Etymological Dictionary of the French Creoles in America

从共时的角度来看，DECA旨在对路易斯安那州、海地、小安的列斯群岛(瓜德罗普、玛丽-加兰特、马提尼克、圣卢西亚)和法属圭亚那所说的法语克里奥尔语的词汇进行详尽的盘点，这些语言从17世纪起出现在前法国殖民地。这部词典与1993年至2007年出版的四卷本《法兰西英语词典》一样，是对瓦尔特·冯·沃特堡的《法兰西语源词典》的补充，该词典在结构和数据呈现方面是一种方法论模型。从历时的角度来看，这部词典记录了克里奥尔语词汇的起源、发展和构成，但它也是对海外法语变体研究的贡献。今天加拿大的法语变体(魁北克、阿卡迪)已经有了很好的记载，但加勒比海的法语直到最近才受到关注。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”进行分析，以揭示殖民时期(17-18世纪)的法语口语。在这方面，DECA在历时语音和音系学以及区域法语和克里奥尔语的词汇和认知语义学领域的基础研究方面做出了重要贡献。

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.