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Études Créoles, 2022 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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Languages, 2019 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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Fully bare nominals in two Creoles: A description and a tentative constructional account
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2010 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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Les prépositions en Créole Casamançais
Traduction et Langues, 2023 Prepositions in Casamance Creole If nouns, verbs, and adjectives can manifest indications of person, plurality, or negation, and recognize that adverbs, at the very least, may bear the mark of negation, a distinct category of words emerges that is ...
Noël Bernard Biagui
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Altre Modernità, 2019 The linguistic complexity of the Caribbean context forces any literary author to choose a language (or more languages) in the very wide range offered by the Creole continuum, from Creole to the European languages that arrived on the islands through ...
Giuseppe Sofo
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Modeling the emergence of contact languages. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 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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General Locative Marking in Martinican Creole (Matinitjè): A Case Study in Grammatical Economy
Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2020 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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Altralang Journal, 2023 The Cardinal Numeration in Casamance Creole: Morphosyntactic Uses and Money Counting System ABSTRACT: Even if more than 50% of its lexicon comes from Portuguese, the Casamance Creole is now an autonomous linguistic system.
Noël Bernard BIAGUI
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Gragoatá, 2017 In this article we seek to analyse the pedagogical teaching/learning contexts of creole language in the French overseas departments of Martinique and Guadeloupe.
Vanessa Massoni da Rocha
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A Cross-linguistic Comparison of Copular Predication: Some Basic Assumptions Revisited
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2004 This paper explores the syntax of copular predication within and across the varieties of Cape Verdean Creole bringing new insights about the morpho-syntactic properties of the copula with respect to functional and lexical categories.
Marlyse Baptista
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