"The heart of the book is a detailed morphosyntactic description based on some 150 hours of interviews with Pointe Coupee Creole speakers. Each grammatical feature is amply illustrated with contextual examples, and Klingler's descriptive framework will facilitate comparative res…
An in-depth study of the Creole language spoken in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. Most Creole speakers in the Pointe Coupee area are over sixty-five and the language is not being passed on to the younger generations.
If I Could Turn My Tongue Like That, by Thomas Klingler, is an in-depth study of the Creole language spoken in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, a community situated on the west bank of the Mississippi River above Baton Rouge that dates back to the early eighteenth century. The f…
An in-depth study of the Creole language spoken in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. Most Creole speakers in the Pointe Coupee area are over sixty-five and the language is not being passed on to the younger generations.