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Books : Reference : Foreign Languages : French : General

• Say Chic: A Collection of French Words We Can't Live Without

  Francoise Choi, Jeremy Leven

  
  
   

• French and Creole in Louisiana (Topics in Language and Linguistics)

  
  Leading specialists on Cajun French and Louisiana Creole examine dialectology and sociolinguistics in this volume, the first comprehensive treatment of the linguistic situation of francophone Louisiana and its relation to the current development of French in North America outside of Quebec. Topics discussed include: language shift and code mixing speaker attitudes the role of schools and media in the maintenance of these languages and such language planning initiatives as the CODOFIL program to revive the sue of French in Louisiana. £/LIST£
  
   

• Linguistic Consequences of Language Contact and Restriction: The Case of French in Ontario, Canada (Oxford Studies in Language Contact)

  Raymond Mougeon, \xef\xbf1/2douard Beniak

  
  This study of minority languages documents the linguistic consequences of contact and restriction. First providing sociohistorical and sociolinguistic backgrounds, the book analyzes the effect contact with English and language-use restriction has had on the evolution of the French dialect spoken in predominately English-speaking Ontario, Canada. Addressing such fundamental theoretical issues as the interplay between linguistic and extralinguistic causes of structural change and the mechanisms of linguistic change in bilingual communities, this work will appeal to linguists interested in language contact and linguistic change.
  
   

• The Rhine Franconian Element in Old French (Studies in Old Germanic Languages and Literatures, Vol 5)

  Jr. Paul W. Brosman

  
  All evidence considered by Meyer-Lbke, Gamillscheg, and Wartburg concerning the features distinguishing the High German dialects from Low Franconian is examined to determine whether French borrowed from Old High German as well as Low Franconian and, if so, to identify the dialect or dialects involved. It is concluded that, contrary to Gamillscheg, French borrowed appreciably from Old High German and from Rhine Franconian rather than, as Meyer-Lbke and Wartburg thought, from the higher East Franconian dialect, which both they and Gamillscheg took to be typical of High German. The further conclusion that, collectively, loans from Low Franconian were earlier than those from Rhine Franconian permits proposal of an approximate date for the extinction of Low Franconian in France.