Contact-induced structural change in Acadian and Louisiana French : mechanisms and motivations

• Main Author: Neumann-Holzschuh, Ingrid
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: français d'Amérique du nord; changements structurels issus du contact entre langues; influence de l'anglais; reproduction grammaticale; convergence; causalité multiple; French in North America; Contact induced structural language change; English influence; Grammatical replication; Multiple causation; lang; litt; Heine; Newfoundland; Terre-Neuve
• Online Access: http://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=LS_129_0047

This paper deals with the linguistic mechanisms of contact induced language change in Acadian French as it is spoken in the Maritime Provinces and in Newfoundland as well as in Louisiana French. The fact that English has been the dominant language in these areas for a very long time has had severe c...