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Individual Contributions to the Documentation and Expansion of the Colonial Linguistic Landscape of 19th Century North and West Africa

Cadernos de Linguística
This paper details the spread of two pidgins in North and West Africa in the 19th century. It highlights the contributions of two individuals, the US State Department envoy, William Brown Hodgson and the French colonialist, Louis Faidherbe. Although the
Joanna Nolan
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THE JAMAICAN VARIANT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN THE POST-CREOLE CONTINUUM

Вестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки, 2017
Today the Jamaican variant of English language constitutes a unique linguistic phenomenon, which is currently undergoing many changes arising from its relatively recent appearance.
A. A. Bushmanov, P. J. Mitchell
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[Review of] Milton Murayama. All I Asking For Is My Body [PDF]

, 1989
In little over a decade this short novel has become a classic, developing a dedicated following, not only in Asian American communities and literature programs, but also in traditional literature programs alongside books such as Huckleberry Finn where ...
Solberg, S. E.
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The transportation of embedded inversion in world Englishes

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract The present study uses private correspondence to investigate the use of embedded inversion on both sides of the Atlantic as an illustration of the spread of spoken/conversational features through writing. The paper discusses the use of embedded inversion in Irish English (IrE) and briefly compares its occurrence in other varieties of English ...
Carolina P. Amador‐Moreno
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Eliminating unpredictable variation through iterated learning [PDF]

, 2010
Human languages may be shaped not only by the (individual psychological) processes of language acquisition, but also by population-level processes arising from repeated language learning and use.
Smith, Kenny, Wonnacott, Elizabeth
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Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics and World Englishes

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract The world Englishes perspective, especially as expressed within Kachru's formulation of the Inner, Outer and Expanding Circles of Englishes, provides a flexible and coherent model of the historical spread of English. While the model has had a profound influence on various subfields of applied linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics ...
Andrew Moody
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Some Introductory Notes on the Development and Characteristics of Sabah Malay [PDF]

, 2011
This is a preliminary description of the Malay variety used as a lingua franca in the Malaysian state of Sabah at the northernmost top of Borneo. The paper discusses a number of common linguistic features that distinguish Sabah Malay from other Malay ...
Jing Cheng (41407), Lawrence P Kane (98667)   +1 more
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Language machines: Toward a linguistic anthropology of large language models

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract Large language models (LLMs) challenge long‐standing assumptions in linguistics and linguistic anthropology by generating human‐like language without relying on rule‐based structures. This introduction to the special issue Language Machines calls for renewed engagement with LLMs as socially embedded language technologies.
Siri Lamoureaux, Michael Castelle, Anna Weichselbraun   +2 more
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Nigerian English research: Developments and directions

World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 182-198, March 2026.
Abstract This article describes the progress made by scholars over a period of more than five decades in the field of Nigerian English studies. It will thus serve as a useful tool for those researching in this field; and apparently there has been no such attempt to date to review the research landscape of Nigerian English in order to show its key ...
David Jowitt, Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi
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Atlantic features in Asian varieties of Creole Portuguese

Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2009
This article identifies five Atlantic features in Asian varieties of Creole Portuguese. These reflect common substrate influence from Niger-Congo languages converging with Portuguese forms.
John Holm
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