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- Embedding Papiamentu in Mixed Language Debate
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Embedding Papiamentu in the Mixed Language Debate
descends from Upper Guinea Portuguese Creole (a term covering the sister varieties
of the Cape Verde Islands and Guinea-Bissau and Casamance), speakers of
which arrived on Curaçao in the second half of the 17th century, subsequently
shi/ed their basic content vocabulary towards Spanish, but maintained the original
morphosyntax. .is scenario raises the question of whether, in addition to
being a creole, Papiamentu can be analyzed as a so-called mixed (or intertwined)
language. .e present paper positively answers this question by drawing parallels
between (the emergence of) Papiamentu and recognized mixed languages.
- All authors
- Jacobs, B.
- Date
- 2012
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 52 - 82