Language Shift in the Coastal Marshes of LouisianaThroughout the twentieth century numerous ethnic cultures and languages have been threatened by increasing globalization. French Louisiana, a vibrant and diverse region that has been culturally and linguistically distinct from its neighbors for over two centuries, has not been spared this trend. Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes, which comprise the coastal marsh area, have been described as strongholds of tradition, in which large numbers of people have continued to speak Cajun French. Yet a closer examination reveals that widespread bilingualism is drawing to a close, with very few young people able to speak French at all. This book examines the intergenerational decline of French in the coastal marsh area, including changes taking place in the structure of the language in what appears to be its terminal phase. |
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Page 84
... important of these two dimensions . For a different corpus with many more families of Lafourche Cajun fishermen , however , us- ing occupation as a social variable would probably yield interesting results , but is not possible with the ...
... important of these two dimensions . For a different corpus with many more families of Lafourche Cajun fishermen , however , us- ing occupation as a social variable would probably yield interesting results , but is not possible with the ...
Page 85
... important events of the sixties serve to reinforce a division based upon people born before and during or after that period . The integration laws dissolving Indian schools and mixing Cajun children with Indian children were passed in ...
... important events of the sixties serve to reinforce a division based upon people born before and during or after that period . The integration laws dissolving Indian schools and mixing Cajun children with Indian children were passed in ...
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... important in different bilingual communities . One of the most important factors influencing language choice in Terrebonne - Lafourche is interlocutor . If a person habitually speaks CF with her grandmother , she will tend to do so ...
... important in different bilingual communities . One of the most important factors influencing language choice in Terrebonne - Lafourche is interlocutor . If a person habitually speaks CF with her grandmother , she will tend to do so ...
Contents
Language Shift and Language Death | 11 |
CHAPTER THREE | 47 |
CHAPTER FOUR | 77 |
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Acadian age group aller Arvanitika attested autres avoir Bayou bilingual c'est Cajun French changes clitic clitic doubling CODOFIL conditional conditional mood contexts Conwell and Juilland Creole dialect disjunctive pronoun Dorian dying languages enfants English ethnic ĂȘtre eusse eux-autres fait finite fluent speakers follait Fr/E French-speaking Gaelic guage Guilbeau Houma imparfait imperfect speakers Indian informants j'ai Lafourche Parish language choice language death language shift linguistic Louisiana Creole Louisiana French minority language morphology noted noun occur older speakers parle parler français Parr pattern Pointe TP preposition stranding present proficiency qu'eusse qu'il qu'on relative clause relative pronoun semi-speakers sentences social speak French speech spoken stranding strong prepositions structure subject pronoun subjunctive subordinate clauses TABLE temps Terrebonne Parish Terrebonne-Lafourche tion TL corpus tout translation task usage variation verb form Vermilion Parish veut veux vous-autres y'all yeux younger speakers