Publications

The Role of Language Contact in the Development of Three Mauritian Pragmatic Markers

Although the last few years have seen an increased interest in the communicative power of Creoles (cf. Migge, 2020; Rickford, 2019), …
Hannah Davidson, Sandra Paoli

Multiple Methods for Exploring TMA Marking in a Fieldwork Setting: Mauritian Creole, a Case Study

No single test is robust or exhaustive enough to accurately establish the meaning of tense, mood and aspect (TMA) markers. This article …
Hannah Davidson

Pragmatic markers and verba dicendi: An investigation of Mauritian Creole

Offering a detailed investigation of three Mauritian Creole pragmatic markers based on one of the verba dicendi, dir ‘say’, in a corpus …
Sandra Paoli, Hannah Davidson

The evolution of the (in)definite future markers POU and VA in 20th century Mauritian Creole

Following a series of articles about the status of Mauritian’s future markers in the 1993 edition of Etudes Créoles (Baker 1993; …
Hannah Davidson

The role of French in the Linguistic Landscape of the German-speaking Community of Belgium

This study investigates the Linguistic Landscape (LL) within the German-speaking Community of Belgium with a focus on the role of …
Hannah Davidson