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  1. According to Keesing (1988), they originated in trade and whaling settings and were adopted as lingua francas on the plantations (but cf. Baker, 1993), before they evolved into urban vernaculars and expanded their functions and structures.

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  2. Nov 17, 2011 · The transition from jargon to stable pidgin coincides with the formation of a language community and the emergence of socially accepted norms, which occurs when none of the languages in a heterogeneous milieu serves as a target language.

  3. The Spanish language arrived in Latin America as a tool of Iberian colonization. Indigenous languages struggled to survive under the implacable presence of an imperial tongue serving not only to make all subjects part of the Spanish Empire but also, and primarily, as a mechanism to evangelize a population considered by the conquistadors ...

  4. Jan 1, 2013 · It also shows how some questions have been shaped by the manifold evolution of linguistics itself since the nineteenth century, including variation on what counts as language, and by...

  5. Latin America itself gradually acquired a geo-graphic defi nition, at least in the United States: it comprised all parts of the New World south of Anglophone North America, the areas where Romance languages are spoken as dominant vernaculars.

  6. Nov 15, 2016 · Roman ideas but modified them in the context of the Latin language. Aelius Donatus, Honoratus and others compiled the Latin grammar Ars Grammatica in the early Christian era, and this is...

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  8. Mar 25, 2020 · While the study of language change and etymology can be traced back to ancient societies in the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and Asia, a number of important methodological approaches emerged in...

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