Cefas Van Rossem

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Is the choice for an etymology based orthography related to Referee design?

The language in eighteenth century Virgin Islands Dutch Creole manuscripts at first sight differs from the spoken variety of this language which was recorded in the twentieth century. A closer...

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Can someone help me to find literature about the required chronological distance between texts to do reliable diachronic linguistic research?

In my corpus of Dutch Creole texts there are several eighteenth century variants of the same text. However, the chronological distance between the oldest and the youngest variants is only about...

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Can you help me with examples of missionary varieties of (Creole) languages, like eighteenth century VI Dutch Creole or Church Sranan of Suriname?

Eighteenth century Dutch Creole texts (Danish Antilles, today's US Virgin Islands) may look somewhat articifial, but they show a bulk of linguistic elements which can be attributed as Auditor...

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