Code-convergent borrowing in Louisiana French
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3668566 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Becky Brown (0000-0002-2988-7018, Purdue University West Lafayette, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-23 |
| Publication date | 2003-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Sociolinguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1360-6441 • E-ISSN: 1467-9841 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9481.00208 |
| OpenAlex | W2087981613 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
The nature of lexical and structural borrowing has been at the forefront of sociolinguistic debates for many years. This study analyzes bilingual lexemes and morphemes of English-origin loanwords from a Louisiana corpus of twenty-two French/English speakers. French Louisiana, however, has been undergoing language shift from French to English for three generations and, as a consequence, language dominance is in a parallel state of shift. This competing dominance produces borrowings characterized by a range of phonological integration coupled with bound morphemes from both languages. These data suggest that examining borrowing beyond the word level reveals a highly complex interplay of often competing and overlapping grammars
Biology · Dominance (genetics · Linguistics · Morpheme · Rule-based machine translation · Sociology · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.26 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2003 - 2025 (23) |
| Highly cited | No |