By Francis Byrne, Donald Winford
ISBN-10: 9027252335
ISBN-13: 9789027252333
The quantity has as its subject, not just the kinds of formal buildings and units which creole languages syntactically make the most of to accomplish constituent concentration, but additionally, in a wider feel, the numerous different phenomena and methods present in those languages which serve to spotlight sentence-level components. The publication is prepared into 5 sections: 1. verb concentration, predicate clefting and predicate doubling; 2. concentration and anti-focus; three. concentration and pronominals; four. discourse patterning; five. grammatical family.
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In addition to 'object drop' as in (27b), Haitian has produc tive ergative formation (='subject drop') as in (34), cf. Massam (1988). 34a) Jak koupe cut b) Pen an bread Det pen an. bread Det koupe. cut 'Jak cut the bread' The bread is/has been cut' The morphology of Haitian thus makes it unnecessary to maintain all these distinct types: 35) predicate cleft Se te achte Mari te achte flè a. ' Cop past Nom-buy Det past buy flower Det (Lefebvre & Lumsden 1990) 36) redoublement verbale Limen li limen lanp lan...
It is) your brother they invited [e], not you' CD (Speaker A: My brother and I are going to Nigeria tomorrow. A tuo fratello, non gli hanno ancora dato il visto. To your brother, they still haven't granted a visa [e]' 115) Dutch (van Haaften et al. 1983) HT Een kabouter, Jan zocht tevergeefs naar hem. 'A gnome, Jan looked in vain for one' CD Een kabouter, daar zocht Jan tevergeefs naar [e]. A gnome was what Jan looked for [e] in vain' 116) German (van Haaften et al. 1983, cited by Cinque 1983) HT Der Hans, mit dem spreche ich nicht mehr.
A lazy one is what Jak is' Se párese Jak párese. Se *(yon) malad Jak ye. 'A sick person is what Jak is' Se malad Jak malad. Hutchison's conclusion that parese and malad, which translate English ad jectives, are stative verbs is relatively uncontroversial; in parallel fashion, he regards timoun and doktè in these examples as denominal verbs of activity. ). Or else one could posit a default or null 'lite verb', with roughly the semantics of English do, interpolated in between the two nouns thus: Jak 0 timoun and Jak 0 doktè.
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