Publications
Publication details [#10685]
Escure, Geneviève. 1985. The Belizean copula: A case of semantactic shift. In Dascal, Marcelo, ed. Dialogue: An interdisciplinary approach. John Benjamins. pp. 265–281. 
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
An analysis of the copula da/a in Belizean Creole, arguing that their status as copula is not all that unambiguous, and that this can be seen as an indicator of semantic shift from one copular system to another.