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Pidgin Englisch in Nigeria - Nigerian Pidgin English
, 2013 Historische und sprachliche Analyse des Nigrian Pidgin English.
Regal, Andreas
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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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Grammaticalization in Nigerian Pidgin
Ikala: Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura, 2012 Nigerian Pidgin (hereafter NP) has assumed elaborated roles and functions, gaining new grounds in different sociolinguistic domains as a result of its sustained social expansion process.
Eyo Offiong Mensah
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Diversity and Distribution Patterns of Insects in Nigeria: A GBIF-Based Appraisal. [PDF]
Ecol EvolInsect diversity in Nigeria is high, with 5880 species. Diversity differs between biomes. Current diversity represents ~21 of the estimated ‘true’ diversity. ABSTRACT Insects provide essential ecosystem services and are key indicators of ecosystem health.
Obi E +3 more
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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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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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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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An outline of Macau Pidgin Portuguese
, 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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Language of Power: Pidgin in the Colonial Governance of Northern Nigeria
Legon Journal of the Humanities, 2015 Pidgin was indispensable as a working language of colonial governance in Northern Nigeria, epitome of the distinct and continuing role of pidgin as a language of the workplace in West Africa.
Philip Atsu Afeadie
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Pidgin and Creole ecology and evolution
, 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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