29.1498, Books: Nominal Contact in Michif: Gillon, Rosen

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Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2018 13:01:54
From: Celine Aenlle-Rocha [Celine.Aenlle-Rocha at oup.com]
Subject: Nominal Contact in Michif: Gillon, Rosen

 


Title: Nominal Contact in Michif 
Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/nominal-contact-in-michif-9780198795339 


Author: Carrie Gillon
Author: Nicole Rosen

Hardback: ISBN:  9780198795339 Pages: 192 Price: U.S. $ 85.00


Abstract:

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Semantics
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Michif (crg)


Written In: English  (eng)

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