Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact
- Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Maps Volume I
- Figures Volume I
- Tables Volume I
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part One Language Contact and Genetic Linguistics
- Part Two Linguistic Areas
- Part Three Language Spread
- Part Four Emergence and Spread of Some European Languages
- 14 The Emergence and Evolution of Romance Languages in Europe and the Americas
- 15 The Expansion and Evolution of Portuguese
- 16 French and English in Contact in North America
- 17 French in African Contact Settings
- 18 The Geographical and Demographic Expansion of English
- Part Five Language Diasporas
- Author Index
- Language Index
- Subject Index
- References
16 - French and English in Contact in North America
from Part Four - Emergence and Spread of Some European Languages
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 June 2022
- The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact
- Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Maps Volume I
- Figures Volume I
- Tables Volume I
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part One Language Contact and Genetic Linguistics
- Part Two Linguistic Areas
- Part Three Language Spread
- Part Four Emergence and Spread of Some European Languages
- 14 The Emergence and Evolution of Romance Languages in Europe and the Americas
- 15 The Expansion and Evolution of Portuguese
- 16 French and English in Contact in North America
- 17 French in African Contact Settings
- 18 The Geographical and Demographic Expansion of English
- Part Five Language Diasporas
- Author Index
- Language Index
- Subject Index
- References
Summary
This chapter generally deals with the borrowing of lexical items from English into varieties of North American oral French. First, the socio-historic context of English–French language contact in North America from the late eighteenth century to the present is described. Current demographics on French spoken at home in North America are then provided. An extensive review of the quantitative research on lexical borrowing in oral French in North America follows: the Eastern Townships of Quebec, the Ottawa-Gatineau region, on the border of Quebec and Ontario, Nova Scotia, the case of Chiac in New Brunswick, the community of Hearst in northern Ontario, French in Massachusetts and in Louisiana. In conclusion, the article attempts to compare a number of borrowing features in the communities studied, such as rate of lexical borrowing, grammatical category preference in borrowing, degree of morphological, syntactic and phonological integration, etc.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Language ContactVolume 1: Population Movement and Language Change, pp. 505 - 539Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022