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A grammar of Saramaccan Creole /

Saramaccan has been central to various debates regarding the origin and nature of creole languages. Being the most removed of all English-based creoles from European language structure in terms of phonology, morphology and syntax, it has been seen as one of the most extreme instantiations of the cre...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: McWhorter, John H. (Autor), Good, Jeff (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, ©2012.
Colección:Mouton grammar library ; 56.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Segmental phonology
  • Prosodic phonology
  • Morphology and morphophonetics
  • The noun phrase
  • Personal pronouns
  • Adjectives
  • Core predicate phrase modifiers: negators, tense, aspect, and modals
  • Verb serialization
  • Coordination and subordination
  • Passive and imperative
  • Questions
  • Nonverbal predication and be-verbs
  • Position, direction, and time
  • Adverbial modification
  • Information structure
  • Numerals and other time expressions
  • Lexical variation
  • Word list
  • Folktale transcription
  • Conversational passage.