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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815513903321

Titolo

Noun phrases in Creole languages : a multi-faceted approach / / edited by Marlyse Baptista, Jacqueline Gueron

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2007

ISBN

1-282-15248-3

9786612152481

90-272-9182-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

506 p. : ill

Collana

Creole language library ; ; 31

Classificazione

18.96

Altri autori (Persone)

BaptistaMarlyse

GueronJacqueline

Disciplina

417/.22

Soggetti

Creole dialects - Noun phrase

Creole dialects - Syntax

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Noun phrases in Creole language: an introductory overview / Marlyse Baptsta, Jacqueline Guéron -- Bare nouns and the nominal in Santome / Nélia Alexandre, Tjerk Hagemeijer -- On the syntax and semantics of DP in Cape Verdean Creole / Marlyse Baptista -- Papiamentu and Brazilian Portuguese: a comparative study of bare nominals / Ellen-Petra Kester, Cristina Schmitt -- On the interpretation of bare noun phrases in Guinea-Bissau Portuguese Creole (Kriyol) / Alain Kihm -- Some aspects of NPs in Mindanao Chabacano: structural and historical considerations / Anthony P. Grant -- Bare nouns in Palenquero: a fresh consensus in the making / Armin Schwegler -- Bare nouns in Réunionnais creole / Robert Chaudenson -- The bare NP in lesser Antillean / Karl Gadelii -- Bare NPs and the deficient DPs in Haitian Creole and French: from morphosyntax to referent construal / Anne Zribi-Hertz, Herby Glaude -- Implicit determination and plural / Viviane Déprez -- Bare nouns and articles in Sranan / Adrienne Bruyn -- Aspects of the syntax and semantics of bare nouns in Jamican creole / Michele M. Stewart -- NPs in aspectual Be constructions in African American English / Lisa Green -- Bare nouns in African American English (AAE) / Arthur K. Spears -- Bare nouns in Berbice Dutch Creole



/ Silvia Kouwenberg -- Properties of noun phrases in Creole languages: a synthetic comparative exposition / Marlyse Baptista -- Functional deficiency, ellipsis or innovation in Creole languages? a post face / Marlyse Baptsita, Jaqueline Guéron.

Sommario/riassunto

In this Postface, one of our primary objectives as editors, is to weave together into a coherent whole the insights and analyses of our contributors. We aim to show how the chapters in the volume complement each other, highlighting both similarities and differences in the patterns of the nominal system of various creole languages. A second objective is to try to formulate some hypotheses regarding the use of bare nouns in creole languages and the role of Universal Grammar in shaping the linguistic properties of the creoles under study. To the degree that creole bare nouns have common properties, we try to identify the grammatical options that UG makes available to natural languages in the domain of the Noun Phrase.