Generative studies on Creole languages.
Title:
Generative studies on Creole languages.
Author:
Muysken, Pieter.
ISBN:
9783111392844
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (232 pages)
Series:
Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] ; v.6
Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]
Contents:
Introduction -- 1. Admissibility conditions on final consonant clusters in the Jamaican continuum Glenn Akers -- 2. Multifunctionality as a derivational problem Jan Voorhoeve -- 3. The development of the category of number in Tok Pisin Peter Mühlhäusler -- 4. Pursuing Creole roots Bill Washabaugh -- 5. A re-evaluation of the predicate in Ile-de-France Creole Chris Come -- 6. The developing complementizer system in Tok Pisin Ellen Woolford -- 7. Marking WH-Movement in Afrikaans Hans den Besten -- 8. Creole tense/mood/aspect systems: the unmarked case? Pieter Muysken -- 9. Haitian Creole Pu Hilda Koopman and Claire Lefebvre -- Addresses of contributors.
Abstract:
The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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