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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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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Market‐based solutions are increasingly tested to address aflatoxin issues in peanuts in developing countries. Although previous studies have found that Haitian grocery store shoppers are willing to pay a 21% premium for peanut butter with levels of aflatoxin that meet international standards, no information is available for the much larger ...
Phendy Jacques +2 more
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Migrant success in UK Education: Are there lessons for government social mobility policy?
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract The school achievement and career aspirations of 23 sixth form students at a multi‐cultural urban academy in the UK are explored through interviews. The sample includes 16 s‐generation migrants, 6 UK‐born students with migrant parents and 1 UK‐born student, selected to represent a cohort of over 300 post‐16 learners.
Bernard Barker, Kate Hoskins
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Contact linguistique et glottogenèse
TIPA. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage, 2023 The emergence of new languages out of languages in contact is a phenomenon that can be observed with a naked eye on the African terrain (see Abidjan French, Sango, Swahili for example).
Cyril Aslanov +2 more
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Who Holds the Strings? Hybrid Governance in Small States
Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines how governance in Caribbean small island developing states (SIDS) is reshaped by enduring postcolonial legacies, recurrent crises, and deepening global interdependence. It highlights turbulence, understood as a structural, generative condition of fragmented and recombining authority, as its central analytical contribution ...
Dana‐Marie Ramjit
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The existence of Indonesian language: Pidgin or Creole
Journal on English as a Foreign Language, 2016 Indonesian language or sometimes called Bahasa is the national language of Indonesia. It was derived from Malay language and established as a national language in 1928. Until now, the Indonesian language keeps borrowing words from other languages.
Dellis Pratika
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« Créoles », « Français », créolisation : identités et langues du père Labat à Thérèse Bentzon
Études Caribéennes, 2023 From the travel literature of the modern era describing the first French colonial societies to the quivering of West Indian literature in the 19th century, the use of the term ‘creole’ reveals the evolution of the discourse on identities and languages ...
Anna Forestier
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Weather, EarlyView.The English language is a gargantuan, gluttonous beast. It has become extraordinary among its peers in its powers of assimilation – such that we rarely consider the diverse origins of the words we use. In this two‐part paper, we will explore these origins, including the Pontic‐Caspian steppe, the British Empire, latinophone scientists and a TV show. We
Kieran M. R. Hunt
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Wildlife Letters, EarlyView.Many nocturnal animals are difficult to study because they are rarely seen, including nocturnal primates, galagos and pottos, in West Africa. Working with over 600 people in 52 villages in southern Guinea‐Bissau, we found that communities frequently recognized galagos by their red eyeshine and distinctive calls, while pottos were not known.
Chloe Chesney +6 more
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
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