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The Syntax and Semantics of a Determiner System : a case study of Mauritian creole.
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 noun...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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John Benjamins Publishing Company
2011.
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| Colección: | Creole language library ;
v. 38. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Syntax and Semantics of a Determiner System; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Sources of Mauritian Creole; 1. Origins; 2. Language situation in Mauritius; 3. A corpus-based approach to the study of MC determiners; 4. Outline of this work; 2. Introduction; 1. Why the determiner system?; 1.1 A quantificational approach; 2. Early changes from French to MC; 3. The new MC determiner system; 4. Syntactic framework; 4.1 A rationale for Minimalism; 4.2 The Determiner Phrase; 5. Semantics of determiners; 5.1 Definitions.