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Second Language Acrolect Replacement in Limon Creole
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1977 Second Language Acrolect Replacement in Limon Creole, Costa Rica.
Herzfeld, Anita
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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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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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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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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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Journal of Ibero-Romance Creoles, 2015 Creole morphosyntax has sometimes been regarded as "simpler" than corresponding structures in the lexifier language. It is rare for the range of functional elements in the lexifier language to be expanded in the respective creole language.
John M. Lipski
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A case study of language shift in progress in Port Limon, Costa Rica
Revista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 2015 Este trabajo presenta los resultados de la investigación llevada a cabo entre la población hablante de inglés criollo de Puerto Limón, Costa Rica. La comunidad criolla de Limón está en el proceso de cambiar su criollo de base inglesa por el español ...
Marva Spence Sharpe
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[Review of] Rakhmiel Peltz. From Immigrant to Ethnic Culture: American Yiddish in South Philadelphia [PDF]
, 1997 Rakhmiel Peltz, in From Immigrants to Ethnic Culture: American Yiddish in South Philadelphia, presents one of the few ethnographies available on spoken American Yiddish in his investigation of the elderly children of immigrant Jews in a Philadelphia ...
Fader, Ayala
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Applied Linguistics, sociolinguistics and world Englishes
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract The world Englishes perspective, especially as expressed within Kachru's formulation of the Inner, Outer and Expanding Circles of Englishes, provides a flexible and coherent model of the historical spread of English. While the model has had a profound influence on various subfields of applied linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics ...
Andrew Moody
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A filiação dos pronomes pessoais do crioulo da ilha de Santiago (Cabo Verde)
Journal of Ibero-Romance Creoles, 2012 This article proposes a diachronic reconstruction of the personal pronoun system of the Capeverdean Creole variety spoken on the island of Santiago, based on what we know about the personal pronouns of late medieval Portuguese and the pronouns which ...
Jürgen Lang
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