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Human Language Origins: Icon for Evolution or a Higher Order? [PDF]

, 2015
In his text Icons of Evolution, Jonathan Wells endeavors to reveal some of the many discrepancies supported as scientific fact in current evolution literature.
Lopiccolo, Dominique
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PIDGIN ENGLISH FUNCTIONING IN NIGERIA

Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2019
The purpose of the article is to reveal the main features of Pidgin English used on the territory of Nigeria. The author analyses the main historical factors, which made the huge influence on the process of formation and origin of Nigerian Pidgin English.
Tatyana Gennadievna Voloshina
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Pidgin afroportugués del Atlántico

Revista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 2012
El presente artículo establece que las lenguas criollas de base ibérica de América (saramacca, papiamento y palenquero) se encuentran relacionadas genealógicamente con los criollos portugueses de África Occidental (caboverdiano, kriol de Guinea-Bissau ...
Mario Portilla Chaves
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HOW TO PREVENT JAVANESE FROM LANGUAGE LOSS [PDF]

, 2012
This paper is going to tell us about how to maintain language in order still exists in society. Language is going to exist if the people still use to communication each to others.
Setiyono , Mas Sulis
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Reconstrucción fonológica del pidgin afroportugués americano: Las consonantes

Revista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 2012
En el presente artículo presenta la reconstrucción de las protoconsonantes de un pidgin afroportugués utilizado en América durante el siglo XVII mediante la aplicación del Método Comparativo.
Mario Portilla Chaves
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Relativistic Lighthouses: The Role of the Binary Pulsar in proving the existence of Gravitational Waves [PDF]

, 2014
This paper discusses the role of the discovery and analysis of the first binary pulsar in settling the long-running quadrupole formula controversy over the status of gravitational waves as a prediction of general relativity.
Kennefick, Daniel
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Patterns of grammaticalization in African languages [PDF]

, 1982
The approach outlined in the present paper is based on observations made with African languages. Although the 1000-odd African languages display a remarkable extent of structural variation, there are certain structures that do not seem to occur in Africa.
Heine, Bernd, Reh, Mechthild
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On the Origins of Pidgin and Creole Languages: An Outline

Styles of Communication, 2009
Pidgin and creole languages are usually the result of contacts between people who do not speak each other’s language. When they meet for different purposes (trade, business, plantation work) they immediately look for a quick means of communication. Thus,
Aleksandra Knapik
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 Quirks of resumption in Cameroon Pidgin English 

Glossa
This squib is a contribution to the typology of ϕ-feature (mis-)matching in resumption, using data from the English-lexifier pidgin spoken in Cameroon. I demonstrate that Cameroon Pidgin English (CPE) has movement and base-generation resumptive pronouns (
Leonel Tadjo Fongang
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The complementizer "say" in Nigerian Pidgin English – traces of language-internal processes or areal features?

Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2016
The paper presents the use of the complementizer say in various types of sentence structures of Nigerian Pidgin English. The data comes from the contemporary language in its written form and is based mostly on transcriptions of Wazobia FM on-air ...
Olga Frąckiewicz
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