Recent Development in Creole Studies
1st Edition
Published on 6. February 2013
234 pages
978-3-11-094831-8 (ISBN)
Description
This volume provides the reader with an update on the ongoing research in creole studies. The papers represent several lines of research in the study of Creole languages. Central issues in phonology, semantics, lexicon and syntax are addressed in various creole languages. These include Cape Verdean Creole, Haitian Creole, Lesser Antillean Creoles, Kriol, Saramaccan, and Sranan.
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Dany Adone
Recent Development in Creole Studies
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Contents: Dany Adone, Introduction. - Jean-Robert Cadely, Nasality in Haitian Creole. - Norval Smith, Evidence for Recursive Syllable Structures in Aluku and Sranan. - John S. Lumsden, Relexification, Reversed Interference, Double Signals and the Organization of the Mental Lexicon. - Richard Larson, Event Description in Fongbe and Haitian Creole. - Dany Adone, Restricted Verb Movement in Ngukurr Kriol. - Marlyse Baptista, Licensing Conditions on Cliticization in Cape Verdean Creole. - Viviane Deprez, Haitian Creole: A Copula, a Pronoun, Both or Neither? On the Double Life of a Functional Head. - Karl Erland Gadelii, Some Un-French Properties of Lesser Antillean Grammar. - Alain Kihm, Haitian Construct State Nominals: a Creole Contribution to the Theory of Genitive Phrases. - Tonjes Veenstra, Menage a Trois: How Promiscuous are Objects in Resultatives?
