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Modeling the emergence of contact languages. [PDF]
Contact languages are born out of the non-trivial interaction of two (or more) parent languages. Nowadays, the enhanced possibility of mobility and communication allows for a strong mixing of languages and cultures, thus raising the issue of whether ...
Francesca Tria +3 more
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La créolistique : arguments pour une approche sociohistorique
Creole languages belong to the more general category of contact languages, which also includes pidgins. The aim of this article is to determine to what extent it is possible to define the object of creolistics as a specific linguistic field of research ...
Jean-Philippe Watbled
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The objective of this contribution is to offer an exploratory, descriptive and ecolinguistic approach to actual scriptural practices of Creole in the visual landscape in Guadeloupe. It is based on the idea that this French lexically based Creole is first
Frédéric Anciaux +1 more
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Creole Prosodic Systems Are Areal, Not Simple
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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This special number of the Portuguese Journal of Linguistics contains six articles on various aspects of Portuguese-lexifier creole languages and other creole languages that have been significantly influenced by Portuguese.
Renaud Beeckmans
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Split prosody and creole simplicity - The case of Saramaccan
Saramaccan, an Atlantic creole whose lexifier languages are Portuguese and English, has a “split” prosodic system wherein the majority of its words are marked for pitch accent but an important minority are marked for tone.
Jeff Good
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CREOLE: a Universal Language for Creating, Requesting, Updating and Deleting Resources [PDF]
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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Language is speech, as Ibn Jinni defined it. This definition goes to the growth of the spoken language in society. It is well known that the spoken language is more developed and used than the written language.
Makhi Ulil Kirom
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Assuming that the specific context of creolization (the linguistic urgency, the limited access of learners to the target language, or even a prolonged practice of their original languages) would have favoured the formation of words holding from two or ...
Bohdana Librova
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O „cudownych formacjach”, czyli rzecz o językach kreolskich
What Shall be Understood under Creole Language? Creole languages are being formed as a result of language contact in multicultural and multilingual societies.
Barbara Hlibowicka-Węglarz
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