Swiss French Settlers of Shabo: Several Generations of Language Use
Journal: Heritage Language Journal
Year: 2020

The present article considers the use of Heritage French of Swiss Shabo settlers across four generations, from the 1920s to the 2010s. The research is based on data collected by Soviet scholars in the 1920s, in the 1950s, and those collected in 2018–2019 from informants who are among the last descendants of Swiss Shabo settlers. The present article has two goals. First, it addresses some phonological, morphological and syntactic properties of the Heritage French variety used by Swiss settlers an