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Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities
Albert Valdman (Ed.)
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Hardback. Editor(s): Valdman, Albert; Rottet, Kevin J. Num Pages: 900 pages, black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: CBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 229 x 49. Weight in Grams: 2350.
The Dictionary of Louisiana French (DLF) provides the richest inventory of French vocabulary in Louisiana and reflects precisely the speech of the period from 1930 to the present. This dictionary describes the current usage of French-speaking peoples in the five broad regions of South Louisiana: the coastal marshes, the banks of the Mississippi River, the central area, the north, and the western prairie. Data were collected during interviews from at least five persons in each of twenty-four areas in these regions. In addition to the data collected from fieldwork, the dictionary contains material compiled from existing lexical inventories, from texts ... Read more
The Dictionary of Louisiana French (DLF) provides the richest inventory of French vocabulary in Louisiana and reflects precisely the speech of the period from 1930 to the present. This dictionary describes the current usage of French-speaking peoples in the five broad regions of South Louisiana: the coastal marshes, the banks of the Mississippi River, the central area, the north, and the western prairie. Data were collected during interviews from at least five persons in each of twenty-four areas in these regions. In addition to the data collected from fieldwork, the dictionary contains material compiled from existing lexical inventories, from texts ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Condition
New
Number of Pages
900
Place of Publication
Jackson, United States
ISBN
9781604734034
SKU
V9781604734034
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Ref
99-60
About Albert Valdman (Ed.)
Albert Valdman is Rudy Professor of French, Italian, and Linguistics (emeritus) and the director of the Creole Institute at Indiana University. He is also the editor of the Haitian Creole-English Bilingual Dictionary.|Kevin J. Rottet is associate professor of French Linguistics and adjunct professor of Linguistics at Indiana University. He is the author of Language Shift in the Coastal Marshes of ... Read more
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