Prolegomenon to a Sociolinguistic Inquiry in Brittany: A Study of the Brenton (Celtic) Dialect of Cornouaillais

FAIN: FT-12700-75

Lenora Timm
Regents of the University of California, Davis (Davis, CA 95618-6153)

To make a linguistic analysis of the structural implications of the long years of contact between Breton, a Celtic language, and French, a Romance language. The project will examine the speakers attitudes about each language and will assess the chance for survival of Breton in the face of an international language such as French.