Fabiola Henri

List of John Benjamins publications in which Fabiola Henri is involved.

Journal

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages

Edited by Bettina Migge

ISSN 0920-9034 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9870

Title

Negation and Negative Concord: The view from Creoles

Edited by Viviane Déprez and Fabiola Henri

While universally present in languages, negation is well-known to manifest a surprising cross-linguistic diversity of forms. In creole languages, however, negation and negative dependencies have been regarded as largely uniform. Creole languages as Bickerton claims in Roots of Language, generally… read more

[Contact Language Library, 55] 2018. x, 327 pp.

Déprez, Viviane and Fabiola Henri 2018 Negation and negative concord: The view from creoles Negation and Negative Concord: The view from Creoles, Déprez, Viviane and Fabiola Henri (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Introduction

Déprez, Viviane and Fabiola Henri 2018 Conclusions Negation and Negative Concord: The view from Creoles, Déprez, Viviane and Fabiola Henri (eds.), pp. 313–323 | Chapter

Henri, Fabiola 2018 A lexicalist account of negation and negative concord in Mauritian Negation and Negative Concord: The view from Creoles, Déprez, Viviane and Fabiola Henri (eds.), pp. 69–100 | Chapter

This paper provides a descriptive and theoretical account of negation and negative concord in Mauritian within a constraint-based framework. It is argued that sentential negation is canonically preverbal but appears postverbally with neg-raising verbs, and that only the former participates in… read more

Henri, Fabiola 2012 Attenuative verbal reduplication in Mauritian: A morpho-semantic approach The Morphosyntax of Reiteration in Creole and Non-Creole Languages, Aboh, Enoch O., Norval Smith and Anne Zribi-Hertz (eds.), pp. 203–234 | Article

This paper presents an aspect of the grammar of Mauritian, a French-based Creole, called ‘Attenuative Reduplication’ (AR). AR is not specific to Mauritian since it can be found in other Creoles, and in languages like Mandarin Chinese, Setswana and Malagasy to cite but a few. The properties of… read more

Kriegel, Sibylle, Ralph Ludwig and Fabiola Henri 2008 7. Encoding path in Mauritian Creole and Bhojpuri: Problems of language contact Roots of Creole Structures: Weighing the contribution of substrates and superstrates, Michaelis, Susanne Maria (ed.), pp. 169–196 | Article

This article explores the question of language contact between Mauritian Creole and the Indo-Aryan language Bhojpuri. Historically, contact between these two languages came about as a result of the massive immigration of Indians to Mauritius, dating from the second half of the 19th century, after… read more