The Syntax of Cape Verdean Creole: The Sotavento VarietiesJohn Benjamins Publishing, 2002 - 289 Seiten This book offers an in-depth treatment of a variety of morpho-syntactic issues in Cape Verdean Creole (CVC) both from a descriptive and theoretical perspective. The investigated topics include the determiner system, Tense, Mood, Aspect markers and pronominal paradigms. The study of TMA markers reveals morpho-syntactic configurations with interesting ramifications for syntactic theory and parametric variation. This book targets creolists, theoretical linguists, and the Cape Verdean community. Given the diversified targeted audience, the descriptive chapters are purposefully kept separate from their theoretical counterparts, presenting issues that are later revisited in the Minimalist framework. The data used in this study are primarily drawn from 83 transcribed interviews from a pool of 187 speakers. The interviews were collected during fieldwork conducted in 1997, 2000 and 2001 in the Cape Verdean Sotavento (leeward) islands representing the more basilectal varieties of the creole. As all natural languages, CVC displays syntactic similarities and differences with other creoles and noncreoles. Hence, in the spirit of comparative syntax, this volume compares CVC to other creoles like Guinea-Bissau Creole and to noncreoles like Portuguese, French, Icelandic and Italian dialects. |
Inhalt
CHAPTER | 1 |
CHAPTER | 6 |
CHAPTER | 9 |
CHAPTER 3 | 23 |
Pluralization strategies | 35 |
Gender marking | 42 |
CHAPTER 4 | 75 |
CHAPTER 5 | 139 |
Cape Verdean Creole functional categories and clause structure | 159 |
The verbal syntax of Cape Verdean Creole | 169 |
CHAPTER 8 | 213 |
The ALUPEC | 269 |
285 | |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
adjectives adverbs agreement ALUPEC animacy argued assume Barlavento basilectal Bobaljik Brankinha Cape Verde Cape Verdean Creole Cardinaletti & Starke Chapter CL ASP CL NEG clause COMP copula creole languages definite distribution entities examples fidju fika floating quantifiers full NPs function Guinea-Bissau Creole heavy NP shift illustrated indefinite inflection interpretation islands João kaza Kihm Klavans kume language lexical lexical categories linguistic mininu modify morpheme morphology NEG TMA Negation nhos nominal NONCL CL nonclitics noun null null morpheme object occur odja overt PERF phonological plural suffixation Portuguese predicates preposition pronominal pronouns Rabeladu RC-ST reduplication referential RS-ST S-ST s/he Santiago semantic senpri sentence shown Silva singular slaves Sotavento Spec split IP staba stative verbs structure subject clitics subject position Suzuki syntactic tense Thráinsson TMA markers TMA TMA trabadja tudu txeu ungrammaticality V-raising Veiga verb movement verbal xefri
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