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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Contact languages"”.
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Gender variation in Gulf Pidgin Arabic
… history of pidgins and creoles, many documented contact languages are European-based ones because they arose as a direct result of European colonial expansion between the sixteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. However, contact languages are developing entirely outside the …
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Walter Spies, tourist art and Balinese art in inter-war colonial Bali
… approach, based around the ideas of contact, contact languages and influence. These are used to explain the development of new artistic forms, as well as the discourse and processes which both moulded and reflected them.</p> <p>The study contributes to knowledge through the fresh …
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Morphosyntactic variation and contact: A comparative view from Daco-Romance
… in synchrony and to highlight how language contact influenced their evolution. After their split around the tenth century, Istro-Romanian has been in contact with Croatian, Aromanian – with Greek and Albanian, and Megleno-Romanian – with South Slavonic and Greek. For example, similarly to …
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Putting PPs into order - Understanding prepositionality in the predominantly postpositional language Lule Sami
… Sami may be relevant to the study of related languages as well, as there appear to be many similarities with other Sami languages and Finnic languages. Furthermore, in identifying factors related to semantics and information structure which may influence word order in the PP, and in seeking to …
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Nigerian Pidgin English in Cape Town: exploring speakers’ attitudes and use in diaspora
… despite living far away from home where other languages exist. Also, the analysis revealed that all the participants considered the language to be an important aspect of their Nigerian identity and togetherness in the diaspora. This indicates a significant difference between those in the …