Grammatical Relations in a Radical Creole: Verb Complementation in SaramaccanJohn Benjamins Publishing, 01.01.1987 - 293 Seiten 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. |
Inhalt
THE ISSUES THE MODEL AND THE DATA | 1 |
SURINAME THE SARAMAKA AND SARAMACCAN | 15 |
ASPECTS OF THE SYNTAX OF SARAMACCAN | 39 |
CONSTITUENT DISLOCATION | 71 |
COMPLEMENTIZERLIKE FORMS | 107 |
CASEMARKING SERIALS | 159 |
VERBMODIFYING SERIALS | 199 |
CONCLUSIONS | 247 |
GLOSSARY OF PERTINENT SARAMACCAN FORMATIVES | 261 |
PERSONAL DATA ON PRINCIPAL SARAMAKA CONSULTANTS | 265 |
ABBREVIATIONS | 267 |
SARAMACCAN ORTHOGRAPHY | 271 |
DEFINITIONS | 273 |
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8-marked anaphor appear aspect marker bải base-generated Benefactive Bickerton bigi Byrne c-commands Case-marking Chapter child Chomsky coindexed COMP node COMP position complementizer-like fu constituents creole languages creolization D-structure dả Dative déé Derek Bickerton dỉ dỉ mujée di womi discussed dislocation EC subject English fanondu féfi finite clauses go/come grammar INFL INSTR kéiki kỏ lexical Linguistics loc the church loc-where lúku Magda marking matrix måtu modal Molion movement musu nján opolani overt tense Paramaribo pattern pidgin plantations possible preceding predicate adjectives prepose preposition pronominal pronoun properly governed quasi-modal fu S-initial position Samo Saramaccan Saramaka séi sembe serial verbs shoot the pig sỉ slaves speakers Sranan structure subcategorize subject position subordinate clauses superstrate Suriname súti syntactic Syntax tả tảa téi tion tså ungrammatical universal grammar verb copy verbal waka walk wh-forms wh-movement woman wỏmi wosu