Resumen de The syntactic structures of Lingua Franca in the Dictionnaire de la langue franque
Lingua Franca (LF) is a contact vernacular that was used for interethnic communication in the Mediterranean area until the second half of the nine-teenth century. The Romance linguistic basis of LF is not disputed, however, the precise nature and extent of the Romance contributions to LF, particularly outside the area of the lexicon, have only recently begun to be assessed. This study aims at providing an exhaustive overview of the syntactic structures of LF as presented in the key documentary source on this language, the anonymous didactic dictionary of 1830 that describes and documents a LF variety spoken in Algiers.The accompanying comparative study shows that the syntactic structures of LF are continuous with, and represent a subset of, those of its Romance lexifiers.
