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A Comprehensive and Comparative Grammar of English Creoles provides a detailed, comprehensive description of the morphology, grammar, and syntax of a selected number of English creoles, including those spoken on both sides of the Atlantic and the Pacific.

This book:

Focuses on a number of traditional grammatical categories to provide a comprehensive description and discussion of these languages;

Identifies not only how creoles differ from their lexifier, but also how they differ from one another;

Provides effective comparative descriptions to enable an insightful understanding of language evolution.

This book will be ideal supplementary reading for students and researchers of linguistics, and will particularly appeal to those with an interest in descriptive linguistics, historical linguistics, World Englishes, contact and creole linguistics, and language policy and planning.



Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Nouns

Chapter 3 Determiners

Chapter 4 Pronouns

Chapter 5 Adjectives and Adverbs

Chapter 6 Verbs

Chapter 7 Tense, Modality, and Aspect

Chapter 8 Prepositions

Chapter 9 Clausal Complements

Chapter 10 Questions

Chapter 11 Relative Clauses

Chapter 12 Foregrounding Constructions

Chapter 13 Negation

Chapter 14 Sentence Structure

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
      Published 11/27/2023 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780367897369
      978-0367897369
      ISBN-10 0367897369
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      Language: history and general works

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A Comprehensive and Comparative Grammar of English Creoles provides a detailed, comprehensive description of the morphology, grammar, and syntax of a selected number of English creoles, including those spoken on both sides of the Atlantic and the Pacific.

      This book:

      Focuses on a number of traditional grammatical categories to provide a comprehensive description and discussion of these languages;

      Identifies not only how creoles differ from their lexifier, but also how they differ from one another;

      Provides effective comparative descriptions to enable an insightful understanding of language evolution.

      This book will be ideal supplementary reading for students and researchers of linguistics, and will particularly appeal to those with an interest in descriptive linguistics, historical linguistics, World Englishes, contact and creole linguistics, and language policy and planning.



      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1 Introduction

      Chapter 2 Nouns

      Chapter 3 Determiners

      Chapter 4 Pronouns

      Chapter 5 Adjectives and Adverbs

      Chapter 6 Verbs

      Chapter 7 Tense, Modality, and Aspect

      Chapter 8 Prepositions

      Chapter 9 Clausal Complements

      Chapter 10 Questions

      Chapter 11 Relative Clauses

      Chapter 12 Foregrounding Constructions

      Chapter 13 Negation

      Chapter 14 Sentence Structure

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