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Negation and Negative Concord: The view from Creoles
Edited by Viviane Déprez and Fabiola Henri
[Contact Language Library 55] 2018
► pp. 11–32

Sentential negation and negative words in Guadeloupean Creole

This paper deals with negation in Guadeloupean Creole. We present the diversity of uses of negation in GC and detail the constraints on negative concord. We show that the different n-words exhibit a non-homogeneous behavior. Our analyses are couched in the Tree-Adjoining Grammar framework.

Keywords: Guadeloupean Creole, negative concord, Tree-Adjoining Grammar, XMG metagrammar
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Description and distribution of GC n-words
    • 2.1Preverbal pa as sentential negation
      • 2.1.1Other uses of pa and related words
    • 2.2 Janmè
    • 2.3 Anyen
    • 2.4 Pon N
  • 3.Negative concord and locality
  • 4.The framework
    • 4.1A quick introduction to tree-adjoining grammar
      • Metagrammars and XMG
    • 4.2Formal account of the GC negation
      • 4.2.1Sentential negation
      • 4.2.2 Janmè, jen and janmè
      • 4.2.3 Anyen and pon N
  • 5.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 12 December 2018
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