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In:The Acquisition of Mauritian Creole
Dany Adone
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders 9] 1994
► pp. v–x

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Published online: 22 April 1994

https://doi.org/10.1075/lald.9.toc

Table of contents

Acknowledgementsxi

1. Introduction1

2. Creole languages3

3. A Creole in a multilingual society15

4. Methodology19

5. An outline of Mauritian Creole25

6. Tense, Mood and Aspects39

7. Modals61

8. The long and short forms of verbs69

9. Complex constructions85

10. Negation99

11. Empty categories113

12. The development of IP135

13. General conclusion143

Notes145

References151

Appendix 1: List of tables159

Appendix 2: Abbreviations used in the text161

Index163