'Whether abregement is a good word' (Vaugelas and his followerss facing nominal derivatives)

Abstract

The paper deals with how Vaugelas and some of his followers in the 17th century structured their attitude towards deverbative nouns in -ment like retardement or abregement.

Keywords

• &apos
• Whether
• abregement
• word&apos
• Vaugelas
• followerss
• facing
• nominal
• derivatives