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Predication in Caribbean English Creoles.
This is the first major study of the conservative or basilectal English creoles of the Anglophone Caribbean since Bailey's (1966) and Bickerton's (1975) descriptions of Jamaican and Guyanese Creole respectively. The book offers a comprehensive, unified treatment of the core areas of CEC pr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1993.
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| Colección: | Creole language library ;
10. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This is the first major study of the conservative or basilectal English creoles of the Anglophone Caribbean since Bailey's (1966) and Bickerton's (1975) descriptions of Jamaican and Guyanese Creole respectively. The book offers a comprehensive, unified treatment of the core areas of CEC predication, including the verb complex, auxiliary ordering, voice and valency, copular and attributive predication, serial verb constructions and complementation. Particularly note-worthy is its utilization of an extremely rich data base and a variety of sources to provide an up-to-date, state of the art accou. |
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| Notas: | 5.1 "Take" Serial constructions and "case-marking." |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (427 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027276957 9027276951 6613328081 9786613328083 1283328089 9781283328081 |
| ISSN: | 0920-9026 ; |