Pidgin and Creole tense-mood-aspect systems / / editor, John Victor Singler

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 1990
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 pages)
• Disciplina: 417/.22
• Soggetto topico: Pidgin languages - Verb; Creole dialects - Verb
• Altri autori: SinglerJohn Victor
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: PIDGIN AND CREOLE TENSE-MOOD-ASPECT SYSTEMS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Introduction: Pidgins and Creoles and Tense-Mood-Aspect; Notes; References; On the Adequacy of Natural Languages: I. The Development of Tense; 0. The Association of Language with Intelligence; 1. Strategies for Studying the Relations of Language and Thought; 2. Bilingual Idiolects Vs. Pidgin Grammars; 3. Time Relations in Pidgin Grammars; 4. The Development of Tense in Neo-Melanesian; 5. The Selection of Tense Markers in Pitcairnese; 6. The Past Tense in Hawaiian Creole ; 7. The Problem of What Data for What Grammar 8. The Tense System of Hawaiian Creole in Actual Use; 9. Phonological Condensation of the Tense System; 10. The Development of Tense in Other Creoles; 11. On the ""Adequacy"" of Creoles; 12. The Treatment of Tense in English Dialects; Notes; References; Papiamentu Tense-Aspect, With Special Attention to Discourse; 1. Introduction; 2. The Semantics of Tense, Aspect, and Modality; 2.1 Aspect vs. Tense; 2.2 Lexical Aspect and Grammatical Aspect; 3. The Basic Temporal System; 3.1 Inventory of Temporal Morphemes; 3.2 Tense-Aspect Morphemes ; 3.3 Lexical and Semantic Restrictions on Ta and A4. Basilectal Ta Marks Aspect, Not Tense; 4.1 Ta in Embedded Clauses; 4.2 Ta in Past-Reference Main Clauses; 5. The Modal Auxiliaries Ke, Mester, and Por; 6. Summary and Conclusion; Notes; References; Time Reference in Kikongo-Kituba; 1. Introduction; 2. Tense and Aspect in Kituba; 3. Summary and Conclusions; Notes; References; Tense, Mood, and Aspect in the Haitian Creole Preverbal Marker System; 1. Semi-Auxiliaries; 2. Preverbal Markers; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Semantics of the Preverbal Markers ; 3. A Reanalysis of the Preverbal Marker System 3.1 Ap, Va, Tap, and Ta; 3.1.1 Ap and Va as Futures; 3.1.2 Methodology; 3.1.3 Findings; 3.1.4 Uses of the Subjunctive Forms, Va and Ta; 3.1.5 Uses of the Indicative Forms, Ap and Tap; 3.2 Ap and Tap, Markers of Progressive and Habitual Aspect; 4. Conclusion; Notes; References; Tense and Aspect in Capeverdean Crioulo; 1. Tense and Aspect; 1.1 The Verbal Forms and Their Combinations; 1.2 Functions of the Various Forms; 1.2.1 The Unmarked Verbal Form (0 V); 1.2.2 The Preverbal Markers; 1.2.3 The Postverbal Suffix, -Ba ; 1.2.4 The Clause-Initial/Clause-Final Marker, Dja 2. Comparison of the Capeverdean Crioulo System with Bickerton's Analysis of Creole Tense and Aspect; 2.1 The Anterior Marker, -Ba; 2.2 The Irrealis and Nonpunctual; 2.3 The Completive Marker, Dja; 3. Conclusion; Notes; References; The Tense-Mood-Aspect System of Berbice Dutch; 1. BD Tense Aspect Markers; 2. Combinations of Tense-Mood-Aspect Markers; 3. Modals; 4. Summary; Note; References; Nigerian Pidgin English in Old Calabar in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; 1. The Diary of Antera Duke (DAD); 2. Other Eighteenth Century Efiks; 3. Data from the Nineteenth Century
• Sommario/riassunto: More than any other area of the grammar, tense-mood-aspect (TMA) has provided evidence to fuel the ongoing debates about creole genesis and about the relevance of pidgin and creole phenomena to language theory more generally. This volume advances the debate in two ways. First, it makes available in print for the first time and in its original form William Labov's On the Adequacy of Natural Languages: I. "The Development of Tense". Second, the volume features detailed analyses of the TMA systems of seven diverse pidgins and creoles, which vary in terms of their lexifying (superstrate) languages, their location, and their social histories. With the authors employing a broad range of theoretical perspectives for their analyses, the study demonstrates both the extent to which pidgins and creoles share a single, prototypical TMA system and the degree to which individual pidgins and creoles diverge from that prototype. This is a volume that brings forward our knowledge and understanding of pidgin and creole TMA. The seven languages analyzed are: Capeverdean Crioulo, Kituba, Papiamentu, Berbice Dutch, Haitian Creole, Kru Pidgin English, and Eighteenth Century Nigerian Pidgin English.
• Titolo autorizzato: Pidgin and Creole tense-mood-aspect systems
• ISBN: 1-283-32827-5; 9786613328274; 90-272-7826-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822620603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Creole language library ; ; 6.