Ekaterina Bobyleva
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ekaterina Bobyleva plays a role.
Article
2011 Definite determiners in two English-based creoles: Specificity or definiteness? The Noun Phrase in Romance and Germanic: Structure, variation, and change, Sleeman, Petra and Harry Perridon (eds.), pp. 141–156 | Article
It has been repeatedly observed in the literature that unlike their European lexifiers, creoles do not mark definiteness categorically. The question addressed here is whether the distribution of overt definite determiners and bare definite NPs in two Atlantic English-based creoles, Jamaican and… read more