French Loanwords in Canadian English: A Usage-Based Approach

This paper focuses on the semantic evolution of French loanwords adopted into Canadian English from the seventeenth century onwards. Our lexical database of Canadianisms of French origin, extracted from historical dictionaries and works on contemporary Quebec Gallicisms, was verified by other source...

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Main Author: Julie Rouaud
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires du Midi 2019-12-01
Series:Anglophonia
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/2508
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