Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. List of tables xi
4. List of abbreviations xiii
5. Acknowledgements xv
6. Chapter 1 Introduction 1
7. Chapter 2 The sociohistorical background 5
8. Chapter 3 Origins and development of Acadian French 31
9. Chapter 4 Languages in contact 43
10. Chapter 5 A grammatical sketch 59
11. Chapter 6 The linguistic consequences of language contact 81
12. Chapter 7 The semantic and syntactic reanalysis of lexical borrowings 115
13. Chapter 8 Syntactic reanalysis and the preposition system 135
14. Chapter 9 Borrowed wh-words and the structure of relative clauses 151
15. Chapter 10 Conclusion 167
16. Appendix A 177
17. Appendix B 205
18. References 227
19. Index 239