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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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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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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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Creoles are typologically distinct from non-creoles
, 2011 In creolist circles, there has been a a long-standing debate whether creoles differ structurally from non-creole languages and thus would form a special class of languages with specific typological properties.
Mikael Parkvall +7 more
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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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Creole Formation as Language Contact [PDF]
, 2003 The research on the formation of (radical) creoles has seen an unprecedented intensification and diversification in the last 20 years. This book discusses, illustrates, and evaluates current research on creole formation based on an in-depth investigation of the processes and mechanisms that contributed to the emergence of the morphosyntactic system of ...
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Exploring language in a multilingual context. Variation, interaction and ideology in language documentation. By Bettina Migge and Isabelle Léglise [PDF]
, 2016 Bettina Migge and Isabelle Léglise’s monograph Exploring Language in a Multilingual Context sheds light onto recent developments in the English-lexified creole languages of Surinamese origin spoken in western French Guiana, i.e.
Yakpo, K, Yakpo, Kofi
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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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Journal of Pidgin and Creole LanguagesAbstract This article examines naming practices in creole languages and in scholarly discourse, addressing names in and for creole languages. It asks what constitutes a ‘creole name’, how the input languages affect and shape creole onomastics, and when creole
Philipp Krämer +2 more
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