Robert W. Laub
List of John Benjamins publications for which Robert W. Laub plays a role.
Article
2021 The effects of language ecology on syntactic structure: A look at Kristang and Makista Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2017: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 31, Bucharest, Nicolae, Alexandru and Adina Dragomirescu (eds.), pp. 193–204 | Chapter
Kristang and Makista are two related Portuguese-lexified creoles of southeast Asia. While they are generally mutually intelligible, there are differences between them. A look at the contact languages found in Malacca and Macau can give us ideas as to where these differences come from. Building on… read more