Program

Preservation and Access: Reference Materials - Tools

Period of Performance

9/1/1977 - 6/30/1981

Funding Totals

$45,000.00 (approved)
$44,737.39 (awarded)


Computer-Assisted Lexicographic and Lexicological Research in Creole French [LRLR]

FAIN: RT-*1263-77

Indiana University (Bloomington, IN 47405-7000)
Albert Valdman (Project Director: May 1977 to October 1990)

The preparation of the first proper dictionary for Creole French, a language spoken by more than five million persons in the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean. The primary dialect selected is that of Haiti where ninety per cent of the population are monolingual speakers of Creole.