New paths of contact and variation: background and design for a future study of Capeverdean in New England

The main goal of this paper is to describe the case of morphosyntactic variation concerning the markers for the habitual and the progressive in Capeverdean, a Portuguese-based creole, the mother tongue of virtually all inhabitants of the Republic of Cabo Verde (around 500,000) and of most Cabo Verde...

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Main Author: Fernanda Pratas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação de Crioulos de Base Lexical Portuguesa e Espanhola 2019-07-01
Series:Journal of Ibero-Romance Creoles
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Online Access:http://www.acblpe.com/revista/volume-9-2019/new-paths-of-contact-and-variation