Cognitive Semantics Against Creole Exceptionalism: A Case Study of Body Part Expressions in Nigerian Pidgin by Kosecki Krzysztof

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Variétés de pidgin nigérian dans « Girls at War » et A Man of the People de Chinua Achebe, Jagua Nana de Cyprian Ekwensi et Sozaboy de Ken Saro-Wiva : questions de traduction de ces lieux de la variation by Catherine Paulin

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Biodiversity through Domestication by Wulf Schiefenhövel

“…It is not widely known that Melanesia became a centre of horticulture and arboriculture about 8,000 years ago: taro (Colocasia esculenta, Cyrtosprema chamissonis, Alocasia macrorrhiza); sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum), a close relative called sayur lilin in Bahasa Indonesia, respectively pitpit in Neomelanesian Pidgin (Saccharum edule) of which the young inflorescence is eaten; yams (Dioscorea bulbifera and possibly other species like D. alata); banana (Musa spp., comprising Australimusa and Eumusa); two or more Setaria species (Setaria palmifolia, Setaria plicata...); beans of the genus Phaseolus; probably Rungia klossii and Abelmoschus manihot (cp. …”
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