Creoles in Education: An appraisal of current programs and projects
Edited by Bettina Migge, Isabelle Léglise and Angela Bartens
[Creole Language Library, 36] 2010. vii, 356 pp.
Angela Bartens
List of John Benjamins publications for which Angela Bartens plays a role.
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Subjects Applied linguistics | Creole studies | Language teaching
Articles
2020 Chapter 11. New Mochica and the challenge of reviving an extinct language Variation and Evolution: Aspects of language contact and contrast across the Spanish-speaking world, Sessarego, Sandro, Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana and Adrián Rodríguez-Riccelli (eds.), pp. 253–274 | Chapter
In this paper, we discuss New Mochica as an example of language revival. New Mochica is definitely not the Mochica of the colonial or republican epoch of present-day Peru and the continuity of an already extinct language can be questioned. Van Coetsem’s (1988, 2000) framework of language contact… read more
2011 Substrate features in Nicaraguan, Providence and San Andrés Creole Englishes: A comparison with Twi Creoles, their Substrates, and Language Typology, Lefebvre, Claire (ed.), pp. 201–224 | Article
This paper investigates the influence of the substrate as represented by the Kwa language Twi on the English-based creoles spoken on San Andrés and Old Providence (Colombia) and on the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua. Thirty phonological, morphosyntactic and lexical features were selected for scrutiny.… read more
2010 Creoles in education: A discussion of pertinent issues Creoles in Education: An appraisal of current programs and projects, Migge, Bettina, Isabelle Léglise and Angela Bartens (eds.), pp. 1–30 | Article
This paper reviews and critically assesses issues that pertain to the implementation of Creole languages in education. We review historical, social and political issues that have hindered the introduction of most of these contact languages in the educational domain as well as the factors that have… read more
2008 Explaining Kabuverdianu nominal plural formation Language Complexity: Typology, contact, change, Miestamo, Matti, Kaius Sinnemäki and Fred Karlsson (eds.), pp. 305–320 | Article
In this study, we apply the morphosyntactic 4-M model developed by Myers-Scotton and Jake (2000a, b) to data from Kabuverdianu or Cape Verdean Creole Portuguese (CVC) which has been less strongly restructured than so-called prototypical creoles.1 We focus on nominal plural marking where CVC… read more
2006 Towards a description of Spanish and Italian diminutives within the Natural Semantic Metalanguage framework Semantic Primes and Universal Grammar: Empirical evidence from the Romance languages, Peeters, Bert (ed.), pp. 331–360 | Article
2000 Notes on Componential Diffusion in the Genesis of the Kabuverdianu Cluster Language Change and Language Contact in Pidgins and Creoles, McWhorter, John H. (ed.), pp. 35 ff. | Article
1997 Review of Couto (1994): O crioulo português da Guiné-Bissau Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 12:1, pp. 153–158 | Review