Creole Genesis and the Acquisition of Grammar - The Case of Haitian Creole

Klappentext An examination of creole genesis! showing how mechanisms from source languages show themselves in creole. Zusammenfassung This study focuses on the cognitive processes involved in creole genesis: relexification! reanalysis! and direct levelling. The role of these processes is documented by a detailed comparison of Haitian creole with its two major contributing languages! French and Fongbe! to illustrate how mechanisms from source languages show themselves in creole. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. The problem of creole genesis and linguistic theory; 2. Cognitive processes involved in creole genesis; 3. The research methodology; 4. Functional category lexical entries involved in nominal structure; 5. The preverbal markers encoding relative tense, mood and aspect; 6. Pronouns; 7. Functional category lexical entries involved in the structure of the clause; 8. The determiner and the structure of the clause; 9. The syntactic properties of verbs; 10. Are derivational affixes relexified? 11. The concatenation of words in compounds; 12. Parameters; 13. Evaluation of the hypothesis; 14. Theoretical consequences; Appendices; Notes; References; Indexes.

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• Authors: Claire Lefebvre, Claire (Universite Du Quebec Lefebvre
• Assisted by: S. R. Anderson (Editor), J. Bresnan (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.01.1999
• EAN: 9780521593823
• ISBN: 978-0-521-59382-3
• No. of pages: 480
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguisti
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics