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Functional Categories in Three Atlantic Creoles

Claire Lefebvre

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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 interested in syntactic categories and more specifically in functional categories, to creolists and to researchers interested in language contact.

Pages: 386

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Release: July 22, 2015

ISBN: 9027252742

ISBN 13: 9789027252746

Functional Categories in Three Atlantic Creoles

Claire Lefebvre

1/5 ( ratings)

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 interested in syntactic categories and more specifically in functional categories, to creolists and to researchers interested in language contact.

Pages: 386

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Release: July 22, 2015

ISBN: 9027252742

ISBN 13: 9789027252746

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