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Lugawiyyat, 2021 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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Literacy and the vernacular : a case study based on the post-colonial history of Mauritius, with particular reference to Mauritian Creole [PDF]
, 2015 This thesis examines the process of the literization of the vernacular, and seeks to establish the island of Mauritius as a case study of this process.
Hills, Laura
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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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, 2023 This paper presents new Skepi Creole Dutch data from the late-18th century, found in the work of the German scholar Ernst Karl Rodschied. The creole data include pronominal and verbal paradigms, a short 60-word excerpt from a private letter, and around ...
Mikael Parkvall +4 more
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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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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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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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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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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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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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