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Grammatical Relations in a Radical Creole : Verb Complementation in Saramaccan.
Title:
Grammatical Relations in a Radical Creole : Verb Complementation in Saramaccan.
Author:
Byrne, Francis.
ISBN:
9789027279019
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (307 pages)
Series:
Creole Language Library
Contents:
GRAMMATICAL RELATIONS IN A RADICAL CREOLE -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- PREFACE -- Table of contents -- FOREWORD -- CHAPTER I: THE ISSUES, THE MODEL AND THE DATA -- 1.1 Saramaccan as a Creole -- 1.2 Government and Binding Theory -- 1.3 The Data -- NOTES -- CHAPTER II: SURINAME, THE SARAMAKA AND SARAMACCAN -- 2.1 The Demographics of Pidginization and Creolization -- 2.2 Suriname and Saramaccan -- 2.2.1 Suriname -- 2.2.2 Provenience of Slaves -- 2.2.3 Demographics of Suriname's Slaves -- 2.3 The Saramaka and Saramaccan -- NOTES -- CHAPTER III: ASPECTS OF THE SYNTAX OF SARAMACCAN -- 3 .1 Wh-Phenomena -- 3.1.1 Question Formation -- 3.2 TMA, Pronominals and Perception Complements -- 3.3 Coordination and Subordination -- 3.3.1 Sentential Coordinate Structures -- 3.3.2 Dislocation and Subordination -- 3.3.2.1 NP Focus -- 3.3.2.2 Verb Copy -- 3.3.2.3 Prepositional Phrase Focus -- 3.4 Summary -- NOTES -- CHAPTER IV: CONSTITUENT DISLOCATION -- 4.1 Move Alpha -- 4.2 Movement to θ'-Positions -- 4.2.1 Pleonastic Pronouns, Extraposition and Raising -- 4.2.2 Passive Constructions -- 4.3 Government, Proper Government, and Trace -- 4.3.1 Categorial Status of Trace -- 4.3.2 PP Trace -- 4.3.3 Verb Copy -- 4.4 Subjacency -- 4.4.1 Bounding Nodes -- 4.5 Summary -- NOTES -- CHAPTER V: COMPLEMENTIZER-LIKE FORMS -- 5.1 fu 'for' -- 5.1.1 Etymology of FU -- 5.1.2 fu in SA -- 5.1.3 fu as Preposition -- 5.1.4 fu and Other Quasi-Modals -- 5.1.4.1 fu, Modals and Quasi-Modals -- 5.1.4.2 Sentential Complements of Quasi-Modals -- 5.1.5 Complementizer-Like fu -- 5.1.5.1 Sentential Complements of Complementizer-Like fu -- 5.1.5.2 Properties of Complementizer-Like fu -- 5.1.6 Quasi-Modal and Complementizer-Like fu and the Lexicon -- 5.1.7 fu as a Serial Verb -- 5.2 táa 'say, that' -- 5.3 Summary -- NOTES -- CHAPTER VI: CASE-MARKING SERIALS.

6.1 Instrumentals -- 6.1.1 TMA Marking -- 6.1.2 Subjects -- 6.1.3 Instrumentals and S' -- 6.2 Benefactives and Datives -- 6.2.1 Benefactives -- 6.2.2 Datives -- 6.3 Summary -- NOTES -- CHAPTER VII: VERB-MODIFYING SERIALS -- 7.1 gó 'go' and kó 'come' -- 7.1.1 Matrix gó and kó -- 7.1.2 V gó/kó -- 7.1.3 VP gó/kó -- 7.1.4 Directional gó and kó -- 7.1.5 Complementizer-Like gó/kó -- 7.1.6 Summary -- 7.2 lóntu 'around, circle' -- 7.3 kabá 'finish' -- 7.4 pasá 'pass' -- 7.4.1 móon 'more' -- 7.5 Periphrastic Serials and Control Revisited -- 7.5.1 Periphrastic Serials -- 7.5.2 Control Revisited -- 7.6 Summary -- NOTES -- CHAPTER VIII: CONCLUSIONS -- 8.1 Synchronic and Reconstructed SA and Creolization -- 8.2 Serialization and the Substrate/Universals Debate -- 8.3 Universal Grammar -- 8.4 Envoi -- NOTES -- APPENDIX A: GLOSSARY OF PERTINENT SARAMACCAN FORMATIVES -- APPENDIX B: PERSONAL DATA ON PRINCIPAL SARAMAKA CONSULTANTS -- APPENDIX C: ABBREVIATIONS -- APPENDIX D: SARAMACCAN ORTHOGRAPHY -- APPENDIX E: DEFINITIONS -- REFERENCES.
Abstract:
With English and Portuguese as parent languages; the significant lexical retention of African languages; and the relative isolation of its speakers, Saramaccan has always stood out among Creole languages. Yet despite its obvious interest Saramaccan received little in the way of scholarly study. This groundbraking monograph dispels the mystery surrounding Saramaccan and provides strong evidence for a new approach to Creole origins. The study is carried out within the government-binding framework. The author shows how Saramaccan comes close to demonstrating what constitues the irreducible minimum of building blocks with which a language can be constructed, and the types of structure which must develop under such conditions. In this work Frank Byrne combines the outcome of patient and persevering fieldwork with a firm grasp of current theoretical issues and provides us with the insights into the nature of universal grammar of which a Creole like Saramaccan is potentially capable.
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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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