Martha Swearingen Davis

List of John Benjamins publications for which Martha Swearingen Davis plays a role.

Article

Swearingen Davis, Martha 2000 The past imperfect in Palenquero Studies in Language 24:3, pp. 565–581 | Article

In Palenquero, an Afro-Iberian creole spoken in Colombia, the -ba marker appears in a wider range of environments than other TMA markers, which are commonly pre-verbal. While most creole scholars have assumed that -ba is a past anterior, I argue that this marker is in fact a past imperfect. The… read more