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Brian Hayden – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Pidgins, narrowly defined, are auxiliary languages reserved for communication with linguistic outgroups. Although implicitly recognized as a class of languages by many linguists, there has been little systematic typological investigation of pidgins. This dissertation presents the first large-scale typological study of morphology and functional…
Descriptors: Pidgins, Morphology (Languages), Language Classification, Language Variation
Saldana, Carmen; Smith, Kenny; Kirby, Simon; Culbertson, Jennifer – Language Learning and Development, 2021
Languages exhibit variation at all linguistic levels, from phonology, to the lexicon, to syntax. Importantly, that variation tends to be (at least partially) conditioned on some aspect of the social or linguistic context. When variation is unconditioned, language learners regularize it -- removing some or all variants, or conditioning variant use…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Syntax, Comparative Analysis, Language Variation
Bodomo, Adams; Che, Dewei; Dong, Hongjie – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
The presence of Africans in China has been phenomenal since the late 1990s. In recent years, there has been a dramatic uptick in people from Africa coming to the major cities of China such as Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Macau, Yiwu, Shanghai, and Beijing. They are in the process of building linguistic, cultural, and economic bridges between their source…
Descriptors: Retailing, African Culture, Immigrants, Metropolitan Areas