French and Creole in LouisianaAlbert Valdman Leading specialists on Cajun French and Louisiana Creole examine dialectology and sociolinguistics in this volume, the first comprehensive treatment of the linguistic situation of francophone Louisiana and its relation to the current development of French in North America outside of Quebec. Topics discussed include: |
Contents
Chapter | 1 |
Chapter | 3 |
Chapter | 6 |
Introduction | 12 |
Chapter 2 | 25 |
Acquiring and Losing Linguistic Proficiency | 34 |
Future of Cajun French | 42 |
Methodology | 48 |
Chapter 8 | 215 |
Social versus Community and Cultural Norms in Louisiana | 221 |
The Issue of Norms in Louisiana French Language Planning | 227 |
History of the St Barth Colony | 240 |
Language Varieties of St Barth | 246 |
Conclusion | 252 |
Maintenance and Transmission of Traditional Acadian Features | 264 |
Language Contact Phenomena | 275 |
Conducting the Fieldwork | 55 |
Preliminary Quantitative Results on Linguistic Attitudes | 61 |
29 | 63 |
Phonology | 108 |
Grammar | 116 |
Sentence Structure | 132 |
The African Element in Louisiana Creole | 139 |
The Lexicon of Louisiana French | 145 |
Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Describing | 153 |
Lexicogenetic Strategies | 160 |
Chapter 7 | 183 |
Conclusion | 207 |
Conclusion | 209 |
Conclusion | 282 |
The FrancoOntarians | 288 |
Taped Interview Excerpts | 299 |
Conclusion | 309 |
Chapter 12 | 315 |
Perspectives | 330 |
Linguistic Influences during the Formative Period of Louisiana Creole | 337 |
Implications of the Historical Perspective for Modern Louisiana Creole | 344 |
Chapter 14 | 351 |
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Acadian Acadian French adjective African agglutination Ancelet areas attested attitudes Barth basilectal Baton Rouge Beniak bilingual borrowing Cajun communities Cajun culture Cajun French Cajun music CF and LC CF speakers chapter code switching CODOFIL colony consonant créole Daigle dialect Ditchy Domengeaux English ethnic example fluent speakers français France Franco-Ontarians Francophone French in Louisiana French language French Louisiana French-speaking Griolet Guilbeau interviews investigators j'ai Klingler LAB Index Lafayette Lafourche Lafourche Parish language death language shift lexical lexicogenetic lexicon linguistic loanwords Louisiana Creole Louisiana French Louisiana State University marker Master's thesis Milroy Mougeon Neumann norm noun occurs Paris Parish parler person plural phonological Pointe Coupée population preposition proficiency pronoun Québec region respondents Rottet semispeakers slaves social sociolinguistic speech community spoken Standard French stem suffix Terrebonne tion variable variation varieties of French verbs vernacular versus vowel words