Etymological Dictionary of the French Creoles in America

从共时的角度来看，DECA的目的是对路易斯安那州、海地、小安的列斯群岛（瓜德罗普、玛丽-加兰特、马提尼克岛、圣卢西亚）和法属圭亚那的法语克里奥尔语词汇进行详尽的清查，这些词汇从世纪开始出现在前法国殖民地。这本词典与1993年至2007年出版的四卷本《印度洋法语词源词典》（Dictionnaire étymologique des créoles français de l 'Océan Indien，DECOI）一样，被认为是瓦尔特·冯·瓦特堡的《法语词源学世界书》（FEW）的补充，后者在结构和数据呈现方面充当了方法论模型。这本书不仅是克里奥尔语词汇的发展和组成，而且也是对研究海外法语变体的一个贡献。加拿大（魁北克，魁北克）法语的变种今天有很好的文献记载，但加勒比地区的法语直到最近才受到重视。该领域的法国专家将加勒比地区的法语和克里奥尔语视为一个“整体”，一起进行分析，以阐明殖民时期（世纪）的法语口语。在这方面，DECA对法语和克里奥尔语的历时语音学和音系学以及词汇和认知语义学等领域的基础研究做出了重要贡献。

In synchronic perspective, the DECA aims at an exhaustive inventory of the lexicon of the French-based creoles spoken in Louisiana, Haiti, Lesser Antilles (Guadeloupe, Marie-Galante, Martinique, St. Lucia), and French Guiana, which have emerged in the former French colonies from the 17th century onwards. The dictionary – like the Dictionnaire étymologique des créoles français de l’Océan Indien (DECOI) published in four volumes 1993-2007 – is conceived as a supplement to the Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch of Walther von Wartburg (FEW) which serves as a methodological model with regard to its structure and the presentation of the data.In diachronic perspective the dictionary documents origin, development and composition of the creole lexicon, but it is also intended as a contribution to research into the varieties of overseas French. The varieties of French in Canada (Quebec, Acadie) today are well documented, but the Caribbean ones have not received much attention until recently. French specialists in the field consider regional French and creoles of the Caribbean as an „ensemble“ to be analyzed together in order to shed light on spoken French of the colonial period (17th-18th century). In this respect the DECA makes an im-portant contribution to basic research in the fields of diachronic phonetics and phonology as well as lexical and cognitive semantics of regional French and creole.