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The Transmission of Substrate Features
Journal of Modern Languages, 2020 Theories of the formation of creole syntax have been proposed to explain whether substrates and superstrates influence the resultant creole structures, and if so, what the mechanisms are by which they influence them.
Robert Laub
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Spoken and Sign Language Emergence: A Comparison
Languages, 2022 A comparison of emerging signed languages and creole languages provides evidence that, when language is emerging, it prioritizes marking the novelty of information; is readily recursive; favors the manner of action (aspect) over the time of action (tense)
John McWhorter
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“We Deh”: Women-Loving Women, Rurality, and Creole Linguistic Potentials
InterAlia, 2023 This paper draws on ethnographic interviews with women-loving women (WLW) in Berbice, Guyana, South America, to interrogate the Creole linguistic term “deh” as a cultural heuristic device central to the visibility politics in this rural community.
Preity Kumar
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Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2023 This article proposes to present the issue of insularity in the archipelago of Cape Verde, an African country marked by several centuries of Portuguese colonization, with particular emphasis on the analysis of the interrelation between socio-historical ...
Barbara Hlibowicka-Węglarz
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Creole Prosodic Systems Are Areal, Not Simple
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 This study refutes the common idea that tone gets simplified or eliminated in creoles and contact languages. Speakers of African tone languages imposed tone systems on all Afro-European creoles spoken in the tone-dominant linguistic ecologies of Africa ...
Kofi Yakpo
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CogniTextes, 2022 From a cognitive‑semantic perspective, two important conceptual schemas underlie determiner use and the count/mass distinction in languages such as English and French, namely bounding and definiteness.
Evelyn Wiesinger
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Recreolization as Decolonial Dramaturgy: Tansi Language in Tonel Performance, Sawahlunto City
eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2023 Tonel performance in the city of Sawahlunto is practiced by the ethnic community who speak the Tansi creole language. Sawahlunto in tropical West Sumatra, Indonesia, was built by the Dutch colonialists in the late 19th century as a coal mining center ...
Dede Pramayoza, Fresti Yuliza
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CREOLE: a Universal Language for Creating, Requesting, Updating and Deleting Resources [PDF]
, 2010 In the context of Service-Oriented Computing, applications can be developed following the REST (Representation State Transfer) architectural style. This style corresponds to a resource-oriented model, where resources are manipulated via CRUD (Create ...
Grall, Hervé +2 more
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Les Cahiers de Madeleine ou la vie d’une Mulâtresse de Cayenne
Itinéraires, 2009 Madeleine Tichette was born on 11 November 1901 in Cayenne, in French Guiana. In search of her origins, she found that her great grandmother was a young Negress. She had been bought one day at a slaves’ sale, in Rémire’s Market Square. When Madeleine was
Monique Blerald
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Seasonal quality of milk from Creole grazing goats, stabled Saanen and French-Alpine goats
Revista Colombiana de Ciencias Pecuarias, 2022 Background: Goat milk production has been increasing in northern Mexico; however, there is little information available about its quality. Objective: To compare goat milk quality during three seasons among creole goats in a traditional grazing system and
Víctor-Abrahán Salgado-Beltrán +5 more
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