Claire Lefebvre

Claire Lefebvre

is author/editor of the following titles:

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Functional Categories in Three Atlantic Creoles: Saramaccan, Haitian and Papiamentu
Claire Lefebvre
[Creole Language Library, 50]  2015.  xvii, 386 pp.
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New Perspectives on the Origins of Language
Edited by Claire Lefebvre, Bernard Comrie and Henri Cohen
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 144]  2013.  xvi, 582 pp.
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Creoles, their Substrates, and Language Typology
Edited by Claire Lefebvre
[Typological Studies in Language, 95]  2011.  ix, 626 pp.
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L2 Acquisition and Creole Genesis: Dialogues
Edited by Claire Lefebvre, Lydia White and Christine Jourdan
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 42]  2006.  viii, 433 pp.
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Issues in the Study of Pidgin and Creole Languages
Claire Lefebvre
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 70]  2004.  xvi, 358 pp.
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Serial Verbs: Grammatical, Comparative and Cognitive Approaches
Edited by Claire Lefebvre
[Studies in the Sciences of Language Series, 8]  1991.  viii, 210 pp.

is editor/board member of the following journal:

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Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages (JPCL)

is author of the following articles:

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Stein, Peter, Térèz Léotin, Rémi Léotin, Juliette Sainton and Claire Lefebvre. 2018. “Jean Bernabe (1942–2017)”. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages  33:2, 240–242
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Kouwenberg, Silvia and Claire Lefebvre. 2015. “Chapter 8. A new analysis of the Papiamentu clause structure”. In Functional Categories in Three Atlantic Creoles: Saramaccan, Haitian and Papiamentu, 283–315
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Lefebvre, Claire. 2015. “Review of Michaelis, Maurer, Haspelmath, Huber, Revis & Taylor (2013): The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures ”. Studies in Language  39:3, 779–789
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Lefebvre, Claire. 2015. “Review of Michaelis, Maurer, Haspelmath, Huber & Revis (2013): The Survey of Pidgin and Creole Languages English-based and Dutch-based languages Portuguese-based, Spanish-based, and French-based languages Contact languages based on languages from Africa, Asia, Australia and the Americas ”. Studies in Language  39:2, 501–506
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Lefebvre, Claire. 2015. “Chapter 9. The properties of functional categories in the three creoles”. In Functional Categories in Three Atlantic Creoles: Saramaccan, Haitian and Papiamentu, 317–343
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Lefebvre, Claire. 2015. “Chapter 10. Conclusion”. In Functional Categories in Three Atlantic Creoles: Saramaccan, Haitian and Papiamentu, 345–361
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Lefebvre, Claire. 2015. “Chapter 3. Coordinating constructions in Fongbe with reference to Haitian Creole”. In Functional Categories in Three Atlantic Creoles: Saramaccan, Haitian and Papiamentu, 69–108
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Lefebvre, Claire. 2015. “Chapter 1. Introduction”. In Functional Categories in Three Atlantic Creoles: Saramaccan, Haitian and Papiamentu, 1–16
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Lefebvre, Claire. 2015. “Chapter 2. The nominal structures of Saramaccan, Fongbe and English with reference to Haitian Creole”. In Functional Categories in Three Atlantic Creoles: Saramaccan, Haitian and Papiamentu, 17–68
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Lefebvre, Claire and Isabelle Therrien. 2015. “Chapter 6. The multiple facets of Papiamentu ku”. In Functional Categories in Three Atlantic Creoles: Saramaccan, Haitian and Papiamentu, 211–243
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Lefebvre, Claire and Isabelle Therrien. 2015. “Chapter 7. On the properties of Papiamentu pa”. In Functional Categories in Three Atlantic Creoles: Saramaccan, Haitian and Papiamentu, 245–282
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Lefebvre, Claire and Virginie Loranger. 2015. “Chapter 4. The multifunctionality of Saramaccan táa”. In Functional Categories in Three Atlantic Creoles: Saramaccan, Haitian and Papiamentu, 109–160
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Lefebvre, Claire and Virginie Loranger. 2015. “Chapter 5. On the properties of Saramaccan fu”. In Functional Categories in Three Atlantic Creoles: Saramaccan, Haitian and Papiamentu, 161–210
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Lefebvre, Claire and Renée Lambert-Brétière. 2014. “A note on the Haitian double-object construction and the relabelling-based account of creole genesis”. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages  29:1, 143–156
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Lefebvre, Claire. 2013. “On the relevance of pidgins and creoles in the debate on the origins of language”. In New Perspectives on the Origins of Language, 441–484
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Lefebvre, Claire. 2011. “The contribution of relexification, grammaticalization, and reanalysis to creole genesis and development”. In Language Change in Contact Languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations, 19–52
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Lefebvre, Claire. 2011. “The problem of the typological classification of creoles”. In Creoles, their Substrates, and Language Typology, 3–33
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Lefebvre, Claire. 2011. “Substrate features in the properties of verbs in three Atlantic creoles”. In Creoles, their Substrates, and Language Typology, 127–153
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Lefebvre, Claire. 2010. “Review of Baptista & Guéron (2007): Noun phrases in creole languages: A multifaceted approach ”. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages  25:2, 398–403
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Lefebvre, Claire. 2009. “A note on the process of lexical diffusion in the development of creoles: The case of double-object verbs”. In Gradual Creolization: Studies celebrating Jacques Arends, 101–112
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Lefebvre, Claire. 2009. “The contribution of relexification, grammaticalisation, and reanalysis to creole genesis and development”. In Language Change in Contact Languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations, 277–311
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Lefebvre, Claire. 2008. “

Reply to McWhorter’s ‘Hither and thither in Saramaccan Creole’

”. Studies in Language  32:1, 196–205
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Lefebvre, Claire. 2008. “8. On the principled nature of the respective contributions of substrate and superstrate languages to a creole's lexicon”. In Roots of Creole Structures: Weighing the contribution of substrates and superstrates, 197–223
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Lefebvre, Claire and Isabelle Therrien. 2007. “11. On the properties of Papiamentu pa: Synchronic and diachronic perspectives”. In Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives on Contact Languages, 215–255
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Lefebvre, Claire and Isabelle Therrien. 2007. “13. On Papiamentu ku”. In Language Description, History and Development: Linguistic indulgence in memory of Terry Crowley, 169–182
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Lefebvre, Claire and Virginie Loranger. 2006. “On the properties of Saramaccan FU ”. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages  21:2, 275–335
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Lefebvre, Claire, Lydia White and Christine Jourdan. 2006. “Introduction”. In L2 Acquisition and Creole Genesis: Dialogues, 1–14
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Lefebvre, Claire. 2004. “6. Coordinating constructions in Fongbe with reference to Haitian Creole”. In Coordinating Constructions, 123–164
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Lefebvre, Claire. 2001. “On the semantic opacity of creole languages”. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages  16:2, 321–353
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Lefebvre, Claire. 2000. “On data”. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages  15:2, 313–337
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Lefebvre, Claire. 2001. “1. Relexification in creole genesis and its effects on the development of the creole”. In Creolization and Contact, 9
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Lefebvre, Claire. 2001. “Multifunctionality and the concept of lexical entry”. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages  16:1, 107–145
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Lefebvre, Claire. 2000. “What do creole studies have to offer to mainstream linguistics?”. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages  15:1, 127–153
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Lefebvre, Claire. 1999. “On the Empirical Reliability of Some Haitian Data”. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages  14:2, 379–384
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Lefebvre, Claire. 1999. “Substratum Semantics in the Verbal Lexicon of Haitian Creole”. Studies in Language  23:1, 61–103
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Lefebvre, Claire. 1998. “Multifunctionality and Variation Among Grammars”. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages  13:1, 93–150
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Lefebvre, Claire. 1997. “Relexification in Creole Genesis”. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages  12:2, 181–201
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Lefebvre, Claire. 1996. “The Tense, Mood, and Aspect System of Haitian Creole and the Problem of Transmission of Grammar in Creole Genesis”. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages  11:2, 231–311
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Lefebvre, Claire and Elizabeth Ritter. 1993. “Two Types of predicate Doubling Adverbs in Haitian Creole”. In Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages: Papers from the University of Chicago Conference on Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages, 65
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Lefebvre, Claire. 1991. “ Take Serial Verb Constructions in Fon”. In Serial Verbs: Grammatical, Comparative and Cognitive Approaches, 37
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Lefebvre, Claire and Elizabeth Ritter. 1991. “A Note on Three Types of Causal Clauses in Haitian Creole”. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages  6:2, 279–283
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Brousseau, Anne-Marie, Sandra Filipovich and Claire Lefebvre. 1989. “Morphological Processes in Haitian Creole”. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages  4:1, 1–36
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Lefebvre, Claire. 1989. “Some problems in defining syntactic variables”. In Language Change and Variation, 351
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Lefebvre, Claire. 1988. “Review of Carrington, Craig & Dandaré (1983): Studies in Caribbean Language ”. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages  3:1, 153–157
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Lefebvre, Claire and Diane Massam. 1988. “Haitian Creole Syntax”. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages  3:2, 213–243
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Lefebvre, Claire. 1986. “Relexification in creole Genesis Revisited”. In Substrata versus Universals in Creole Genesis: Papers from the Amsterdam Creole Workshop, April 1985, 279