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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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An outline of Macau Pidgin Portuguese [PDF]
, 2016 In the early stages of the China trade European traders knew nothing of Chinese, while the Chinese traders were equally ignorant of European languages. It was in this setting that pidgin languages developed for interethnic communication.
Matthews, SJ, Li, KLM
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Pidgin and Creole ecology and evolution [PDF]
, 2020 This chapter outlines a research framework in which pidgin and Creole languages (PCL) are conceptualized as adaptive systems with inherent idiolectal variation, a prerequisite to evolutionary change.
Pui Yiu Szeto +3 more
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English Straight and Tok Pisin Stret: A Case Study from the Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics
Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2020 The framework of cognitive linguistics can be an efficient tool to represent the conceptual scope of meaning extension in reduced lexicons of pidgins and creoles.
Kosecki Krzysztof
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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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China coast pidgin: Texts and contexts [PDF]
, 2010 In this paper we revisit some long-standing questions regarding the origins and structure of China Coast Pidgin (CCP), also known as Chinese Pidgin English.
Smith, Geoff +5 more
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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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Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 1991 In this paper I present an analysts of what remains of a trade language born in the seventeenth century as a consequence of Basque fishing trips in the North Atlantic.
José Ignacio Hualde
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Sport I love with all my heart, Rod, and yacht, and gun [first line] [PDF]
, 1883 strophic [with dance interlude]piano and voiceRespectfully Dedicated to the Champion "Boston Nine"Johns Hopkins University, Levy Sheet Music Collection, Box 027, Item 008Words by Chas. F. Pidgin. Music by Chas. D. Blake.A.B.
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, 1995 Evidence recently unearthed in documentary sources (such as voyage accounts and Hawaiian-language newspapers) has failed to support the theory that the predominant plantation language and lingua franca of Hawaii's polyglot population in the 19th century ...
Julian M. Roberts
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