Project
The Expansion of West African Pidgin: Social and Linguistic Factors
West African Pidgin (Pidgin) is a group of related, mutually intelligible varieties that emerged from contact between English and African languages in coastal West Africa.
Project
Word-prosody systems of the Creole languages of the Gulf of Guinea
Creole languages result from extreme linguitic contact between languages with distinct prosodic systems and often do not fit neatly into prototypical linguistic categories.
Publication
“Eish it’s getting really interesting”: borrowed interjections in South African English
Unuabonah, Foluke O. and Mampoi I. Mabena. 2024. “Eish it’s getting really interesting”: borrowed interjections in South African English. Mu...
Publication
Borrowed Swahili discourse-pragmatic features in Kenyan and Tanzanian Englishes
Unuabonah, Foluke Olayinka and Loveluck Philip Muro. 2022. Borrowed Swahili discourse-pragmatic features in Kenyan and Tanzanian Englishes. ...
Publication
Borrowed Discourse-Pragmatic Features in Kenyan English
Muro, Loveluck and Foluke Unuabonah. 2022. Borrowed Discourse-Pragmatic Features in Kenyan English. Language Matters, 53(2), 3–22. https://d...
Publication
Afrikaans discourse-pragmatic features in South African English
Olayinka Unuabonah, Foluke. 2022. Afrikaans discourse-pragmatic features in South African English. Lingua, 103309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j...
Publication
Spanish affixes in the Quechua languages: A multidimensional perspective
Muysken, Pieter. 2012. Spanish affixes in the Quechua languages: A multidimensional perspective. LINGUA, 122 (5). pp. 481-493. DOI: 10.1016/...
Publication
Language contact outcomes as the result of bilingual optimization strategies
Pieter Muysken. 2013. Language contact outcomes as the result of bilingual optimization strategies. Bilingualism – Language and Cognition, 1...
Publication
Exploring Genealogical Blends: The Surinamese Creole Cluster and the Virgin Island Dutch Creole Cluster
van Sluijs, Robbert, Margot van den Berg, and Pieter Muysken. 2016. Exploring Genealogical Blends: The Surinamese Creole Cluster and the Vir...
Project
Multilingual ecologies
Languages change and adapt as they exist in the minds and practices of multilinguals.