The Defective Copy Theory of Movement: Evidence from wh-constructions in Cape Verdean Creole
Nélia Alexandre
[Creole Language Library, 41] 2012. xvi, 249 pp.
Nélia Alexandre
List of John Benjamins publications for which Nélia Alexandre plays a role.
Title
Subjects Creole studies | Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2018 Let’s speak Capeverdean. Language and culture. By Nicolas Quint Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 33:1, pp. 221–225 | Review
2018 Chapter 10. Language contact and variation in Cape Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil, Álvarez López, Laura, Perpétua Gonçalves and Juanito Ornelas de Avelar (eds.), pp. 237–266 | Chapter
Both Cape Verdean Portuguese (CVP) and Santomean Portuguese (STP) are in contact with Portuguese-lexified Creole languages formed during the 15th and 16th centuries: Cape Verdean (CV), in Cape Verde, and Santome, Angolar, and Lung’Ie, in São Tomé and Príncipe. Despite this, Portuguese is the only… read more
2007 2. Bare nouns and the nominal domain in Santome Noun Phrases in Creole Languages: A multi-faceted approach, Baptista, Marlyse and Jacqueline Guéron (eds.), pp. 37–59 | Chapter
This paper investigates the role of BNPs within the nominal system of Santome, the major Gulf of Guinea Creole. In the first part of the paper, we sketch an analysis of the DP focusing on the syntax and semantics of the modifiers that express definiteness, number and specificity and their… read more