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...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co
1993.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b3108221x*spi |
| 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: | 427 p. |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9789027276957 |
