Was it in "Mary Poppins" or "The Sound of Music" that Julie Andrews told us that a spoonful of honey helps the medicine go down? In the case of Bastard Tongues -- an often highly technical account of ...

This news release is available in German. A new large-scale database and atlas of key structural properties of mixed languages from the Americas, Africa and Asia-Pacific has been published by ...

IN AN airy first-floor study, Eldred Jones, who is 93, takes a break from his Braille Bible to talk about how he first left Sierra Leone to study at Oxford. Later he became principal of west Africa’s ...

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A large-scale study of languages shows that the grammar of creoles - which emerged in multilingual situations of extreme social upheaval, like colonial slaveries - are composed from the grammars of ...

Anthropological Linguistics, a quarterly journal founded in 1959, provides a forum for the full range of scholarly study of the languages and cultures of the peoples of the world, especially the ...

This paper discusses possible origins of locative for in West African Pidgin Englishes. The development of for is framed componentially, that is, in terms of deriving its constructional meaning from ...

When groups of people who speak different languages come together, they sometimes inadvertently create a new one, combining bits of each into something everyone can use to communicate easily.

Da kine word/frayze/turm uv da day: manini, pake (mah-nee-nee, pah-kay) ADVERTISING Da kine word/frayze/turm uv da day: manini, pake (mah-nee-nee, pah-kay) “Vanna, can I borrow a word?” Modern day ...

<h1>Proud of Our Pidgin: The Newest Language in the U.S. Census</h1> <p>Pau. I stared hard at the word, written in Magic Marker on colored cardstock and tacked up on ...

KAHULUI — The Maui Police Department is using Hawaii’s creole language and some humor to get motorists to slow down, with signs like, “Eh slow down. No drive like one clown.” Traffic Commander Lt.