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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815106403321

Titolo

Recent development in Creole studies / / editor, Dany Adone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tübingen : , : M. Niemeyer, , 2003

ISBN

3-11-094831-1

Edizione

[Reprint 2012]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Linguistische Arbeiten, , 0344-6727 ; ; 472

Altri autori (Persone)

AdoneDany

Disciplina

242

Soggetti

Creole dialects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Recent Development in Creole Studies / Adone, Dany -- Nasality in Haitian Creole / Cadely, Jean-Robert -- Evidence for Recursive Syllable Structures in Aluku and Sranan / Smith, Nerval -- Relexification, Reversed Interference, Double Signals and the Organization of the Mental Lexicon / Lumsden, John S. -- Event Descriptions in Fòn and Haitian Creole / Larson, Richard Κ. -- Restricted Verb Movement in Ngukurr Kriol / Adone, Dany -- Licensing Conditions on Cliticization in Cape Verdean Creole / Baptista, Marlyse -- Haitian Creole Se: A Copula, a Pronoun, Both or Neither? On the Double Life of a Functional Head / Déprez, Viviane -- Some un-French Properties of Lesser Antillean Grammar / Gadelii, Karl Erland -- Haitian Construct State Nominals: A Creole Contribution to the Theory of Genitive Phrases / Kihm, Alain -- Menage à Trois: How Promiscuous are Objects in Resultatives? / Veenstra, Tonjes -- Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

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.