Writing Acadia
Writing Acadia

Author: Runte

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-10-09

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 9004647651

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The phenomenal development of writing and literary creation among the francophone communities of eastern Canada has gone largely unnoticed and unprobed outside the fragmented land of Acadia. Writing Acadia attempts for the first time to observe from a distance the invention of literature in oral Acadia, and to interpret, assess and order the manifold manifestations of the transition from epic story-telling to writing as a means of nation-building. Having begun to write, modern Acadia has truly (re)written herself into existence, an existence now threatened by postmodern unwriting of literature. Destined not only for specialists but also and especially for readers with a general interest in literature, including students of all levels, Writing Acadia presents generous samples of Acadian poetry, drama and prose, with accompanying English translations.

Report
Report

Author: Public Archives of Canada

Publisher:

Published: 1906

Total Pages: 1028

ISBN-13:

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Report accompanied by historical documents, calendars, etc.

Contemporary French Poetics
Contemporary French Poetics

Author: Michael Bishop

Publisher: Rodopi

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9789042009837

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This book finds its origin partly in the International Colloquium on French and Francophone Literature in the 1990's at Dalhousie University, September 1998. number of the papers, since reworked, take their place here alongside other studies subsequently invited. They form a broad and varyingly focused set of cogent and pertinent appraisals of very recent French, and francophone, poetic practice and its shifting, becoming conceptual underpinnings.

Language and a Sense of Place
Language and a Sense of Place

Author: Chris Montgomery

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-05-25

Total Pages: 387

ISBN-13: 1107098718

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This book explores twenty-first century approaches to place by bringing together a range of language variation and change research.

The Lexical Basis of Grammatical Borrowing
The Lexical Basis of Grammatical Borrowing

Author: Ruth King

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2000-12-21

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 902729951X

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This book is a detailed study of French-English linguistic borrowing in Prince Edward Island, Canada which argues for the centrality of lexical innovation to grammatical change. Chapters 1–4 present the theoretical and methodological perspectives adopted along with the sociolinguistic history of Acadian French. Chapter 5 outlines the basic features of Acadian French morphosyntax. Chapter 6 provides an overview of the linguistic consequences of language contact in Prince Edward Island. Chapters 7–9 consider three particular cases of grammatical borrowing: the borrowing of the English adverb back and the semantic and syntactic reanalysis it has undergone, the borrowing of a wide range of English prepositions, resulting in dramatic changes in the syntactic behaviour of French prepositions, and the borrowing of English wh-ever words, resulting in the emergence of a new type of free relative. Chapter 10 argues for a theory of grammar contact by which contact-induced grammatical change is mediated by the lexicon.

Colonisations
Colonisations

Author: Xavier Pons

Publisher: [Toulouse] : Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail, Service des publications

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13:

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