Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities
| PUBLISHER | University Press of Mississippi (11/12/2009) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Hardcover (Hardcover) |
Description
The Dictionary of Louisiana French (DLF) provides the richest inventory of French vocabulary in Louisiana and reflects precisely the speech of the period from 1930 to the present. This dictionary describes the current usage of French-speaking peoples in the five broad regions of South Louisiana: the coastal marshes, the banks of the Mississippi River, the central area, the north, and the western prairie. Data were collected during interviews from at least five persons in each of twenty-four areas in these regions. In addition to the data collected from fieldwork, the dictionary contains material compiled from existing lexical inventories, from texts published after 1930, and from archival recordings. The new authoritative resource, the DLF not only contains the largest number of words and expressions but also provides the most complete information available for each entry. Entries include the word in the conventional French spelling, the pronunciation (including attested variants), the part of speech classification, the English equivalent, and the word's use in common phrases. The DLF features a wealth of illustrative examples derived from fieldwork and textual sources and identification of the parish where the entry was collected or the source from which it was compiled. An English-to-Louisiana French index enables readers to find out how particular notions would be expressed in la Louisiane.
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ISBN-13:
9781604734034
ISBN-10:
1604734035
Binding:
Hardback or Cased Book (Sewn)
Content Language:
English
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Page Count:
900
Carton Quantity:
8
Product Dimensions:
8.86 x 1.92 x 11.26 inches
Weight:
5.18 pound(s)
Feature Codes:
Bibliography,
Index,
Dust Cover,
Table of Contents,
Illustrated
Country of Origin:
US
Subject Information
BISAC Categories
Reference | Dictionaries
Reference | French
Reference | Linguistics - Sociolinguistics
Dewey Decimal:
447.976
Library of Congress Control Number:
2009015211
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The Dictionary of Louisiana French (DLF) provides the richest inventory of French vocabulary in Louisiana and reflects precisely the speech of the period from 1930 to the present. This dictionary describes the current usage of French-speaking peoples in the five broad regions of South Louisiana: the coastal marshes, the banks of the Mississippi River, the central area, the north, and the western prairie. Data were collected during interviews from at least five persons in each of twenty-four areas in these regions. In addition to the data collected from fieldwork, the dictionary contains material compiled from existing lexical inventories, from texts published after 1930, and from archival recordings. The new authoritative resource, the DLF not only contains the largest number of words and expressions but also provides the most complete information available for each entry. Entries include the word in the conventional French spelling, the pronunciation (including attested variants), the part of speech classification, the English equivalent, and the word's use in common phrases. The DLF features a wealth of illustrative examples derived from fieldwork and textual sources and identification of the parish where the entry was collected or the source from which it was compiled. An English-to-Louisiana French index enables readers to find out how particular notions would be expressed in la Louisiane.
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Editor:
Rottet, Kevin J.
Kevin J. Rottet is associate professor of French Linguistics and adjunct professor of Linguistics at Indiana University. He is the author of "Language Shift in the Coastal Marshes of Louisiana" and a co-author of the "Dictionary of Louisiana Creole".
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Editor:
Valdman, Albert
Albert Valdman is Rudy Professor of French, Italian, and Linguistics (emeritus) and the director of the Creole Institute at Indiana University. He is also the editor of the "Haitian CreoleaEnglish Bilingual Dictionary".
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Editor:
Ancelet, Barry Jean
Barry Jean Ancelet, a professor of French and Francophone studies at the University of Southwestern Louisiana, is the author of many books about the French culture of southern Louisiana, including "Cajun Country" and "Cajun and Creole Music Makers: Musiciens cadiens et creoles".
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