The Syntax Of Jamaican Creole

Author : Stephanie Durrleman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027255105

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The Syntax of Jamaican Creole by Stephanie Durrleman Pdf

This book offers an in-depth study of the overall syntax of (basilectal) Jamaican Creole, the first since Bailey (1966). The author, a Jamaican linguist, meticulously examines distributional and interpretative properties of functional morphology in Jamaican Creole (JC) from a cartographic perspective (Cinque 1999, 2002; Rizzi 1997, 2004), thus exploring to what extent the grammar of JC provides morphological manifestations of an articulate IP, CP and DP. The data considered in this work offers new evidence in favour of these enriched structural analyses, and the instances where surface orders differ from the underlying functional skeleton are accounted for in terms of movement operations. This investigation of Jamaican syntax therefore allows us to conclude that the 'poor' inflectional morphology typical of Creole languages in general and of (basilectal) Jamaican Creole in particular does not correlate with poor structural architecture. Indeed the free morphemes discussed, as well as the word order considerations that indicate syntactic movement to designated projections, serve as arguments in favour of a rich underlying functional map.

Author : B. L. Bailey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1966-01-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521040822

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Jamaican Creole Syntax by B. L. Bailey Pdf

Beryl Loftman Bailey's book was one of the first published on the Jamaican Creole language.

Author : Beryl Loftman Bailey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Creole dialects
ISBN : OCLC:234104922

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Jamaican Creole Syntax by Beryl Loftman Bailey Pdf

Author : Edgar W. Schneider
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 833 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110208405

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The Americas and the Caribbean by Edgar W. Schneider Pdf

This volume gives a detailed overview of the varieties of English spoken in the Americas and the Caribbean, including regional, social and ethnic dialects (such as Southern US, Canadian or Chicano English) as well as Caribbean creoles from the Bahamas to Suriname. The chapters, written by widely acclaimed specialists, provide concise and comprehensive information on the phonological, morphological and syntactic characteristics of each variety discussed. The articles are followed by exercises and study questions. The exercises are geared towards students and can be used for classroom assignments as well as for self study in preparation for exams. Instructors can use the exercises, sound samples and interactive maps to enhance their classroom presentations and to highlight important language features.

Author : John Holm
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521585813

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An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles by John Holm Pdf

A clear and concise introduction to the study of how new languages come into being.

Author : John A. Holm,Peter L. Patrick
Publisher : Westminster Creolistics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Creole dialects
ISBN : 1903292018

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Comparative Creole Syntax by John A. Holm,Peter L. Patrick Pdf

This study seeks to answer some fundamental questions in Creole studies: which structural features are shared by all the world's Creoles, and to what extent are the traits typical of Atlantic Creoles also found elsewhere in the world?

Author : Marlyse Baptista,Jacqueline Guéron
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902725253X

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Noun Phrases in Creole Languages by Marlyse Baptista,Jacqueline Guéron Pdf

This volume offers a thorough examination of the syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and discourse properties of noun phrases in a wide variety of creole (and non-creole) languages including Cape Verdean Creole, Santome, Papiamentu, Guinea-Bissau Creole, Mindanao Chabacano, Réunionnais Creole, Lesser Antillean, Haitian Creole, Mauritian Creole, Seychellois, Sranan, Jamaican Creole, Berbice Dutch Creole and African American English. Comparative studies also consider the determiner systems of Middle and Modern French, European Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Ewe, Fon and Gun. This compilation of 16 chapters brings together descriptive, theoretical, diachronic and synchronic studies that focus on the structure and interpretation of bare nouns in creoles. The contributions demonstrate the variety and complex nature of determiner systems in creoles and their widespread use of bare nouns in comparison to their source languages. This volume is evidence of the relevance of creole languages to theories of language creation, language change and linguistic theory in general.

Author : Donald Winford
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027252319

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Predication in Caribbean English Creoles by Donald Winford Pdf

This is the first major study of the conservative or basilectal English creoles of the Anglophone Caribbean since Bailey's (1966) and Bickerton's (1975) descriptions of Jamaican and Guyanese Creole respectively. The book offers a comprehensive, unified treatment of the core areas of CEC predication, including the verb complex, auxiliary ordering, voice and valency, copular and attributive predication, serial verb constructions and complementation. Particularly note-worthy is its utilization of an extremely rich data base and a variety of sources to provide an up-to-date, state of the art account of predicate structures in CEC. The book presents new analyses of several areas of CEC syntax, including such phenonema as passivization, serialization and complementation, which have not been thoroughly analyzed, if at all, in the previous literature. The areas covered in the book involve a wide range of grammatical phenomena centering around the various sub-classes of verb and their subcategorization. The book consists of an introduction, a conclusion, and six chapters, each of which explores some aspect of the behavior of verbs (or verb-like predicators) and the constructions in which they occur. The book is intended to be a pre-theoretical account of the facts of CEC predication. However, to further elucidate the workings of the grammar and add some degree of explicitness to the description, the author also presents more formal analyses of the grammatical phenomena, employing the framework of Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar (GPSG).

Author : G. Alison Irvine-Sobers
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783961101146

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The acrolect in Jamaica by G. Alison Irvine-Sobers Pdf

An ability to speak Jamaican Standard English is the stated requirement for any managerial or frontline position in corporate Jamaica. This research looks at the phonological variation that occurs in the formal speech of this type of employee, and focuses on the specific cohort chosen to represent Jamaica in interactions with local and international clients. The variation that does emerge, shows both the presence of some features traditionally characterized as Creole and a clear avoidance of other features found in basilectal and mesolectal Jamaican. Some phonological items are prerequisites for “good English” - variables that define the user as someone who speaks English - even if other Creole variants are present. The ideologies of language and language use that Jamaican speakers hold about “good English” clearly reflect the centuries-old coexistence of English and Creole, and suggest local norms must be our starting point for discussing the acrolect.

Author : Viviane Déprez,Fabiola Henri
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263155

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Negation and Negative Concord by Viviane Déprez,Fabiola Henri Pdf

While universally present in languages, negation is well-known to manifest a surprising cross-linguistic diversity of forms. In creole languages, however, negation and negative dependencies have been regarded as largely uniform. Creole languages as Bickerton claims in Roots of Language, generally exhibit negative concord, a construction popularly dubbed ‘double negation’, where several expressions, each negative on its own, come together with a logic-defying single negation interpretation. While this construction – problematic for compositionality if the meaning of sentences emerge from the meaning of their parts – has fostered much research, the fertile data terrain that creole languages offer for its understanding is rarely taken into account. Aiming at bridging this gap, this book offers a wealth of theoretically informed empirical investigations of negative relations in a wide variety of creole languages. Uncovering a far more complex negative landscape than previously assumed, the book reveals the challenging richness that a thorough comparative study of creoles delivers.

Author : Michele Marie Kennedy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Creole dialects, English
ISBN : 3862883353

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Quantification in Jamaican Creole by Michele Marie Kennedy Pdf

Author : Frederic G. Cassidy,Robert Brock Le Page
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9766401276

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Dictionary of Jamaican English by Frederic G. Cassidy,Robert Brock Le Page Pdf

The method and plan of this dictionary of Jamaican English are basically the same as those of the Oxford English Dictionary, but oral sources have been extensively tapped in addition to detailed coverage of literature published in or about Jamaica since 1655. It contains information about the Caribbean and its dialects, and about Creole languages and general linguistic processes. Entries give the pronounciation, part-of-speach and usage of labels, spelling variants, etymologies and dated citations, as well as definitions. Systematic indexing indicates the extent to which the lexis is shared with other Caribbean countries.

Author : Mark Sebba
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317897170

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London Jamaican by Mark Sebba Pdf

London Jamaican provides the reader with a new perspective on African descent in London. Based on research carried out in the early 1980s, the author examines the linguistic background of the community, with special emphasis on young people of the first and second British-born generations.

Author : Yolanda Rivera Castillo
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004448834

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A Description of Papiamentu by Yolanda Rivera Castillo Pdf

This book constitutes a primary data-supported, comprehensive grammar of Papiamentu. It analyzes spontaneous speech data from two varieties spoken in Aruba and Curaçao. The author examines structural features so far unexplored in the areas of phonology, morphology, syntax, and aspects of sentential semantics. Particular attention is given to nominal classifiers, non-pro-drop syntactic constructions, and absolute tense marking, traits that are rarely described in regards to Creole or Romance languages. Researchers interested in formal analyses of Papiamentu, Creole languages, and in language contact will find this book an indispensable tool.

Author : Jürgen Handke, Peter Franke
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Internet in education
ISBN : 9783830966890

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The Virtual Linguistics Campus by Jürgen Handke, Peter Franke Pdf