The Syntax Of Mauritian Creole
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The Syntax Of Mauritian Creole
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Author : Anand Syea
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-01-01
The Syntax Of Mauritian Creole written by Anand Syea and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
A detailed study of different aspects of the syntax of Mauritian creole within a Chomksyan theoretical framework
The Acquisition Of Mauritian Creole
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Author : Dany Adone
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 1994-01-01
The Acquisition Of Mauritian Creole written by Dany Adone and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-01-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This work is based on an investigation of language acquisition process, particularly in regard to syntax, among Mauritian children learning to speak Mauritian Creole as their first language. As such, it is the first major study of the development of child grammar in a Creole context. Mauritian Creole, in common with many Creole languages, emerged under extreme conditions and, as an isolating language, Mauritian Creole is typologically different from languages where syntax is predominantly tied to morphology. There is thus an opportunity to broaden perspectives on language acquisition since until now most work has focused on languages such as English, French, German, Italian. The analysis proceeds within the GB framework of generative grammar, and discussion emanates from psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic and theoretical linguistic viewpoints. The data also provide a means for evaluating Bickerton's theory, especially his conclusion that the acquisition of radical Creoles takes place with fewer errors than is the case for other languages, given that Creole languages are in harmony with the 'Bioprogram'.
The Syntax Of Mauritian Creole
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Author : Anand Syea
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Release Date : 2013
The Syntax Of Mauritian Creole written by Anand Syea and has been published by Bloomsbury Academic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Creole dialects categories.
The Syntax And Semantics Of A Determiner System
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Author : Diana Guillemin
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2011
The Syntax And Semantics Of A Determiner System written by Diana Guillemin and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Within the framework of Chomsky's Minimalism and Formal Semantics, this work documents the development of the Mauritian Creole (MC) determiner system from the mid 18th century to the present. Guillemin proposes that the loss of the French quantificational determiners, which agglutinated to nouns, resulted in the occurrence of bare nouns in argument positions. This triggered a shift in noun denotation, from predicative in French to argumental in MC, and accounts for the very different determiner systems of the creole and its lexifier. MC nouns are lexically stored as Kind denoting terms, that share some of the distributional properties of English bare plurals. New MC determiners are analyzed as 'type shifting operators' that shift Kinds into predicates, and serve to establish the referential properties of noun phrases. The analysis provides evidence for the universality of semantic features like Definiteness and Specificity, and the mapping of their form and function.
The Morphosyntax Of Reiteration In Creole And Non Creole Languages
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Author : Enoch Oladé Aboh
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2012
The Morphosyntax Of Reiteration In Creole And Non Creole Languages written by Enoch Oladé Aboh and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This is a new contribution to a theory of reiteration in natural languages, with a special focus on creoles. Reiteration is meant to denote any situation where the same form occurs (at least) twice within the boundaries of some linguistic domain. By including two case studies bearing on Hebrew and Breton alongside five chapters on creole languages (Surinam creole, Haitian, Mauritian, São Tomé and Pitchi), this volume brings counter-evidence to the claim that reiteration phenomena are particularly typical of creoles. And by exploring the syntax of reiteration alongside its morphology, the authors are led to challenge the 'iconic' theory of 'reduplication' proposed in several other studies of similar phenomena. This volume will be relevant for creole studies, but also for readers more generally interested in language universals and the architecture of grammars.
Negation And Negative Concord
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Author : Viviane Déprez
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2018-12-15
Negation And Negative Concord written by Viviane Déprez and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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.
The Making Of Mauritian Creole
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Author : Philip Baker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
The Making Of Mauritian Creole written by Philip Baker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Foreign Language Study categories.
The Acquisition Of Creole Languages
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Author : Dany Adone
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-06-28
The Acquisition Of Creole Languages written by Dany Adone and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-28 with Foreign Language Study categories.
The first study into how children acquire Creoles as their first language in the absence of a conventional language model.
From Creole To Standard
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Author : Roshni Mooneeram
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 2009
From Creole To Standard written by Roshni Mooneeram and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Mooneeram gives a fascinating account of the unique history of the national language of Mauritius--creole--and the process of standardization that it is undergoing. He focuses on the work of the author Dev Virahsawmy, who, through his Shakespeare translations, is an active agent in the standardization of Mauritian creole.
Roots Of Creole Structures
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Author : Susanne Michaelis
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2008
Roots Of Creole Structures written by Susanne Michaelis and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book reflects an ongoing shift in the study of contact languages: After a period of history-free universalism, it directs the attention to the individual historical circumstances under which the pidgin and creole languages arose. The contributions deal with different areas of language structure including phonology, morphology, and syntax, providing a wealth of structural and sociohistorical data that any comprehensive theory of contact languages will have to account for. Each of the papers provides a thorough description of a structural phenomenon against the background of the sociohistorical contact situation. The languages covered in the book are: Guiné-Bissau Creole, Haitian Creole, Hawai'i Creole, Indo-Portuguese creoles, Jamaican Creole, Lingua Franca, North American French, Mauritian Creole, Santomense, Saramaccan, Seychelles Creole, Sranan, Surinamese Maroon creoles, Vincentian Creole, and Zamboangueño Chavacano.