Marlyse Baptista
List of John Benjamins publications in which Marlyse Baptista is involved.
Book series
ISSN 2542-7059
Journals
ISSN 0176-4225 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9714
Titles
Noun Phrases in Creole Languages: A multi-faceted approach
Edited by Marlyse Baptista and Jacqueline Guéron
This volume offers a thorough examination of the syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and discourse properties of noun phrases in a wide variety of creole (and non-creole) languages including Cape Verdean Creole, Santome, Papiamentu, Guinea-Bissau Creole, Mindanao Chabacano, Réunionnais Creole, Lesser… read more[Creole Language Library, 31] 2007. x, 494 pp.
The Syntax of Cape Verdean Creole: The Sotavento varieties
Marlyse Baptista
This book offers an in-depth treatment of a variety of morpho-syntactic issues in Cape Verdean Creole (CVC) both from a descriptive and theoretical perspective. The investigated topics include the determiner system, Tense, Mood, Aspect markers and pronominal paradigms. The study of TMA markers… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 54] 2002. xxii, 294 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
2025 Diachrony and Diachronica: 40@40 Diachronica 42:2, pp. 137–160 | Editorial
2021 Reflections on Darwin’s natural selection: A lens on variation, competition and change Variation Rolls the Dice: A worldwide collage in honour of Salikoko S. Mufwene, Aboh, Enoch O. and Cécile B. Vigouroux (eds.), pp. 191–210 | Chapter
In this chapter, I adopt Mufwene's (2001, 2008) concepts of feature pool and feature selection and competition and compare it to Darwin's theory of natural selection (Darwin 1859). Such a comparison brings to light both the descriptive and explanatory adequacy of Mufwene’s theoretical framework,… read more
2018 Negation in Cape Verdean Creole: A parametric account Negation and Negative Concord: The view from Creoles, Déprez, Viviane and Fabiola Henri (eds.), pp. 173–190 | Chapter
This paper focuses on the behavior of Negation of the Cape Verdean Creole (CVC) variety spoken in Santiago (ST), using Longobardi’s (2014) theoretical framework. We examine simple negation, as well as the semantic and distributional properties of N-words. Following Longobardi’s framework, we offer… read more
2017 Competition and selection in creole genesis: How ‘minimalist’ languages yield maximal output Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 32:1, pp. 138–158 | Review article
2017 Competing I-grammars in creole genesis: A synchronic and diachronic view Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 32:2, pp. 398–415 | To be specified
2015 Continuum and variation in Creoles: Out of many voices, one language Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 30:2, pp. 225–264 | Article
This paper focuses on the two most distinct varieties of Cape Verdean Creole spoken on the islands of Santiago and São Vicente. These two varieties are consistently viewed as being in opposition to each other on historical, linguistic, political and cultural grounds. This paper examines the… read more
2010 Cape Verdean in education: A linguistic and human right Creoles in Education: An appraisal of current programs and projects, Migge, Bettina, Isabelle Léglise and Angela Bartens (eds.), pp. 273–296 | Article
This paper illustrates how the Cape Verdean language evolved from being oral to gaining written representation, a necessary step before integrating the educational realm. We report three sociolinguistic surveys showing the gradual shift in attitudes by native speakers towards the Cape Verdean… read more
2009 Economy, innovation and degrees of complexity in creole formation Complex Processes in New Languages, Aboh, Enoch O. and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 293–315 | Article
This paper explores the idea that in contact situations, there exists a process whereby so-called morpho-syntactic simplification is correlated to semantic complexification. In examining this process in the verbal and nominal domains, we show that a given morpheme may actually carry in Cape Verdean… read more
2007 3. On the syntax and semantics of DP in Cape Verdean Creole Noun Phrases in Creole Languages: A multi-faceted approach, Baptista, Marlyse and Jacqueline Guéron (eds.), pp. 61–105 | Chapter
In this chapter, I provide an in-depth description of the semantics and structure of the Cape Verdean noun phrase involving both determined and determinerless nouns. It shows how overt determiners and their null counterparts interact and overlap in covering the same range of meanings.
Bare nouns… read more
2007 17. Properties of noun phrases in creole languages: A synthetic comparative exposition Noun Phrases in Creole Languages: A multi-faceted approach, Baptista, Marlyse and Jacqueline Guéron (eds.), pp. 461–470 | Chapter
2007 18. Functional deficiency, ellipsis or innovation in creole languages? A postface Noun Phrases in Creole Languages: A multi-faceted approach, Baptista, Marlyse and Jacqueline Guéron (eds.), pp. 471–483 | Chapter
In this Postface, one of our primary objectives as editors, is to weave together into a coherent whole the insights and analyses of our contributors. We aim to show how the chapters in the volume complement each other, highlighting both similarities and differences in the patterns of the nominal… read more
2007 1. Noun phrases in creole languages: An introductory overview Noun Phrases in Creole Languages: A multi-faceted approach, Baptista, Marlyse and Jacqueline Guéron (eds.), pp. 3–34 | Chapter
2000 Verb Movement in four Creole Languages: A Comparative Analysis Language Change and Language Contact in Pidgins and Creoles, McWhorter, John H. (ed.), pp. 1–34 | Article
