User:CJ Withers/Quebec French (lexis)

See Quebec French lexicon for more examples and further explanation.

The lexis of Quebec French is dinstinctive for:


 * lexical items formerly common to both France and New France and that are today unique only to Quebec French; (This includes expressions and word forms that have the same form elsewhere in La Francophonie, yet have a different denotation or connotation.)
 * borrowings from Amerindian languages, esp. place names;
 * les sacres - Quebec French profanity (see separate article);
 * many loanwords, calques and other borrowings from English in the 19th and 20th centuries, whether such borrowings are considered standard French or not;
 * starting in the latter half of the 20th century, an enormous store of French neologisms (coinages) and re-introduced words via terminological work by professionals, translators, and the OLF; some of this terminology is "exported" to the rest of la Francophonie;
 * feminized job titles and gender-inclusive language;
 * morphological processes that have been more productive:
 * 1. suffixes: -eux/euse, -age, -able, and -oune
 * 2. reduplication (e.g. the international French word guéguerre): bibite, cacanne, etc.
 * 3. reduplication plus -oune: chouchoune, doudoune, foufounes, gougounes, moumoune, nounoune, poupoune, toutoune.