The Lexical Basis of Grammatical Borrowing
A Prince Edward Island French case study
1st Edition
Published on 21. December 2000
XVI, 241 pages
978-90-272-9951-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book is a detailed study of French-English linguistic borrowing in Prince Edward Island, Canada which argues for the centrality of lexical innovation to grammatical change. Chapters 1-4 present the theoretical and methodological perspectives adopted along with the sociolinguistic history of Acadian French. Chapter 5 outlines the basic features of Acadian French morphosyntax. Chapter 6 provides an overview of the linguistic consequences of language contact in Prince Edward Island. Chapters 7-9 consider three particular cases of grammatical borrowing: the borrowing of the English adverb back and the semantic and syntactic reanalysis it has undergone, the borrowing of a wide range of English prepositions, resulting in dramatic changes in the syntactic behaviour of French prepositions, and the borrowing of English wh-ever words, resulting in the emergence of a new type of free relative. Chapter 10 argues for a theory of grammar contact by which contact-induced grammatical change is mediated by the lexicon.
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Content
- THE LEXICAL BASIS OF GRAMMATICAL BORROWING
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of tables
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. The sociohistorical background
- Chapter 3. Origins and development of Acadian French
- Chapter 4. Languages in contact:Theory and methodology
- Chapter 5. A grammatical sketch
- Chapter 6. The linguistic consequences of language contact: Codeswitching and borrowing
- Chapter 7. The semantic and syntactic reanalysis of lexical borrowings: The case of back
- Chapter 8. Syntactic reanalysis and the preposition system
- Chapter 9. Borrowed wh-words and the structure of relative clauses
- Chapter 10. Conclusion
- Appendix A: Words of English Origin, Abram-Village
- Appendix B: Words of English Origin, Saint-Louis
- References
- Index
- CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY
