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Initial vowel agglutination in the Gulf of Guinea creoles [PDF]
Creole Language Library, 2009 The Gulf of Guinea creoles (GGCs) exhibit a number of cases of initial vowel agglutination to etymologically consonant-initial words in the lexifier, Portuguese. This property is especially common in Lung’ie (Principense). Comparing agglutinated items in the four GGCs not only sheds light on their diachronic development, it also shows the linguistic ...
Tjerk Hagemeijer
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The history of sentence negation in the Gulf of Guinea Creoles [PDF]
Journal of Ibero-Romance Creoles, 2019 We discuss the emergence of the cross-linguistically marked discontinuous/final negation pattern in the four Gulf of Guinea Creoles by taking into account the different linguistic strata and their structural profiles that contributed to the formation ...
Tom Güldemann , Tjerk Hagemeijer
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The Gulf of Guinea Creole Corpora [PDF]
Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2014 Contains fulltext : 132235.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Hagemeijer, Tjerk +5 more
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Studies in Language Companion Series, 2015 This paper argues that creole languages do not face some of the typical problems that have been discussed with respect to syntactic reconstruction of older languages. Creoles often belong to young language families and are therefore expected to show a significant amount of syntactic identity among sister languages.
Tjerk Hagemeijer
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Vowel harmonization in Brazilian and in São Tomé Portuguese and the raising of the pre-stress /e/
Signum: Estudos da Linguagem, 2020 This article draws on the tenets of Variationist Sociolinguistics (LABOV, 1972, 1994, 2001) to examine the influence of the process of vocal harmonisation on raising of the pre-stress / e / in the Brazilian and São Tomé varieties of Portuguese.
Fabiane Rocha
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Journal of Language Contact, 2022 Abstract Four Portuguese-based Creoles are spoken on the islands in the Gulf of Guinea: Santome, Angolar, Lung’Ie, and Fa d’Ambô. These languages are descendants of the Portuguese-based Gulf of Guinea Proto-Creole, which emerged at the beginning of the sixteenth century on São Tomé Island.
Manuele Bandeira +2 more
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Fa d’Ambô (Equatorial Guinea) - Language Snapshot
Language Documentation and Description, 2021 Fa d’Ambô is a Portuguese-lexifier creole language spoken in Annobón Island in the Gulf of Guinea and part of Equatorial Guinea. The language is genetically related to three other creoles spoken in the Gulf of Guinea, in São Tomé and Príncipe: Lungwa ...
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Retention and Attrition of Umbundu in São Tomé and Príncipe
SAGE Open, 2015 A major event in the modern history of São Tomé and Príncipe, located in the Gulf of Guinea, was the recruitment of contracted labor from Angola, Mozambique, and Cape Verde between 1870 and 1960.
Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino
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Creole Prosodic Systems Are Areal, Not Simple. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2021 Yakpo K.
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The Genes of Freedom: Genome-Wide Insights into Marronage, Admixture and Ethnogenesis in the Gulf of Guinea. [PDF]
Genes (Basel), 2021 Almeida J +6 more
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