Evidence from verb serialisation: Èdó influence on Santome

Hagemeijer, Tjerk; Ogie, Ota

doi:10.1075/tsl.95.05hag

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Creoles, their Substrates, and Language Typology
Edited by Claire Lefebvre
[Typological Studies in Language 95] 2011
► pp. 37–60

Èdó influence on Santome

Evidence from verb serialisation

Tjerk Hagemeijer | Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa

Ota Ogie | Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Ferraz (1979) convincingly shows the impact of two typologically distinct African strata in the making of Santome: Èdó and Kikongo. In this paper, it will be shown that the extensive verb serialisation found in Santome shows a significant amount of typological overlap with Èdó multi-event and compound verb constructions. Since the impact of Èdó on Santome goes clearly beyond verb serialisation and is also found in the other Gulf of Guinea creoles, the findings strongly suggest an early Èdó founder impact in detriment of Kikongo or Bantu in general.

Keywords: Èdó, Santome, verb serialisation

Published online: 17 February 2011

https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.95.05hag

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