Presented at the 4th Symposium on West African Languages, University of Napoli “L’Orientale”, September 21-23 2022. Author: Rachel A. Ojong Diba Abstract There exists a profound disdain for code switching, …
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Language contact or semiotic pools? A speaker-centered view of language differentiation in the Cameroonian Grassfields
Presented at the 4th Symposium on West African Languages, University of Napoli “L’Orientale”, September 21-23 2022. Authors: P. Di Carlo and J. Good. Abstract With more than seventy named languages, …
Social separation and language change in the Cameroonian Grassfields
Presented at the 55th Conference of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (University of Bucharest) by P. Di Carlo, J. Good, and N. Tschonghongei Abstract The Cameroonian Grassfields have long been known …
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Using patterns of semantic convergence as evidence for sociolinguistic reconstruction
Presented at HiSON 2022 (University of Murcia, 2022) by Pierpaolo Di Carlo and Jeff Good. Abstract Societies characterized by high degrees of individual-level multilingualism pose difficult questions for historical reconstruction. …