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A Language of Our Own: The Genesis of Michif, the Mixed Cree-French Language of the Canadian Métis (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics)
Peter Bakker
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| #5849870 in Books | Peter Bakker | 1997-06-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.50 x.97 x6.31l,1.59 | File type: PDF | 336 pages | A Language of Our Own The Genesis of Michif the Mixed Cree French Language of the Canadian Metis||9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.| One of the best linguistics books I own|By A Customer|I'm a bit biased, since my mother is Canadian and we have Cree blood, but overall this book is one of the best linguistics books I've read in a long time. The book gives the history of the "impossible language" (as quoted from the book) that formed from French and aboriginal Canadian languages. The book isn't written only fo|||"Bakker offers us here a thorough grammatical description of the hybrid Michif language, including a pointed discussion of the Ojibwe substratum in its Cree component. There are two well-organized indexes and a wealth of references and comparisons with other
The Michif language -- spoken by descendants of French Canadian fur traders and Cree Indians in western Canada -- is considered an "impossible language" since it uses French for nouns and Cree for verbs, and comprises two different sets of grammatical rules. Bakker uses historical research and fieldwork data to present the first detailed analysis of this language and how it came into being.
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