Nicolas Quint

List of John Benjamins publications in which Nicolas Quint is involved.

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Approaches to Variation in Creole Studies

Edited by Isabelle Léglise, Bettina Migge and Nicolas Quint

Special issue of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 36:1 (2021) v, 219 pp.

Léglise, Isabelle, Bettina Migge and Nicolas Quint 2021 Introduction Approaches to Variation in Creole Studies, Léglise, Isabelle, Bettina Migge and Nicolas Quint (eds.), pp. 1–11 | Introduction

Quint, Nicolas 2018 An assessment of the Arabic lexical contribution to contemporary spoken Koalib Arabic in Contact, Manfredi, Stefano and Mauro Tosco (eds.), pp. 189–205 | Chapter

The present paper deals with the lexical contribution of Arabic, the dominant language of Sudan, to Koalib, a Kordofanian language traditionally spoken in the northeastern part of the Nuba Mountains (Southern Kordofan, central Sudan). The study is based on a corpus of 400 Koalib items borrowed from… read more

Quint, Nicolas 2011 Review of Maurer (2009): Principense: Grammar, texts, and vocabulary of the Afro-Portuguese creole of the island of Príncipe, Gulf of Guinea Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 26:2, pp. 411–414 | Review

Quint, Nicolas 2010 Benefactive and malefactive verb extensions in the Koalib very system Benefactives and Malefactives: Typological perspectives and case studies, Zúñiga, Fernando and Seppo Kittilä (eds.), pp. 295–316 | Article

In Koalib (Niger-Congo, Kordofanian branch, Heiban family), a basic verb can give rise to several verb extensions (VE), among which a benefactive and a malefactive. Section one deals with the main derivational characteristics (affixation, tonology, productivity, valency) of both VE. Section two… read more