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Publication details [#41223]
Rottet, Kevin J. 2004. Inanimate interrogatives and settlement patterns in Francophone Louisiana. Journal of French Language Studies 14 (2) : 169–188. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper examines the evidence for Byers' claim that the geographical distribution of the interrogatives qui and quoi, both meaning ‘what’, mirrors the differential settlement histories of respectively early 18th century Creoles, and Acadians.