On the variability of gender in Michif

• Published in: Arborescences
• Main Author: Rosen, Nicole
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Département d'études françaises, Université de Toronto 2020
• Subjects: Michif; gender; mixed languages; language contact; language variation; genre grammatical; langues mixtes; contact linguistique; variation linguistique; lang; psy; Les Prairies; algonquin; Metis
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.7202/1081894ar; http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1081894ar

Michif, a critically endangered Metis mixed language still spoken by an estimated few dozen to a few hundred people across the Canadian Prairie provinces and British Columbia, makes use of two different gender systems: the French sex-based system contrasting masculine and feminine gender, and the Al...