grammaticalization

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), thus starting to shift the focus away from the traditionally dominant structural and historical research …

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 of spoken discourse, this article sets out to offer a preliminary insight into a category of elements that, to …