Morphosyntactic Variation and Language Shift in Two Franco-American Communities
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Title
Morphosyntactic Variation and Language Shift in Two Franco-American Communities
Description
From the author: "Although the originally French speaking Franco-American communities of Southbridge, Massachusetts, and Woonsocket, Rhode Island, have much in common historically, language shift toward English has advanced to differing degrees in the two locations. In this dissertation, I explore morphosyntactic variation and the advance of language shift in the two locations using historical documentation, U.S. census figures and sociolinguistic interviews conducted with sixty-nine informants....After comparing and contrasting the sociolinguistic profiles of the two communities, I describe some of the linguistic consequences of the shift from French to English in these traditional Franco-American centers through a quantitative variationist analysis of two morphosyntactic variables. These are auxiliary variation in the passé composé and variation between use of the synthetic and analytic futures. Findings from Southbridge and Woonsocket provide new insight for understanding linguistic change during situations of language decline..."
Creator
Stelling, Louis E.
Source
Date
2008
Language
en
Type
Thesis/Dissertation
Identifier
Coverage
21st century; Southbridge, Massachusetts; Woonsocket, Rhode Island
Contribution Form
Online Submission
No
Zotero
Num Pages
201
Place
Albany, New York
Thesis Type
Ph. D., Linguistics
University
State University of New York at Albany
URL
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