Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2021

The Contact Ecology of French and Creole – a comparative perspective between Guadeloupe and the Seychelles

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In addition to this shared main ecological parameter, the two areas diverge in several other points of their contact ecology: First, due to the different timing of French colonization, the French variety exported to Guadeloupe in the 17th century differed from the variety exported to the Seychelles a century later. Second, while the Seychelles were a British colony from 1814 to independence in 1976, Guadeloupe always remained French and is still a French overseas department. Therefore, the contact ecology in Guadeloupe may be characterized as a reciprocally dominant monocontact situation (see Gadet/Ludwig/ Pfänder 2009), while the situation in the Seychelles is one of polycontact (Seychelles Creole-English-French), with Seychelles Creole and English being dominant in their influence on French (while the reverse is not the case). Using data from several corpora of spoken and written French in the Seychelles and Guadeloupe, this paper shows instances of code copying (e.g. Johanson 2002, Kriegel/Ludwig/Henri 2009) from the two Creole languages (and English) on the morphosyntactical level.

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hal-04936350 , version 1 (08-02-2025)

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Sibylle Kriegel, Ralph Ludwig. The Contact Ecology of French and Creole – a comparative perspective between Guadeloupe and the Seychelles. Summer meeting of the Society of Pidgin and Creole Languages, Society of Pidgin and Creole Languages, Jun 2021, Paris, France. ⟨hal-04936350⟩
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