The syntax of Jamaican Creole : a cartographic perspective /

This book offers an in-depth study of the overall syntax of (basilectal) Jamaican Creole, the first since Bailey (1966). The author, a Jamaican linguist, meticulously examines distributional and interpretative properties of functional morphology in Jamaican Creole (JC) from a cartographic perspectiv...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Durrleman, Stephanie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2008.
Colección:Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 127.
Temas:
Creole dialects, English > Jamaica > Syntax.
Creole dialects, English > Variation > Jamaica.
Langues créoles (anglaises) > Jamaïque > Syntaxe.
Langues créoles (anglaises) > Variation > Jamaïque.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General.
Creole dialects, English > Variation.
Jamaica.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This book offers an in-depth study of the overall syntax of (basilectal) Jamaican Creole, the first since Bailey (1966). The author, a Jamaican linguist, meticulously examines distributional and interpretative properties of functional morphology in Jamaican Creole (JC) from a cartographic perspective (Cinque 1999, 2002; Rizzi 1997, 2004), thus exploring to what extent the grammar of JC provides morphological manifestations of an articulate IP, CP and DP. The data considered in this work offers new evidence in favour of these enriched structural analyses, and the instances where surface orders.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 190 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-186) and indexes.
ISBN:9789027290694
9027290695
ISSN:0166-0829 ;

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