Foregrounding and Backgrounding in Haitian Creole Discourse

Spears, Arthur K.

doi:10.1075/cll.12.18spe

In:Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages: Papers from the University of Chicago Conference on Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages
Edited by Francis Byrne and Donald Winford
[Creole Language Library 12] 1993
► pp. 249–268

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Foregrounding and Backgrounding in Haitian Creole Discourse

Arthur K. Spears

Published online: 28 October 1993

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