Maria Mazzoli
List of John Benjamins publications for which Maria Mazzoli plays a role.
Articles
2021 The ideological debate on Naijá and its use in education English World-Wide 42:3, pp. 299–323 | Article
Naijá (also known as Nigerian Pidgin) is an extended pidgin with millions of speakers in Nigeria, and it is also a creole since some communities use it as a first language (Faraclas 2013; Mazzoli 2017). It is a common lingua franca in former English colonies in West Africa and has potential for… read more
2015 Complexity in gradience: The serial verb take in Nigerian Pidgin New Directions in Grammaticalization Research, Smith, Andrew D.M., Graeme Trousdale and Richard Waltereit (eds.), pp. 231–260 | Article
In this paper I will demonstrate how a series of micro changes are related within the synchronic gradience of the item take in Western metropolitan varieties of Nigerian Pidgin (NigP). I will show that take functions as a main verb, as an instrumental serial verb and as an incipient modal verb.… read more