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Publication details [#59166]

Gadet, Francoise and Ralph Ludwig. 2014. Introduction: French Language(s) in Contact Worldwide. History, Space, System, and other Ecological Parameters. Journal of language contact 7 (1) : 3–35.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

colonialism | historical linguistics | language contact | language variety | national language

Language as a subject

French

Place, Publisher

Brill

Annotation

Drawing on a linguistic ecology approach, this paper discusses how several language contact waves are underlying the appearance and evolution of the French language, and how new French varieties evolved via colonial expansion.