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The emergence of productive morphology in creole languages: The case of Haitian Creole [PDF]
, 2003 This paper addresses the problem of the emergence of productive morphology in creole languages on the basis of the case study of Haitian Creole. The aim of this paper is threefold: first propose methodologies that need to be developed in order to study ...
Lefebvre, Claire
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, 2013 This paper revisits the discussion of Saxon-type genitives in French-based Mauritian Creole. These genitives also occur in Seychelles Creole, Louisiana Creole, Karipuna Creole, and Guyanese Creole, but, interestingly, not in any of the other French ...
Syea, A.
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The long and short of verb alternations in Mauritian Creole and Bantu languages [PDF]
, 2016 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.
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Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.Abstract Postcolonial textbook research leads us to reflect on the representation of (post)colonial communities in educational media for adolescents in geography education. This paper contributes to this scholarship through Critical Discourse Analysis tracing how nine Dutch geography textbooks (1946–2018) have represented such communities from ...
Marthe Wierenga, Dietha Koster
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Oblique Serial Verbs in Creole/Pidgin Languages
Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2020 Th is paper focuses on the syntax of (argument introducing/valency increasing) serial verbs in Creole/Pidgin languages, providing empirical arguments for the model of grammatical relations advanced in a series of recent works by Manzini and Savoia (2011a,
Ludovico Franco
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The Grammar of Perception: A Case Study of Guambiano (Namtrik) and Duna
Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract Although the senses provide a common basis for our experience of the world, cross‐linguistic research has revealed substantial diversity across languages in how perceptual experiences are encoded in words. Such variability is also present at the level of grammatical structure, though the project of charting the parameters and limits of cross ...
Elisabeth Norcliffe, Lila San Roque
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Études CréolesThe article, swiftly surveying the history of colonial catechisms written in Creole languages, focuses on those written in the peculiar Creole of the Dutch Antilles, Papiamentu.
Alessandro Costantini
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Introduction: Address Terms in World Englishes
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This special issue explores variations in English address terms across world Englishes, highlighting how globalization and digital communication continue to shape their use. While Western Englishes like British and American English show a decline in hierarchy‐stressing terms (e.g.
Anke Lensch +2 more
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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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Language, creoles, varieties: From emergence to transmission
, 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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