Citizens' aid preferences amid state collapse: Experimental evidence from Haiti
Development Policy Review, Volume 44, Issue 3, May 2026.Abstract Motivation Citizens' preferences signal which intermediaries they view as legitimate, trustworthy, and responsive, as well as capable of guiding donor decisions about aid‐delivery channels. However, little is known about these preferences in extremely fragile environments, where aid is both the most urgently needed and the most difficult to ...
Ana Isabel López García, Sarah Berens
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What’s specific about bann ? Le lien entre « spécificité » et interprétation exclusive
Études CréolesThe (non)specific interpretation of noun phrases is a recurrent issue in studies on creole languages. Some theories (Bickerton, 1981) had even claimed that the specificity distinction was a distinctive feature of creole languages.
Ulrike Albers
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Towards a Plurilingual Pedagogy in Foreign Language Education in an Anglophone Creole Context
Canadian Journal for New Scholars in Education, 2022 This article proposes a plurilingual pedagogical approach, which encompasses the use of the L1 (Jamaican Creole), the L2 (Standard Jamaican English), and the target language (e.g., Spanish) for the teaching of foreign languages in Jamaica. I discuss the
Renee Davy
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Créoles et français : Quelques différences dans la valence verbale
TIPA. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage, 2015 In this contribution, I look at four valency patterns of Creole spoken in the Seychelles and Mauritius, which clearly differ from the corresponding French patterns.
Sibylle Kriegel
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Review: Gender shifts in the history of English. Anne Curzan.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.pp. 223 + xii. [PDF]
, 2007 Herbert Schendl (2001:9) defines ‘the study of ongoing changes in a language’ as one of the fundamental goals of historical linguistics. Curzan’s book, which examines the historical development of the English gender system, is a work noteworthy not ...
Kádár, Daniel Z.
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Home and away: Alan Riach continues his examination of how travel writing influenced Scottish literature [PDF]
, 2017 No abstract ...
Riach, Alan
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The development of syllable structure in cape verdean creole
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2008 The paper examines syllable restructuring in the Santiago variety of Cape Verdean Creole. It is shownthat currently attested forms reflect to some extent the syllable structure in earlier stages of the language.
Andrei A. Avram
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La criollización y la adquisición del sistema verbal en haitiano, jamaicano y papiamento
Lexis, 2014 Resumen El presente artículo constituye un estudio del sistema de tiempo, modo y aspecto en las lenguas criollas habladas en Haití, Jamaica y las islas de Aruba, Curaçao y Bonaire.
María Teresa Galarza Ballester
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Being Ourselves: Immigrant Culture and Self-Identification Among Young Haitians in Montréal [PDF]
, 2005 Since the early 1960s, large numbers of Haitians have emigrated from their native island nation. Changes in federal immigration legislation in the 1970s in both the United States and Canada enabled immigrants of colour a facilitated entry into the two ...
Pégram, Scooter
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Copulas in contact: Kriyol, Upper Guinea Creoles, and their substrate
Journal of Ibero-Romance Creoles, 2019 The present paper aims to describe copulas in Kriyol from a semantic-syntactic perspective and to compare them to copulas in the other Upper Guinea Creoles and certain substrate languages.
Chiara Truppi
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