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Venezuela 1949 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1949
15 de junio de 1949.Gift of C.B. Hitchcock Aug. 14, 1951. Manuscript map. Handwritten note in top margin: Gift of C.B. Hitchcock Aug. 14, 1951 copied from a Creole Petroleum Co.
Creole Petroleum Corporation
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Rediscovering a German Creole [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
„Unserdeutsch”, a creole spoken in a former German South Pacific colony, and what is now Papua New Guinea, is being extensively documented and studied by linguists for the first time.
Neumeier, Katharina   +7 more
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Homelessness et homeboundness dans les nouvelles de deux écrivaines jamaïcaines

open access: yesAmerika, 2015
Migration is the founding act of contemporary Caribbean peoples and cultures, born through the forced migrations of the middle passage, the first movement of mass migration which has forever changed the history of these islands, and of the world.
Giuseppe Sofo
doaj   +1 more source

Who Holds the Strings? Hybrid Governance in Small States

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how governance in Caribbean small island developing states (SIDS) is reshaped by enduring postcolonial legacies, recurrent crises, and deepening global interdependence. It highlights turbulence, understood as a structural, generative condition of fragmented and recombining authority, as its central analytical contribution ...
Dana‐Marie Ramjit
wiley   +1 more source

Creole Social Club records, MSS.0374 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1878
: Insurance policies on the club house, an account book from a Mobile, Alabama, apothecary with the club, and tickets for social events sponsored by this African-American social club.Scope and Content Note: This collection contains insurance policies on ...
Creole Social Club (Mobile, Ala.)
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Balancing risk and reward—Perceptions of bats and their ecological role in Reunion island

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Context: Bats provide vital ecosystem services but can also generate disservices or sanitary concerns, particularly where human–bat interactions are frequent. Understanding public perceptions of bats is essential for effective conservation and risk communication.
Rachel Leong   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vowels in Malacca Portuguese Creole [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper examines the vowel system of present day Malacca Portuguese Creole (MPC) or Kristang, based on recordings from interviews with five female native speakers of MPC. A total of 1083 monophthongs were extracted from the recordings.
Chan, Min En   +3 more
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Indigeneity behind the Scenes: Invasion and Kriolisation

open access: yeseTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2015
This paper seeks to explore the relations between Indigenous and Creole modes of existence and political situations. It combines a theoretical and ethnographic approach to explore the Aboriginal concept of “law and culture” as it emerged in the Kimberley
Martin Préaud
doaj   +1 more source

How weather got its words: a history of meteorological English – Part 1: Old English to the Age of Discovery

open access: yesWeather, EarlyView.
The English language is a gargantuan, gluttonous beast. It has become extraordinary among its peers in its powers of assimilation – such that we rarely consider the diverse origins of the words we use. In this two‐part paper, we will explore these origins, including the Pontic‐Caspian steppe, the British Empire, latinophone scientists and a TV show. We
Kieran M. R. Hunt
wiley   +1 more source

Creole prosody [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Advances in the study of the prosody of Atlantic Creole languages have revealed prosodic systems, in which the traditional division into prosodic types like stress, pitch-accent and tone languages appears to be blurred: We find typologically mixed ...
Yakpo, K
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