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

by Raymond Mougeon and Edouard Beniak

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019824827X
• ISBN13: 9780198248279
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.5"