Deinz certeins boundes : Where Does Anglo-Norman Begin and End?

Abstract

1.Introduction.This article is in part prompted by a practical problem which has existed since the inception of the Anglo-Norman Dictionary (AND) in 1947 and which the present editorial team has certainly not resolved. 1It is quite simply: what should go in the AND?The underlying questionwhat exactly is Anglo-Norman?-alsosurfaces in much early writing about Anglo-Norman and it lurks in the depths of a good deal of more recent scholarship.Frequently, indeed, it does so as part of an ideologically laden and disconcertingly polemical discussion about the nature and history of French.A second reason for the present contribution is that it seeks to take further ideas which I have been developing for twenty years or so on the relationship between Anglo-Norman and other languages.The question of the definition of Anglo-Norman is inseparable from this discussion.Much of the debate on both has (until relatively recently) 2 been couched overwhelmingly in terms of the difference between Anglo-Norman and other languages, whether this means continental French, English, or Latin.In contrast, Ardis Butterfield, in a fine recent study, regrets that "Anglo-

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