Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages : Papers from the University of Chicago Conference on Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages.

The volume has as its topic, not only the types of formal constructions and devices which creole languages syntactically utilize to achieve constituent focus, but also, in a much broader sense, the many other phenomena and processes found in these languages which serve to highlight sentence-level el...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Byrne, Francis
Otros Autores: Winford, Donald
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1993.
Temas:
Creole dialects > Grammar.
Creole dialects > Grammar
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • FOCUS AND GRAMMATICAL RELATIONS IN CREOLE LANGUAGES; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Acknowledgements; Table of contents; INTRODUCTION: FOCUS AND GRAMMATICAL RELATIONS IN CREOLE LANGUAGES; 1.0. Introduction; 2.0 Focus and Grammatical Relations; NOTES; REFERENCES; SECTION ONE: VERB FOCUS, PREDICATE CLEFTING ANDPREDICATE DOUBLING; VERB FOCUS IN THE TYPOLOGY OF KWA/KRU AND HAITIAN; 1.0. The Verb Focus Type of 'wh'-Movement; 2.0. Nominal Morphology of the Event Argument; 2.1. Ìgbo; 2.2. Vata and Haitian V-N Conversion; 2.3. Yorùbá; 3.0. The Focus Licensing of [SPEC, CP]; 3.1. Yorùbá
  • 3.2. Haitian3.3. Ìgbo; 4.0. A WYSIWYG Typology of Verb Focus; 5.0. The 'wh'-type of Focus Constructions; 6.0. How to be a Kwa Lexicon; 7.0. On the (ir)Relevance of Kwa to "Creoles"; NOTES; REFERENCES; THE QUESTION OF PREDICATE CLEFTTNG IN THE INDIAN OCEAN CREOLES; 0. Introduction; 1.0. Predicate Clefting; 2.0.; 3.0.; NOTES; REFERENCES; POSTSCRIPT; TWO TYPES OF PREDICATE DOUBLING ADVERBS IN HAITIAN CREOLE; 0. Introduction; 1.0. Temporal Adverbial Clauses; 1.1. Characteristics; 1.2. Analysis; 2.0. Causal Adverbial Clauses; 2.1. Characteristics; 2.2. Analysis.
  • 3.0. Temporal and Causal Adverbs in Dialect B4.0. Is Predicate Doubling a Case of Head Movement?; Appendix: Clausal Argument; A. Characteristics; B. Towards an Analysis; NOTES; REFERENCES; SECTION TWO: FOCUS AND ANTI-FOCUS; SCOPE OF NEGATION AND FOCUS IN GULLAH; 1. Introduction; 2. Negation in Gullah; 3. Negation and Focus in Gullah; 3.1. in Cleft Constructions; 3.2. Sentence-Initial in Questions as a Focus Marker; 3.3. The Negator nat as a Focus Marker; 4. Conclusions; NOTES; REFERENCES; FOCUS IN TOK PISIN; 1.0. Introduction; 2.0. Movement?; 2.1. Basic word order in Tok Pisin.
  • 2.2. Where do we find wh-?2.3. Relative clauses; 2.4. Fronting of Nominals; 2.5. Parallels with Austronesian in wh-Constructions; 3.0. 'Em'-clefts; 4.0. Postposed Focus Particles; 5.0. Tok Pisin as an Austronesian Language; NOTES; REFERENCES; WHAT IS IT THAT YOU SAID? A STUDY OF OBLIGATORY FOCALIZATION IN TWO CREOLES AND BEYOND; 1.0. Introduction; 2.0. Obligatory Focalization: A Morphosyntactic Account; 3.0. Obligatory Focalization: A Logico-Semantic Account; 4.0. Conclusion: A Cognitivist Perspective; NOTES; REFERENCES; ANTI-FOCUS IN YORÙBÁ: SOME IMPLICATIONS FOR CREOLES; 1.0. Preliminaries.
  • 2.0. Focus, Topicalization and Anti-Focus: A Definition3.0. Data; 3.1. The Scope of Anti-Focus in Yorùbá; 3.2. SVC/PP Alternation; 3.3. Focus in Yorùbá; 4.0. Analysis; 4.1. Characterizing Anti-Focus 'ní; 4.2. Separating Focus from Anti-Focus; 5.0. Comparison with Haitian; 5.1. Locative/Directional, Dative; 5.2. Extraction in Haitian; 6.0. Focus in Haitian and Yorùbá Compared; 7.0. Implications; 7.1. Anti-focus Reflection on Focus in Yorùbá; 7.2. Anti-Focus and SVC Argument Structure; 7.3. Implication for Haitian; NOTES; REFERENCES; SECTION THREE: FOCUS AND PRONOMINALS.

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