Influences of Houma ancestral languages on Houma French
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Nicholas Faraclas
Abstract
By considering the emergence of Houma French in its political, social, and cultural context and by avoiding mono-causal scenarios for its development, we demonstrate how indigenous language patterns and indigenous agency can be traced, detected and validated in Houma French. An acknowledgement of indigenous agency not only helps to deepen our understanding of both the historical and linguistic factors that led to the emergence of languages like Houma French in the colonial era, but helps as well to alert us to new possibilities for the survival of these languages in the future.
Abstract
By considering the emergence of Houma French in its political, social, and cultural context and by avoiding mono-causal scenarios for its development, we demonstrate how indigenous language patterns and indigenous agency can be traced, detected and validated in Houma French. An acknowledgement of indigenous agency not only helps to deepen our understanding of both the historical and linguistic factors that led to the emergence of languages like Houma French in the colonial era, but helps as well to alert us to new possibilities for the survival of these languages in the future.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Acknowledgements ix
- Abbreviations xi
- Marginalized peoples, racialized slavery and the emergence of the Atlantic Creoles 1
- African agency in the emergence of the Atlantic Creoles 41
- Women and colonial era creolization 55
- Indigenous peoples and the emergence of the Caribbean Creoles 81
- Linguistic evidence for the influence of indigenous Caribbean grammars on the grammars of the Atlantic Creoles 111
- Sociétés de cohabitation and the similarities between the English lexifier Creoles of the Atlantic and the Pacific 149
- Influences of Houma ancestral languages on Houma French 185
- Marginalized peoples and Creole Genesis 215
- References 225
- Index 239
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Acknowledgements ix
- Abbreviations xi
- Marginalized peoples, racialized slavery and the emergence of the Atlantic Creoles 1
- African agency in the emergence of the Atlantic Creoles 41
- Women and colonial era creolization 55
- Indigenous peoples and the emergence of the Caribbean Creoles 81
- Linguistic evidence for the influence of indigenous Caribbean grammars on the grammars of the Atlantic Creoles 111
- Sociétés de cohabitation and the similarities between the English lexifier Creoles of the Atlantic and the Pacific 149
- Influences of Houma ancestral languages on Houma French 185
- Marginalized peoples and Creole Genesis 215
- References 225
- Index 239
