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- Title
- Mississippi and Teche Creole: a demographic and linguistic case for separate genesis in Louisiana
- Title
- Demographic and linguistic case for separate genesis in Louisiana
- Publisher
- Auckland : The University of Auckland
- Date
- 1994
- Author/Creator
- Speedy, Karin Elizabeth
- Description
- Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in French, University of Auckland, 1994.
- Description
- Thesis (MA--French)--University of Auckland, 1994.
- Description
- Bibliography: p. 173-183.
- Description
- The first explorations -- European settlement -- Linguistic implications of the European settlement of Louisiana -- The slave trade to Louisiana -- Mississippi and Tèche Creole - two separate starting points for Creole in Louisiana? -- A comparison of relative clauses in Pointe Coupée (Mississippi) and Breaux Bridge (Tèche) Creoles -- Relative clauses in nineteenth century Louisiana Creole -- Conclusion.
- Description
- This study presents a detailed examination of the early socio-demographic history of Louisiana with particular focus on European and slave settlement in the French and Spanish periods. On the basis of these demographics as well as some textual evidence it is argued that despite theoretical predictions to the contrary, a Creole language did emerge and 'jell' in situ in the period 1719-1770. Instrumental in the creation of this language, which was spoken in settlements along the Mississippi River, were those African slaves who had arrived 1719-1731. Demographics also sugges that the Creole spoken to the west of the Atchafalaya River, unsettled until the 1760s, was the product of a semi-separate genesis. An examination of the relativization strategies of modern representatives of the two Creoles (PC and BB) in addition to the number of differences noted by Klingler (1992) suggest that this was indeed the case.
- Description
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Description
- xi, 183 p. map
- Subject Keyword
- Creole dialects, French -- Louisiana
- Subject Keyword
- Linguistic demography -- Louisiana
- Subject Keyword
- African Americans -- Louisiana -- Languages
- Subject Keyword
- French language -- Dialects -- Louisiana
- Subject Keyword
- Louisiana -- History
- Subject Keyword
- Louisiana -- Languages
- Resource Type
- Thesis non-Macquarie
- Organisation
- University of Auckland
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/144503
- Identifier
- 1556814
- Language
- eng
- Rights
- Copyright Karin Elizabeth Speedy 1994.
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