Anand Syea
List of John Benjamins publications for which Anand Syea plays a role.
2025 Chapter 5. Indo-Aryan influence in Mauritian Creole New Perspectives on Mauritian Creole and Reunion Creole: Standardization, grammar and language use, Alleesaib, Muhsina and Julie Lefort (eds.), pp. 135–183 | Chapter
This paper looks at possible Indo-Aryan influence on the grammar of Mauritian Creole. Although several Indo-Aryan languages have been in close contact with Mauritian Creole for almost two hundred years, they appear to have had only minimal impact on its syntax. So far, the NP so NP genitives… read more
2013 Serial Verb Constructions in Indian Ocean French Creoles (IOCs): Substrate, universal, or an independent diachronic development? Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 28:1, pp. 13–64 | Article
This paper revisits the debate between Bickerton on the one hand and Seuren, Corne, Coleman and Curnow on the other on the question of whether serial verb constructions exist in the French creoles of the Indian Ocean (namely Seychelles Creole and Mauritian Creole). It examines data particularly… read more
2006 Tense, mood, and aspect and the Deixis Ordering Principle History, Society and Variation: In honor of Albert Valdman, Clements, J. Clancy, Thomas A. Klingler, Deborah Piston-Hatlen and Kevin J. Rottet (eds.), pp. 273–296 | Article
1993 Null Subject in Mauritian Creole and the Pro-Drop Parameter Atlantic Meets Pacific: A global view of pidginization and creolization, Byrne, Francis and John Holm † (eds.), pp. 91–104 | Article
1991 On the Copula in Mauritian Creole, Past and Present Development and Structures of Creole Languages: Essays in honor of Derek Bickerton, Byrne, Francis and Thom Huebner (eds.), pp. 159–178 | Article