Linguistic Consequences of Language Contact and Restriction: The Case of French in Ontario, Canada

by Raymond Mougeon, Édouard Beniak

Overview

This study of minority languages documents the linguistic consequences of contact and restriction. First providing sociohistorical and sociolinguistic backgrounds, the book analyzes the effect contact with English and language-use restriction has had on the evolution of the French dialect spoken in predominately English-speaking Ontario, Canada. Addressing such fundamental theoretical issues as the interplay between linguistic and extralinguistic causes of structural change and the mechanisms of linguistic change in bilingual communities, this work will appeal to linguists interested in language contact and linguistic change.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198248279
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/28/1991
Series:	Oxford Studies in Language Contact
Pages:	254
Product dimensions:	6.25(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.83(d)

About the Author

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

Editorial Reviews

"This book is a welcome addition to a growing genre: variationist approaches to bilingualism and language contact....A significant contribution to studies of minority languages and to the understanding of linguistic change more generally."—Language

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