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Landscape Review, 1995 The picturesque has been compared to a language. This paper extends the metaphor to pidgins and creoles to make observations about the intermixing of design languages, namely between the conventions of the picturesque and the indigenous environment of ...
Jacky Bowring
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Pidżin zrodzony z żartu? Przypadek języka kraju San Escobar [PDF]
Język. Religia. Tożsamość, 2021 The article analyzes onomastic material from the map of San Escobar, which was created on the Internet, with the intention of mockery, after a slip of the diplomat Witold Waszczykowski, who in January 2017 listed the non-existent state of San Escobar ...
Ewa Badyda
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Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2023 This article proposes to present the issue of insularity in the archipelago of Cape Verde, an African country marked by several centuries of Portuguese colonization, with particular emphasis on the analysis of the interrelation between socio-historical ...
Barbara Hlibowicka-Węglarz
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The Emergence of the Russian-Chinese Pidgin as a Reflection of Language Contacts [PDF]
Гуманитарный вектор, 2020 Scientists have accumulated considerable experience in the study of the concept of “linguistic contacts”. Multidimensionality and multifunctionality of this phenomenon, its research in various fields of scientific knowledge determine the existence of ...
Han Bing
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Tense/Aspect Marking in Arabic-Based Pidgins
Darnioji daugiakalbystė, 2021 The earliest stages of pidgin formation show a preference for analytic and morphologically reduced grammatical constructions relative to their lexifier or substrate languages, where the apparent morphological marking, if found, seems to be fossilized ...
Alshammari Wafi Fhaid
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Spoken and Sign Language Emergence: A Comparison
Languages, 2022 A comparison of emerging signed languages and creole languages provides evidence that, when language is emerging, it prioritizes marking the novelty of information; is readily recursive; favors the manner of action (aspect) over the time of action (tense)
John McWhorter
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Globe, 2016 INVESTIGATING THE USE AND PERCEPTION OF WEST AFRICAN PIDGIN ENGLISH AMONG WEST AFRICAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN NORTHERN CYPRUS This study sought to establish the usage of Pidgin English among University students from three West African countries ...
Adeola A Elega
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Le Pidgin Madam, un nouveau pidgin arabe [PDF]
La linguistique, 2005 This paper presents a new language born in Arabic-speaking countries, out of the contact between Arabic middle-class families and female maids from Sri-Lanka. Our study has been conducted in Lebanon. Thus, the two languages in contact here are Lebanese Arabic (lexifier), and Colloquial Sinhala (substratum).
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The semantics of solidarity and brotherhood in Chinua Achebe's "No longer at ease"
Journal of English Studies, 2000 We intent to shed new light on the role of Pidgin, one of the languages used by Achebe's characters in No Longer at Ease. We suggest that, contrary to what some literary critics have interpreted, Pidgin, far from being the language of triviality or of ...
Mercedes Bengoechea Bartolomé +1 more
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Lugawiyyat, 2021 Language is speech, as Ibn Jinni defined it. This definition goes to the growth of the spoken language in society. It is well known that the spoken language is more developed and used than the written language.
Makhi Ulil Kirom
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