Hannah Davidson
List of John Benjamins publications in which Hannah Davidson is involved.
Journal
ISSN 0920-9034 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9870
Articles
2025 Chapter 8. Language contact in writing: Exploring the linguistic landscape of Mauritius New Perspectives on Mauritian Creole and Reunion Creole: Standardization, grammar and language use, Alleesaib, Muhsina and Julie Lefort (eds.), pp. 229–259 | Chapter
Building on Bosquet-Ballah’s (2015) work, this small-scale study takes both a quantitative and qualitative approach to the linguistic landscape of Mauritius to investigate whether place affects the languages present. Sample areas in Port Louis, the capital, Ebene, a newly-developed business… read more
2025 Switching or selecting? Competing and/or complementary perspectives on discourse markers in multilingual conversations Multilingualism and Language Contact in Asia-Pacific, Satyanath, Shobha (ed.), pp. 112–141 | Article
Discourse Markers (DMs) are particularly susceptible to borrowing between languages and several approaches can provide a framework to analyse speech in multilingual contexts. This paper examines a structural and a pragmatic-functional perspective: Myers-Scotton’s Matrix Language Frame (MLF)… read more
2025 Eski fitir-la touzour insertin? Is the future still uncertain? The acceptability of Mauritian Creole’s elusive VA marker in future contexts Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages: Online-First Articles | Article
Most research regarding Mauritian Creole future marking was carried out in the 1990s and assumed differences in ‘certainty’ dictated the choice of future marker (Baker 1993; Hazaël-Massieux 1993; Touchard & Véronique 1993). The consensus was that the two main markers, POU and VA, were used for… read more