Muhsina Alleesaib

List of John Benjamins publications in which Muhsina Alleesaib is involved.

Title

New Perspectives on Mauritian Creole and Reunion Creole: Standardization, grammar and language use

Edited by Muhsina Alleesaib and Julie Lefort

In the South-West Indian Ocean, Mauritius and Reunion are part of a group of islands where French-based Creoles are spoken. In spite of their geographical proximity, Mauritian Creole and Reunion Creole are strikingly different in their morphosyntax. The first part of this volume describes some… read more

[Contact Language Library, 61] 2025. vi, 326 pp.

Articles

Alleesaib, Muhsina 2025 Chapter 4. Gaps, resumptive pronouns and the complementizer ki in Mauritian Creole relative clauses New Perspectives on Mauritian Creole and Reunion Creole: Standardization, grammar and language use, Alleesaib, Muhsina and Julie Lefort (eds.), pp. 119–134 | Chapter

The present chapter looks at the internal structure of restrictive relative clauses in Mauritian Creole. The first part of this chapter deals with the alternation between gaps and resumptive pronouns, and its relation to the syntactic position of the relativized NP. A list of all pronouns and… read more

Alleesaib, Muhsina and Julie Lefort 2025 Introduction New Perspectives on Mauritian Creole and Reunion Creole: Standardization, grammar and language use, Alleesaib, Muhsina and Julie Lefort (eds.), pp. 1–15 | Chapter

Alleesaib, Muhsina 2015 Review of Guillemin (2011): The syntax and semantics of a determiner system: A case study of Mauritian Creole Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 30:2, pp. 385–388 | Review