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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.
List 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
About the author
Anand Syea is a Reader in Linguistics within the Humanities department at the University of Westminster, UK. He is the author of
French Creoles: A Comprehensive and Comparative Grammar (Routledge, 2016).
Summary
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.
