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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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New ways of analysing the history of varieties of English - an acoustic analysis of early pop music recordings from Ghana [PDF]
, 2012 I will present first results of an acoustic analysis of Ghanaian “Highlife” songs from the 1950s to 1960s. My results show that vowel subsystems in the 1950s and 1960s show a different kind of variation than in present-day Ghanaian English.
Schmidt, Sebastian
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Pidgin in Creative Works in English in Cameroon
Darnioji daugiakalbystė, 2017 This study, which deals with code-switching and language choice in multilingual contexts, describes the use of Pidgin in creative works in English in Cameroon, with the focus on the forms that this language takes in the works, the types of characters who
Kouega Jean Paul, Aseh Mildred
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Ini Apel Ni Nya ‘This Here Apple Now' Deictics in the Malay Speech of Southwest Malukan Migrants in the Netherlands1 [PDF]
, 2008 Dialek Melayu yang dipakai para pendatang asal Maluku Selatan di Belanda inimemperlihatkan rangkaian demonstrativa dan endofora yang tidak ditemukandalam bahasa Indonesia baku.
Engelenhoven, A. V. (Aone)
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Multicultural Shakespeare, 2018 In 1974, the Honolulu-based director James Grant Benton wrote and staged Twelf Nite O Wateva!, a Hawaiian pidgin translation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. In Benton’s translation, Malolio (Malvolio) strives to overcome his reliance on pidgin English in
Rhema Hokama
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