Marleen Susanne van de Vate

List of John Benjamins publications for which Marleen Susanne van de Vate plays a role.

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van de Vate, Marleen Susanne and Tonjes Veenstra 2016 Non-finiteness in Saamáka Finiteness Matters: On finiteness-related phenomena in natural languages, Eide, Kristin Melum (ed.), pp. 189–210 | Article
In this paper we demonstrate that the creole language Saamáka does exhibit the finite vs. non-finite distinction by analysing the semantic characteristics and syntactic distribution of complementizer fu. We adopt a Klein style analysis of finiteness and argue that clauses embedded under this… read more