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The double modal construction in English world wide
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 485-503, September 2026.Abstract The dual foci of the present study of double modals are their semantic characteristics and their distribution across regional varieties of English world wide. Tokens were extracted from GloWbE:Blogs, a database whose great size and informal tenor facilitated the investigation of this low‐frequency non‐standard feature. Double modals were found
Peter Collins, Adam Smith
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Decolonizing Creole on the Mauritius Islands: Creative Practices in Mauritian Creole
Island Studies Journal, 2016 Many Caribbean and Indian Ocean islands have a common history of French and British colonization, where a Creole language developed from the contact of different colonial and African/ Indian languages. In the process, African languages died, making place
Gitanjali Pyndiah
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L’impact du futur périphrastique français dans les franco-créoles
TIPA. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage, 2015 Creole languages are the most recent natural languages (Khim 2005). As a matter of fact the question of their classification imposed itself very early to linguists when the language science enquired about the topic of language filiation in the second ...
Marie E. Paul
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Balancing risk and reward—Perceptions of bats and their ecological role in Reunion island
People and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 8, Page 2720-2733, August 2026.Abstract Context: Bats provide vital ecosystem services but can also generate disservices or sanitary concerns, particularly where human–bat interactions are frequent. Understanding public perceptions of bats is essential for effective conservation and risk communication.
Rachel Leong +2 more
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Studies in Logic, Grammar and RhetoricOne of the claims of creole exceptionalism is that creole languages have lexicons of reduced conceptual and expressive complexity. Building on previous studies of the lexicon of Nigerian Pidgin/NP and the applications of the cognitive linguistic ...
Kosecki Krzysztof
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Acquisition of the Closing Diphthongs /əʊ/ and /eɪ/ in English L2 and Jamaican Creole
SAGE Open, 2015 This study investigates the claim that the strategies used by second/foreign language learners are, more or less, the same as those used by speakers of pidgin/creole languages.
Ahmed Mousa
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Nigerian Creole as language of instruction: Will Nigerian lecturers use Nigerian Creole?
Reading & Writing, 2015 This mixed questionnaire survey sought to determine if lecturers who learned to speak and understand Nigerian Creole before English are willing to use the language as medium of instruction.
Uju C. Ukwuoma
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American Ethnologist, Volume 53, Issue 3, Page 296-309, August 2026.Abstract The world of Colombian gaited horses, or cultura caballista (horse‐riding culture), is often linked with uribismo, the right‐wing identity associated with former president Álvaro Uribe Vélez. Ethnographic fieldwork in conflict‐torn Antioquia reveals how horse‐human practices of training, breeding, and competition cultivate orientations toward ...
Gwen Burnyeat
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Oral language profiles and associated factors in children after neonatal arterial ischaemic stroke
Developmental Medicine &Child Neurology, Volume 68, Issue 8, Page 1105-1116, August 2026.This original article is commented on by Westmacott on pages 1026‐1027 of this issue. Abstract Aim To characterize language outcomes at age 7 years after neonatal arterial ischaemic stroke (NAIS) and identify language profiles and determinants. Method This prospective longitudinal cohort study included 70 children (44 males) from a French cohort with ...
Laure Drutel +4 more
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Diagnostic features of English-lexified creoles: first attestations from Virgin Islands English creole [PDF]
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2011 This paper presents the earliest attestations in Virgin Islands English Creole of the diagnostic features of English-lexified contact languages proposed by Baker and Huber (2001).
Andrei A. Avram
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