Loïc Jean-Louis
List of John Benjamins publications in which Loïc Jean-Louis is involved.
Articles
2026 On naming and definiteness: New evidence from Martinique Creole Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages: Online-First Articles | Article
Describing a modern variety of Martinique Creole spoken by French-Creole bilinguals, we show that this language uses two different subgrammars to express ‘definiteness’, viz to signal a uniqueness presupposition on a discourse referent: (i) the enclitic determiner -la, arguably located in a… read more
2022 The syntax of directional Serial Verb Constructions in French-based creoles Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 37:1, pp. 114–159 | Article
This article bears on directional
Serial Verb Constructions (SVCs) in French-based creoles. Starting with a working definition of our topic of study, we present a detailed description of the data in Martinican Creole (MQ) – whose grammar is similar in the relevant respects to that of… read more