Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages

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

Editors

Francis Byrne | Ohio State University

Donald Winford | Ohio State University

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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 elements. The book is organized into five sections: 1. verb focus, predicate clefting and predicate doubling; 2. focus and anti-focus; 3. focus and pronominals; 4. discourse patterning; 5. grammatical relations.

[Creole Language Library, 12] 1993. xvi, 329 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/cll.12

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements | p. v

Contents | p. vii

Introduction: Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages

Francis Byrne, Alexander F. Caskey and Donald Winford | p. ix

1. Verb Focus, predicate Clefting and Predicate Doubling

Verb focus in the Typology of Kwa/Kru and Haitian

Victor Manfredi | p. 3

The Question of Predicate Clefting in the Indian Ocean Creoles

Pieter A.M. Seuren | p. 53

Two Types of predicate Doubling Adverbs in Haitian Creole

Claire Lefebvre and Elizabeth Ritter | p. 65

2. Focus and anti-focus

Scope of Negation and Focus in Gullah

Salikoko S. Mufwene | p. 95

Focus in Tok Pisin

Gillian Sankoff | p. 117

What is it that you said? A study of Obligatory Focalization in Two Creoles and Beyond

Alain Kihm | p. 141

Anti-Focus in Yor•bß: Some Implications for Creoles

Olásopé O. Oyèláràn | p. 163

3. Focus and Pronominals

Subject Focus and Pronouns

Derek Bickerton | p. 189

Focus, Emphasis and Pronominals in Saramaccan

Francis Byrne and Alexander F. Caskey | p. 189

4. Discourse Patterning

Focus, Topic Particles and Discourse Markers in the Belizean Creole Continuum

Geneviève Escure | p. 233

Foregrounding and Backgrounding in Haitian Creole Discourse

Arthur K. Spears | p. 249

5. Grammatical Relations

Expletives in Double-Object Constructions in Haitian Creole

John S. Lumsden | p. 269

Reflexives of Ibero-Romance Reflexive Clitic + Verb Combinations in Papiamentu: Thematic Grids and Grammatical Relations

Pieter Muysken | p. 285

Author Index | p. 303

Language Index | p. 307

Subject Index | p. 311

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