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The long and short of verb alternations in Mauritian Creole and Bantu languages [PDF]
Folia Linguistica, 2015 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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O „cudownych formacjach”, czyli rzecz o językach kreolskich
LingVaria, 2018 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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Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2008 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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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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Language and Jamaican Literature
Altre Modernità, 2019 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
Languages, 2020 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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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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Dodgy data, language invisibility and the implications for social inclusion: A critical analysis of indigenous student language data in Queensland Schools [PDF]
, 2015 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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, 2023 This book offers a selection of papers dealing with second language acquisition, foreign language teaching and creole linguistics inspired by the scientific legacy of Mauritian-born scholar Georges Daniel Véronique (Port-Louis, 1948). An important part of the book is devoted to the description of learner varieties with a focus on sociolinguistic ...
Granget, Cyrille +2 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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