Adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma in French Guiana (1990-2019): Epidemiology, clinical features, and HTLV-1 genetic diversity in the two main ethnic populations. [PDF]
What's new? Adult T‐cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATL) is a rare and aggressive malignancy caused by human T‐cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV‐1). The authors comprehensively analyzed the epidemiological and clinical features of ATL over a 30‐year period in French Guiana, a region with high HTLV‐1 endemicity and a multiethnic population.
Ramassamy JL +16 more
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The long and short of verb alternations in Mauritian Creole and Bantu languages [PDF]
Mauritian Creole displays an alternation between a short and a long form of the verb, which is reminiscent of the conjoint–disjoint alternation found in some eastern Bantu languages.
van der Wal, Jenneke, Veenstra, Tonjes
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Let me start by quoting the provocative last sentence of the last paper in this volume, which questions “(…) the very validity of the field of Linguistics called Creole and the validity of a categorisation of a group of the languages of the world under a
Tjerk Hagemeijer
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This article discusses the loss of the creole languages on São Tomé Island and the societal move from multilingualism to monolingualism in Portuguese. It argues that recognizing the ideologies attached to these languages is key in understanding
Marie-Eve Bouchard
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Language and Jamaican Literature
Disrespected literatures are written in disrespected languages. Languages are usually disrespected when the status of the people who speak them is low. In postplantation societies the respected language is the European language brought by the people who ...
Velma Pollard
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Asymmetrical Complexity in Languages Due to L2 Effects: Unserdeutsch and Beyond
This study examines asymmetries between so-called inherent and contextual categories in relation to the morphological complexity of the nominal and verbal inflectional domain of languages.
Siegwalt Lindenfelser
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Dodgy data, language invisibility and the implications for social inclusion: A critical analysis of indigenous student language data in Queensland Schools [PDF]
As part of the ‘Bridging the Language Gap’ project undertaken with 86 State and Catholic schools across Queensland, the language competencies of Indigenous students have been found to be ‘invisible’ in several key and self-reinforcing ways in ...
Angelo, Denise, Dixon, Sally
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Exploring language in a multilingual context. Variation, interaction and ideology in language documentation. By Bettina Migge and Isabelle Léglise [PDF]
Book review of Bettina Migge & Isabelle Léglise. Exploring language in a multilingual context : variation, interaction and ideology in language documentation.
Yakpo, K
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Fully bare nominals in two Creoles: A description and a tentative constructional account
Two creole languages are compared in this paper with respect to the possible reference of fully bare nominals (FBNs) in them. One is a Portuguese-related Creole, Kriyol spoken in Guinea-Bissau and Casamance, the other is a French-related Creole, Haitian.
Alain Kihm
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General Locative Marking in Martinican Creole (Matinitjè): A Case Study in Grammatical Economy
Th is article bears on General Locative Marking (GLM), as exemplifi ed in Martinican Creole (MQ): the surface homonymy of phrases denoting Goal, Source and Stative Location.
Anne Zribi-Hertz, Jean-Louis Loïc
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