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OverviewThis 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Claire Lefebvre (Universite du Quebec a Montreal)Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co Imprint: John Benjamins Publishing Co Volume: 50 Weight: 0.775kg ISBN: 9789027252746ISBN 10: 9027252742 Pages: 386 Publication Date: 22 July 2015 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of Contents1. 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 subjectsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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