Diana Guillemin
List of John Benjamins publications in which Diana Guillemin is involved.
Book series
ISSN 2542-7059
Titles
Language Description Informed by Theory
Edited by Rob Pensalfini, Myfany Turpin and Diana Guillemin
This volume explores how linguistic theories inform the ways in which languages are described. Theories, as representations of linguistic categories, guide the field linguist to look for various phenomena without presupposing their necessary existence and provide the tools to account for various… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 147] 2014. xii, 391 pp.
The Syntax and Semantics of a Determiner System: A case study of Mauritian creole
Diana Guillemin
Within the framework of Chomsky’s Minimalism and Formal Semantics, this work documents the development of the Mauritian Creole (MC) determiner system from the mid 18th century to the present. Guillemin proposes that the loss of the French quantificational determiners, which agglutinated to nouns,… read more[Creole Language Library, 38] 2011. xviii, 310 pp.
2025 Chapter 2. Evidence of topic-prominence in Mauritian Creole: A typological shift from French to Creole New Perspectives on Mauritian Creole and Reunion Creole: Standardization, grammar and language use, Alleesaib, Muhsina and Julie Lefort (eds.), pp. 49–95 | Chapter
This chapter aims to shed light on the function of the morphemes li, sa and se, that licence Topic-prominence in Mauritian Creole. The prevalence of Topic-Comment sentence structure, subjectless sentences, and a limited use of passives in the Creole provide evidence of a typological shift from… read more
2014 Marking Definiteness or Specificity, not necessarily both: Evidence of a principle of economy from Mauritian Creole Language Description Informed by Theory, Pensalfini, Rob, Myfany Turpin and Diana Guillemin (eds.), pp. 193–216 | Article
Definiteness and Specificity are assumed to be universal semantic categories, but they are not marked in all languages. Languages with only two articles mark either Definiteness or Specificity, not both (Ionin 2003). I apply Chomsky’s theory of Derivation by Phase (2001a, 2001b) to the analysis of… read more
2014 Editors’ introduction Language Description Informed by Theory, Pensalfini, Rob, Myfany Turpin and Diana Guillemin (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article
2014 Bibliography of Mary Laughren Language Description Informed by Theory, Pensalfini, Rob, Myfany Turpin and Diana Guillemin (eds.), pp. 15–24 | References
2012 The complex of creole typological features: The case of Mauritian Creole Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 27:1, pp. 48–104 | Article
This paper presents morphosyntactic and sentential information on Mauritian Creole (MC), a French-lexifier creole which has been underrepresented in many studies of Creole morphosyntactic typology. Typological features from Holm & Patrick (2007), Bickerton (1981, 1984), Taylor (1971, 1977), Markey… read more
2009 The Mauritian Creole determiner system: A historical overview Complex Processes in New Languages, Aboh, Enoch O. and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 173–200 | Article
The process of article incorporation early in the genesis of Mauritian Creole (MC) resulted in the occurrence of a bare nouns in argument positions with ambiguous interpretations between (in)definite, singular, plural and generic. A new determiner system gradually emerged, but MC continues to admit… read more
2007 13. A look at so in Mauritian Creole: From possessive pronoun to emphatic determiner Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives on Contact Languages, Huber, Magnus and Viveka Velupillai (eds.), pp. 279–296 | Article