Rixte, Jean-Claude, éd. 2007 Louis Monder, Dictionnaire des dialectes dauphinois anciens et modernes. Préface Jean-Claude Bouvier. Montclimar: IFO-Drôme & ELLUG ISBN 2-95135186 -0. 899 pp. Hailed by Walther von Wartburg as "l'un des ouvrages les plus remarquables qu'il y ait dans ce genre." the posthumous Dictionnaire des chuléeles dauphinois anciens el modernes of l'abbé Louis Montier ( 1831-1903) is now available in a splendid first-time edition, thanks to Jean-Claude Rixte and the I EO-Drome. Moutier's work covers the North Occitan and Franco-Provençal varieties ofdauphinois from several départements (Drôme. Isère. Hautes-Alpes), with their "diversité étonnante"—the word is JeanClaude Bouvier's, in his preface to the new edition. Frédéric Mistral used an early version in the preparation of his own monumental Tresor dein Felibrige. The dictionary opens with an extremely useful two-page map of Dauphiné, localizing all points covered by Moutier (the accuracy of his localizationsjust one ofthe remarkable aspects of the abbé's work). Cleanly delimited are bas. moyen and haut dauphinois and their borders with provençal alpin (along the valley of the Durance, to the east) and Franco-Provençal (haut dauphinois) to the north. An annex (737-881 ) contains all Occitan words, transcribed into IEO norm but lemmatized according to Moutier's graphy, e.g., "eifoursou" esforçon 'petit effort," "mignoutiso" minliotisa 'cajolerie, caresse,' "poutrassá" poltrussur/pollrussat 'gâter, dissiper/dissipé.' Jean-Claude Rixte has reconstituted a valuable listing of Moutier's sources and added a rich secondary bibliography (883897 ). The edited work includes more than 25,000 entries (some 37,600 lexical items), which will be available online by late April 2008 to purchasers of the print version, and through other subscription opportunities as well (). Kathryn Klingebiel University of Hawai 7 Meinoa 147...