The Use of Historical Demography for Historical Sociolinguistics: the Case of Dunkirk

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    This chapter combines historical demographic and linguistic research to come to an understanding of language shift in seventeenth-century Northern France. The article details the Francophone immigration to the town of Dunkirk around and after its annexation to France in 1662, focusing in particular on the integration of migrants into the local community through intermarriage. The author then reports on a quantitative dialectological study of the French of Dunkirk in comparison to other French varieties. This study shows similarities in particular with varieties from the migrants' places of origin, lending credence to the suggestion that Francophone migration played an important role in the language shift. Moreover, this research signals the importance of an integrated social and linguistic perspective in the writ­ ing of language histories.
    Originele taal-2English
    TitelLanguage and History, Linguistics and Historiography
    RedacteurenNils Langer, Steffen Davies, Wim Vandenbussche
    Plaats van productieOxford etc.
    UitgeverijP.I.E. - Peter Lang
    Pagina's323-340
    ISBN van geprinte versie978-3-0343-0761-1
    StatusPublished - 2011

    Publicatie series

    NaamStudies in historical linguistics
    UitgeverijLang
    Volume9
    ISSN van geprinte versie1661-4704

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