Functional categories in three Atlantic creoles : Saramaccan, Haitian and Papiamentu
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Functional categories in three Atlantic creoles : Saramaccan, Haitian and Papiamentu
(Creole language library, 50)
John Benjamins, c2015
- : HB
Available at 4 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
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  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
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  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
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  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book is about the functional categories of three Caribbean creoles: Saramaccan, Haitian Creole and Papiamentu with two specific goals. The first one is to evaluate the respective contribution of the source languages to the functional categories of these three creoles. The second is to evaluate the degree of similarity/dissimilarity of the functional categories across these creoles. This study is cast within the relabeling-based account of creole genesis. Several lexical items discussed in this book may fulfill more than one grammatical function thus raising the issue of multifuctionality. No such in-depth comparative work of these three creoles with their source languages and of the three creoles among themselves is available elsewhere in the literature. This book is addressed to linguists (including Master and PhD students) interested in syntactic categories and more specifically in functional categories, to creolists and to researchers interested in language contact.
Table of Contents
- 1. Preface
- 2. List of abbreviations
- 3. Chapter 1. Introduction (by Lefebvre, Claire)
- 4. Chapter 2. The nominal structures of Saramaccan, Fongbe and English with reference to Haitian Creole (by Lefebvre, Claire)
- 5. Chapter 3. Coordinating constructions in Fongbe with reference to Haitian Creole (by Lefebvre, Claire)
- 6. Chapter 4. The multifunctionality of Saramaccan taa (by Lefebvre, Claire)
- 7. Chapter 5. On the properties of Saramaccan fu (by Lefebvre, Claire)
- 8. Chapter 6. The multiple facets of Papiamentu ku (by Lefebvre, Claire)
- 9. Chapter 7. On the properties of Papiamentu pa (by Lefebvre, Claire)
- 10. Chapter 8. A new analysis of the Papiamentu clause structure (by Kouwenberg, Silvia)
- 11. Chapter 9. The properties of functional categories in the three creoles (by Lefebvre, Claire)
- 12. Chapter 10. Conclusion (by Lefebvre, Claire)
- 13. References
- 14. Index of authors
- 15. Index of subjects
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