Chris Corne
List of John Benjamins publications in which Chris Corne is involved.
1995 Nana K Nana, Nana K Napa: The Paratactic and Hypotactic Relative Clauses of Reunion Creole Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 10:1, pp. 57–76 | Article
A recent study of Tayo shows an obligatory subordinator sa in all relative clauses. The Isle de France dialects, like most other varieties of Creole French, have an obligatory subordinator ki for subject relatives, while ki is optional elsewhere. Reunion Creole has a subordinator ke which is almost… read more
1994 Relativization and Thematization in Tayo and the Implications for Creole Genesis Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 9:2, pp. 283–304 | Article
Relative clauses in Tayo, the French-lexicon Creole of St-Louis (New Caledonia) which emerged in the late 19th century, reflect in their construction and their distribution typically Melanesian patterns, including a sub-ordinator derived from a personal pronoun, sa. Thematization similarly reflects… read more
1988 Mauritian Creole Reflexives Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 3:1, pp. 69–94 | Article
In the process of pidginization and creolization that occurred in the 18th century, Mauritian Creole (Mau) did not retain the atonic clitics of French. In consequence, morphologically marked reflexives were lost, or paraphrased in various ways using especially the lexical item lekor 'body'. Where… read more
1986 Universals, Substrata and the Indian Ocean Creoles Substrata versus Universals in Creole Genesis: Papers from the Amsterdam Creole Workshop, April 1985, Muysken, Pieter and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 163–184 | Article
1979 17. Seychelles Creole French phonemics Readings in Creole Studies, Hancock, Ian F. (ed.), pp. 239–251 | Chapter