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Orthography, ideology and the codification of Mauritian Creole
Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 2023Abstract This paper examines the choices made at the levels of Ausbau (‘language by development’, Kloss 1967: 29–30) and Abstand (‘language by distance’, ibid) during the codification phase of Mauritian Creole. Using the document Lortograf Kreol Morisien (Ministry of Education and Human Resources 2011) as its focal point, it studies the ...
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The Mauritian Creole determiner system
2009The process of article incorporation early in the genesis of Mauritian Creole (MC) resulted in the occurrence of a bare nouns in argument positions with ambiguous interpretations between (in)definite, singular, plural and generic. A new determiner system gradually emerged, but MC continues to admit bare nouns in argument positions. It is argued in this
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Degree adverbs in Mauritian Creole
2014no ...
Hassamal, Shrita, Abeillé, Anne
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Plurality and definiteness in Mauritian and Haitian creoles
Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 2019Abstract In addition to plurality, creole plural morphemes impart an additional meaning of definiteness or specificity to the nominal expressions they mark. As of yet, there is no precise characterization either empirical or theoretical of the semantic/pragmatic dimensions they convey.
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New Perspectives on Mauritian Creole and Reunion Creole
In the South-West Indian Ocean, Mauritius and Reunion are part of a group of islands where French-based Creoles are spoken. In spite of their geographical proximity, Mauritian Creole and Reunion Creole are strikingly different in their morphosyntax. The first part of this volume describes some structural properties of their grammars.openaire +1 more source
Choosing a spelling system for Mauritian Creole
Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 2008Mauritian Creole (Kreol) is a French-lexified creole spoken on post-colonial and multilingual Mauritius. Although it is extensively used, it has not been officially standardised. The choice of a given orthography reflects language beliefs and is therefore ideologically loaded.
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The Acquisition of TMA Markers in Mauritian Creole
1990First, two main views on the development of tense and aspect in child language will be presented. The issue whether children can differentiate between tense and aspect at an early age is central to research on temporality in language acquisition.
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KreolMorisienMT: A Dataset for Mauritian Creole Machine Translation
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: AACL-IJCNLP 2022, 2022Raj Dabre, Aneerav Sukhoo
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