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Attributive possession in 19th century Mauritian Creole
Linguistik Online, 2016 The paper examines the attributive possessive structures attested in 19th century Mauritian Creole. It is first shown that these include a construction with the preposition pou ‘for’, which has not been mentioned in the literature.
Andrei Avram
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Philip Baker and the Making of Mauritian Creole [PDF]
Études Créoles, 2017 Philanthropy brought Philip Baker to Mauritius in the 1960s, but not much is known about him and his work during that troubled period of the country’s transition from colony to sovereignty.
Vinesh Y. Hookoomsing
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Conservation Science and Practice, 2021 Mauritius is reported to have the highest marine species endemism in the Western Indian Ocean faunal Province but the status of these species has not been evaluated. To address this knowledge gap, 119 reef sites were sampled to evaluate populations of 16
Tim McClanahan +4 more
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, 1982 "Possibly all change processes partake of the characteristics of creolization, with the particular historical circumstances making the crucial, but essentially quantitative, difference." (Hoenigswald 1971:479). If Hoenigswald's hypothesis proves to be correct, the implication is that the study of Creole languages has much to offer the theorist of ...
Sayers, Coral
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Elevated serum uric acid is a risk factor for progression to prediabetes in Japanese women: A 5-year retrospective chort study. [PDF]
J Diabetes Investig, 2023 In women, restricted cubic spline analysis revealed the dose–response relationship between serum uric acid and progression to prediabetes. However, this similar relationship was not statistically significant for men. ABSTRACT Aims/Introduction The association between serum uric acid (SUA) levels and prediabetes risk remains poorly understood.
Shimodaira M, Minemura Y, Nakayama T.
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How are polar interrogatives in Mauritian Creole formed?
Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of AmericaMauritian Creole is known to form polar questions in two ways: by using the utterance-initial particle eski, derived from French est-ce que 'is it the case that', or by applying a rising intonation to the declarative sentence. This paper asks the question whether both question forms are syntactically interrogative sentences or instead have different ...
Angelika Kiss +2 more
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Les comparatifs d’inégalité en mauricien
Études Créoles, 2021 Comparative adverbs can be classified into two major types: adverbs of equality ‘as much / many as’ and adverbs of inequality. The latter are divided into two sub-types: the comparative of superiority ‘more’ and the comparative of inferiority ‘less ...
Shrita Hassamal
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Mieux comprendre l’émergence de nouvelles langues
TIPA. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage, 2021 This contribution aims at a better understanding of the emergence of creole languages by examining the role of convergence in the evolution of the perfect marker (f)in/’n in Mauritian and Seychelles Creoles.
Sibylle Kriegel
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La créolistique : arguments pour une approche sociohistorique
Contextes et Didactiques, 2021 Creole languages belong to the more general category of contact languages, which also includes pidgins. The aim of this article is to determine to what extent it is possible to define the object of creolistics as a specific linguistic field of research ...
Jean-Philippe Watbled
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Trumping the Ethnic Card: How Tourism Entrepreneurs on Rodrigues tackled the 2008 Financial Crisis [PDF]
Island Studies Journal, 2012 The 2008 global financial crisis had significant repercussions on small island states and territories. This article discusses the efforts of tourism entrepreneurs from Rodrigues, a subnational island jurisdiction and a de¬pendency of the Republic of ...
Carsten Wergin
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