Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages
Papers from the University of Chicago Conference on Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages
Published on 28. October 1993
Book
Hardback
329 pages
978-90-272-5233-3 (ISBN)
Description
The volume has as its topic, not only the types of formal constructions and devices which creole languages syntactically utilize to achieve constituent focus, but also, in a much broader sense, the many other phenomena and processes found in these languages which serve to highlight sentence-level elements.
The book is organized into five sections: 1. verb focus, predicate clefting and predicate doubling; 2. focus and anti-focus; 3. focus and pronominals; 4. discourse patterning; 5. grammatical relations.
The book is organized into five sections: 1. verb focus, predicate clefting and predicate doubling; 2. focus and anti-focus; 3. focus and pronominals; 4. discourse patterning; 5. grammatical relations.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
580 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-5233-3 (9789027252333)
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Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages
Papers from the University of Chicago Conference on Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages
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Content
1. Acknowledgements; 2. Contents; 3. Introduction: Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages (by Byrne, Francis); 4. 1. Verb Focus, predicate Clefting and Predicate Doubling; 5. Verb focus in the Typology of Kwa/Kru and Haitian (by Manfredi, Victor); 6. The Question of Predicate Clefting in the Indian Ocean Creoles (by Seuren, Pieter A.M.); 7. Two Types of predicate Doubling Adverbs in Haitian Creole (by Lefebvre, Claire); 8. 2. Focus and anti-focus; 9. Scope of Negation and Focus in Gullah (by Mufwene, Salikoko S.); 10. Focus in Tok Pisin (by Sankoff, Gillian); 11. What is it that you said? A study of Obligatory Focalization in Two Creoles and Beyond (by Kihm, Alain); 12. Anti-Focus in Yor*bss: Some Implications for Creoles (by Oyelaran, Olasope O.); 13. 3. Focus and Pronominals; 14. Subject Focus and Pronouns (by Bickerton, Derek); 15. Focus, Emphasis and Pronominals in Saramaccan (by Byrne, Francis); 16. 4. Discourse Patterning; 17. Focus, Topic Particles and Discourse Markers in the Belizean Creole Continuum (by Escure, Genevieve); 18. Foregrounding and Backgrounding in Haitian Creole Discourse (by Spears, Arthur K.); 19. 5. Grammatical Relations; 20. Expletives in Double-Object Constructions in Haitian Creole (by Lumsden, John S.); 21. Reflexives of Ibero-Romance Reflexive Clitic + Verb Combinations in Papiamentu: Thematic Grids and Grammatical Relations (by Muysken, Pieter); 22. Author Index; 23. Language Index; 24. Subject Index