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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821374503321

Titolo

Focus and grammatical relations in creole languages / / editors, Francis Byrne, Donald Winford

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : J. Benjamins, , 1993

ISBN

1-283-32807-0

9786613328076

90-272-7694-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 pages)

Collana

Creole language library, , 0920-9026 ; ; v. 12

Altri autori (Persone)

ByrneFrancis

WinfordDonald

Disciplina

417/.22

Soggetti

Creole dialects - Grammar

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

section 1. Verb focus, predicate clefting and predicate doubling -- section 2. Focus and anti-focus -- section 3. Focus and pronominals -- section 4. Discourse patterning -- section 5. Grammatical relations.

Sommario/riassunto

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.