Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities by Valdman, Albert

Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781604734034)

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Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities by Valdman, Albert

Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities

$40.00
Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities by Valdman, Albert

Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities

$40.00
Format: Hardcover
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The Dictionary of Louisiana French (DLF) provides the richest inventory of French vocabulary in Louisiana and reflects precisely the speech of the period from 1930 to the present. This dictionary describes the current usage of French-speaking peoples in the five broad regions of South Louisiana: the coastal marshes, the banks of the Mississippi River, the central area, the north, and the western prairie. Data were collected during interviews from at least five persons in each of twenty-four areas in these regions. In addition to the data collected from fieldwork, the dictionary contains material compiled from existing lexical inventories, from texts published after 1930, and from archival recordings.

The new authoritative resource, the DLF not only contains the largest number of words and expressions but also provides the most complete information available for each entry. Entries include the word in the conventional French spelling, the pronunciation (including attested variants), the part of speech classification, the English equivalent, and the word's use in common phrases. The DLF features a wealth of illustrative examples derived from fieldwork and textual sources and identification of the parish where the entry was collected or the source from which it was compiled. An English-to-Louisiana French index enables readers to find out how particular notions would be expressed in la Louisiane.

Author: Albert Valdman
ISBN-10: 1604734035
ISBN-13: 9781604734034
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Language: English
Published: 11/12/2009
Pages: 900
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 5.18lbs
Size: 11.26h x 8.86w x 1.92d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 03/01/2010 pg. 109
Booklist 03/15/2010 pg. 68
LJ Best Reference Sources 04/15/2010 pg. 26
Choice 07/01/2010
By Albert Valdman
By Albert Valdman
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Barry Jean Ancelet (Assistant Editor)
Barry Jean Ancelet, a professor of French and Francophone studies at the University of Southwestern Louisiana, is author of many books about the French culture of southern Louisiana, including Cajun Country, Cajun and Creole Folktales: The French Oral Tradition of South Louisiana, and Cajun and Creole Music Makers: Musiciens cadiens et cr駮les.

Albert Valdman (Editor)
Albert Valdman is Rudy Professor of French, Italian, and Linguistics (emeritus) and the director of the Creole Institute at Indiana University. He is also editor of the Haitian Creole-English Bilingual Dictionary.

Kevin J. Rottet (Editor)
Kevin J. Rottet is associate professor of French linguistics and adjunct professor of linguistics at Indiana University. He is author of Language Shift in the Coastal Marshes of Louisiana and coeditor of the Dictionary of Louisiana Creole.

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