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Stanwood, Ryo – Language Sciences, 1997
This study presents evidence collected from basilectal texts that the natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) mental predicates "think, know, want, feel, say, see, hear" have clear lexical equivalents in Hawaii Creole English (HCE), and that these HCE predicates occur, with minor qualification, in the syntactic configurations predicted by…
Descriptors: Creoles, Discourse Analysis, English, Language Patterns

Owens, Jonathan – Language Sciences, 1998
Discussion of the research methodology of theoretical linguistics argues that linguists studying a small, unrepresentative set of languages defining the content of sub-disciplines in linguistics are engaging in an unarticulated alliance, and that the choice of languages for study threatens the validity of the research. This is illustrated through…
Descriptors: Creoles, Databases, Language Patterns, Language Research