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Afro-Peruvian Spanish: Spanish slavery and the legacy of Spanish Creoles
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Sessarego, Sandro

The present work not only contributes to shedding light on the linguistic and socio-historical origins of Afro-Peruvian Spanish, it also helps clarify the controversial puzzle concerning the genesis of Spanish creoles in the Americas in a broader sense. In order to provide a more concrete answer to the questions raised by McWhorter’s book on The Missing Spanish Creoles, the current study has …

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9789027252753
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200
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Creole Language Library
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Machine translation :a view from the lexicon
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Dorr, Bonnie Jean.

"Bonnie Jean Dorr is Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Maryland.""This book describes a novel, cross-linguistic approach to machine translation that solves certain classes of syntactic and lexical divergences by means of a lexical conceptual structure that can be composed and decomposed in language-specific ways. This approach allows the translator to o…

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0262290839
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1 online resource (xx, 432 pages) :illustrations.
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Differential Object Marking in Romance : The third wave
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KABATEK,JohannesOBRIST,PhilippWALL,Albert

After a “first wave” of traditional studies on prepositional accusatives and a “second wave” exploring the typological dimensions of Differential Object Marking in Bossong’s footsteps, a new line of research is currently introducing new methods, deepening the level of analysis, and offering new perspectives on the issue. This volume presents 11 innovative, original contributions repre…

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9783110716207
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800 DIF
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A grammar of Yauyos Quechua
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Shimelman, Aviva

This book presents a synchronic grammar of the southern dialects of Yauyos, an extremely endangered Quechuan language spoken in the Peruvian Andes. As the language is highly synthetic, the grammar focuses principally on morphology; a longer section is dedicated to the language's unusual evidential system. The grammar's 1400 examples are drawn from a 24-hour corpus of transcribed recordings coll…

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