livre de mélanges. Ces quarante-quatre textes permettent de découvrir des chefs-d'œuvre inédits dans des domaines d'une extraordinaire variété : ivoire,...