Mots d’origine amérindienne du français régional des An-tilles dans un corpus de littérature contemporaine

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to contribute to the grammatical study of the words having an Amerindian origin in the French variety from the Lesser Antilles. The Amerindian loan words, even much less numerous by comparison with the Creole loan words, are an unquestionable source for the lexical richness of the French from the West Indies. Refering to trees, plants, exotic fruits, objects for domestic use or traditional meals, these words having an Indigenous origin offer the possi­bility to recover a part of the cultural inheritance of the Amerindians who nowadays don’t exist anymore.