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Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages
Papers from the University of Chicago Conference on Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages
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.
[Creole Language Library, 12] 1993. xvi, 329 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 28 October 2011
Published online on 28 October 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements | pp. v–vi
- Contents | pp. vii–viii
- Introduction: Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole LanguagesFrancis Byrne, Alexander F. Caskey and Donald Winford | p. ix
- 1. Verb Focus, predicate Clefting and Predicate Doubling
- Verb focus in the Typology of Kwa/Kru and HaitianVictor Manfredi | p. 3
- The Question of Predicate Clefting in the Indian Ocean CreolesPieter A.M. Seuren | p. 53
- Two Types of predicate Doubling Adverbs in Haitian CreoleClaire Lefebvre and Elizabeth Ritter | p. 65
- 2. Focus and anti-focus
- Scope of Negation and Focus in GullahSalikoko S. Mufwene | p. 95
- Focus in Tok PisinGillian Sankoff | p. 117
- What is it that you said? A study of Obligatory Focalization in Two Creoles and BeyondAlain Kihm | p. 141
- Anti-Focus in Yor•bß: Some Implications for CreolesOlásopé O. Oyèláràn | p. 163
- 3. Focus and Pronominals
- Subject Focus and PronounsDerek Bickerton | p. 189
- Focus, Emphasis and Pronominals in SaramaccanFrancis Byrne and Alexander F. Caskey | p. 189
- 4. Discourse Patterning
- Focus, Topic Particles and Discourse Markers in the Belizean Creole ContinuumGeneviève Escure | p. 233
- Foregrounding and Backgrounding in Haitian Creole DiscourseArthur K. Spears | p. 249
- 5. Grammatical Relations
- Expletives in Double-Object Constructions in Haitian CreoleJohn S. Lumsden | p. 269
- Reflexives of Ibero-Romance Reflexive Clitic + Verb Combinations in Papiamentu: Thematic Grids and Grammatical RelationsPieter Muysken | p. 285
- Author Index | pp. 303–306
- Language Index | pp. 307–310
- Subject Index | pp. 311–329
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