BIC SubjectsLinguistics/Esperanto

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Esperanto – Lingua Franca and Language Community

Sabine Fiedler and Cyril Robert Brosch

This book addresses a fascinating topic – a constructed language that has turned from a project into a fully-fledged language used by some of its speakers on a daily basis. Based on extensive fieldwork, this book provides rare and profound insights into the use of Esperanto in a large number of… read more

[Studies in World Language Problems, 10] 2022. xx, 429 pp. | open access

The Syntax and Semantics of a Determiner System: A case study of Mauritian creole

Diana Guillemin

Within the framework of Chomsky’s Minimalism and Formal Semantics, this work documents the development of the Mauritian Creole (MC) determiner system from the mid 18th century to the present. Guillemin proposes that the loss of the French quantificational determiners, which agglutinated to nouns,… read more

[Creole Language Library, 38] 2011. xviii, 310 pp.