Shelome Gooden

List of John Benjamins publications for which Shelome Gooden plays a role.

Titles

Language Change in Contact Languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations

Edited by J. Clancy Clements and Shelome Gooden

[Benjamins Current Topics, 36] 2011. v, 241 pp.
Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Typology

Language Change in Contact Languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations

Edited by J. Clancy Clements and Shelome Gooden

Special issue of Studies in Language 33:2 (2009) 250 pp.
Subjects Contact Linguistics | Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology

Articles

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Gooden, Shelome, Kathy-Ann Drayton and Mary E. Beckman. 2011. Tone inventories and tune-text alignments: Prosodic variation in ‘hybrid’ prosodic systems. Language Change in Contact Languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations, Clements, J. Clancy and Shelome Gooden (eds.), pp. 137–176
The “hybrid” prosodic systems described for several Caribbean creoles challenge typologies that dichotomize between “intonation languages” and “tone languages” or between “stress” and “pitch-accent” languages. A more nuanced differentiation emerges if languages are compared in terms of questions… read more | Article
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Gooden, Shelome, Kathy-Ann Drayton and Mary E. Beckman. 2009. Tone inventories and tune-text alignments: Prosodic variation in ‘hybrid’ prosodic systems. Language Change in Contact Languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations, Clements, J. Clancy and Shelome Gooden (eds.), pp. 396–436
The “hybrid” prosodic systems described for several Caribbean creoles challenge typologies that dichotomize between “intonation languages” and “tone languages” or between “stress” and “pitch-accent” languages. A more nuanced differentiation emerges if languages are compared in terms of questions… read more | Article
Debates on the relationship between the aspectual properties of verbs and past marking in Caribbean English Creoles tend to focus on two main issues. The first is the semantic function of the “relative past” and its relation to the unmarked verb, and the second is the discourse functions of the… read more | Article
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