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, 2010 The concept of mixed language has recently gained some popularity, to my mind for no good reason. It is unclear how a mixed language can be distinguished from the product of extensive borrowing or relexification.
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although there is a burgeoning scholarship on the Venezuelan migration crisis, few of these studies critically engage with diaspora thought. This article draws on Ipek Demir's conceptualisation of diaspora as translation to explore the analytical purchase of the concept for understanding Venezuelan displacement.
Francisco Llinas Casas
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Serial Verb Constructions in Papiamentu: Historical, Synchronic and Comparative Observations
Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2015 This paper is concerned with the nature and origin(s) of serial verb constructions (SVCs) in Papiamentu, the Creole language of Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao, also known as the ABC-Islands.
Bart Jacobs
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Precarious agency: The role of uptake
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract How do we overcome the agency dilemma, that is, account for the fact that power relations heavily affect our agency without neglecting the many ways in which oppressed people act meaningfully? This article offers a solution by paying special attention to socially complex uptake in a framework of communities of practice. In order to explain the
Deborah Mühlebach
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Language attitudes of Limon creole speakers
Revista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 2015 Este estudio es un análisis de las actitudes de los hablantes del Criollo Inglés de Limón con respecto a su lengua materna. Una actitud negativa hacia esta lengua es una de las causas fundamentales de la asimilación lingüística que ocurre hoy.
Marva Spence Sharpe
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The transportation of embedded inversion in world Englishes
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract The present study uses private correspondence to investigate the use of embedded inversion on both sides of the Atlantic as an illustration of the spread of spoken/conversational features through writing. The paper discusses the use of embedded inversion in Irish English (IrE) and briefly compares its occurrence in other varieties of English ...
Carolina P. Amador‐Moreno
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Considering a lexicographic plan for Gabon within the Gabonese language landscape [PDF]
, 2009 This article raises a number of questions that should be dealt with in drawing up a lexicographic plan for Gabon. For which of the Gabonese languages should lexicographic units be established? This question entrains the issue of inventorying the Gabonese
Ndinga-Koumba-Binza, Hugues Steve
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Creole Formation as Language Contact [PDF]
, 2003 The research on the formation of (radical) creoles has seen an unprecedented intensification and diversification in the last 20 years. This book discusses, illustrates, and evaluates current research on creole formation based on an in-depth investigation of the processes and mechanisms that contributed to the emergence of the morphosyntactic system of ...
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The double modal construction in English world wide
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract The dual foci of the present study of double modals are their semantic characteristics and their distribution across regional varieties of English world wide. Tokens were extracted from GloWbE:Blogs, a database whose great size and informal tenor facilitated the investigation of this low‐frequency non‐standard feature. Double modals were found
Peter Collins, Adam Smith
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Language Change in a Post-Creole, British Contact Setting: Non-Standard Ain’t Negation [PDF]
, 2015 The word ain't is used by speakers of all dialects and sociolects of English. Nonetheless, language critics view ain't as marking speakers as "lazy" or "stupid"; and the educated assume ain't is on its deathbed, used only in cliches.
Braña-Straw, Michelle C
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