Chapter published in:
Word Order Change in Acquisition and Language Contact: Essays in honour of Ans van Kemenade
Edited by Bettelou Los and Pieter de Haan
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 243] 2017
► pp. 265–290

Chapter 12
Verb particle combinations and word order change in Dutch-lexifier creole languages

| CLS, Radboud University Nijmegen
| CLS, Radboud University Nijmegen
| Edinburgh University

This paper discusses the development and structural properties of verb + particle combinations in various creole languages for which Dutch was the main lexifier: Afrikaans, Berbice Dutch Creole, and Virgin Islands Dutch Creole (Negerhollands). In addition, it examines creole languages which have had substantial lexical influence from Dutch, such as Sranan, Ndyuka, and Papiamentu. The paper focuses on the interaction between grammatical patterns of object / verb order and lexical patterns involving verb + particle combinations.

Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Afrikaans
  • 3. Berbice Dutch
  • 4.Virgin Islands Dutch Creole
  • 5.Loans involving Dutch verb particle combinations in non-Dutch lexifier Creole languages
  • 6. Discussion and conclusions
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 14 December 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.243.12slu
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