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Dérivation et composition linguistiques – deux procédés d’enrichissement du nouchi, français populaire en Côte d’Ivoire
Linguistic derivation and composition - two enrichment processes of nouchi, popular French in Ivory Coast

Author(s): Jacques N’goran Kouacou
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: UNIVERSITATEA »ȘTEFAN CEL MARE« SUCEAVA
Keywords: Nouchi; French; variety; derivation; composition;

Summary/Abstract: Talking urban youth occurred in the 80's, the nouchi is a variety of popular French in Ivory Coast. The nouchi is marked by many innovations and borrowings by various Ivorian languages but also to European languages such as English and Spanish. Our problem is to analyze the formal processes of lexical creations in this talk through the derivation and composition which are two major sources of enrichment of the lexicon of nouchi. This analysis provides an opportunity to see how this internal structure of words from these two lin-guistic phenomena and thus raises a corner of the veil on the description of the talk in full development in Côte d'Ivoire.

  • Issue Year: 6/2011
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 104-120
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: French
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