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Publication details [#32520]

Brown, Becky. 2003. Code-convergent borrowing in Louisiana French. Journal of Sociolinguistics 7 (1) : 3–23.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | borrowing | language shift | lexeme | morpheme

Language as a subject

English, American | French, Louisiana

Place, Publisher

Blackwell Publishers

ISBN

1360-6441

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/josl

Annotation

This paper deals with the language shift from French to English in French Louisiana and with the nature of borrowings, and in particular with bilingual lexemes and morphemes of English-origin loanwords from a Louisiana corpus of bilingual French/English speakers.