Please don’t be mystified by the title of this piece. It is the title of a short newsreel released in the form of a video by the BBC Pidgin Service in 2018. For a video which runs for only a few ...

Immigration judges must determine whether individuals facing deportation who speak dialects of English also understand American English or need interpreters, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Wednesday in ...

Artist Harry Lyons drew Columbia Inn owner Tosh Kaneshiro wearing an “Ain’ no beeg t’ing” button. Kaneshiro was a Dodger fan, and the team struggled to win a World Series. In Hawaii, people from China ...

This paper discusses possible origins of locative for in West African Pidgin Englishes. The development of for is framed componentially, that is, in terms of deriving its constructional meaning from ...