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Nominal Contact in Michif (Hardcover)
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Nominal Contact in Michif (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies of Endangered Languages, 5
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This book explores the results of language contact in Michif, an
endangered Canadian language that is traditionally claimed to
combine a French noun phrase with a Cree verb phrase, and is hence
usually considered a 'mixed' language. Carrie Gillon and Nicole
Rosen provide a detailed account of the Michif noun phrase in which
they examine issues such as the mass/count distinction, plurality,
gender, articles, and demonstratives. Their analysis reveals that
while parts of the Michif noun phrase have French lexical sources,
and the language has certain features that are borrowed from
French, its syntax in fact looks very much like that found in other
Algonquian languages. The final chapter of the book discusses the
wider implications of these findings: the authors argue that
contact does not create a whole new language category and that
Michif should instead be considered an Algonquian language with
French contact influence; they also extend their analysis to other
mixed languages and creoles. The book will be of interest to
Algonquian scholars, formal linguists in the fields of syntax,
morphology, and semantics, and to all those working on issues of
language contact.
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