Dictionary of Louisiana French : As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities

English

ISBN: 1604734035

EAN: 9781604734034

Category: Foreign Language Study / French

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi

Release Date: 12/31/2009

Synopsis: TheDictionary 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, theDLFnot 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. TheDLFfeatures 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 inla Louisiane.

Dictionary of Louisiana French : As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities

Illustrated: No

Format: Hardcover

Width: 9.0 inches

Length: 11.0 inches

Pages: 900