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Publication details [#16826]

Stanwood, Ryo. 1997. The Primitive Syntax of Mental Predicates in Hawaii Creole English: A Text-Based Study. Language Sciences 19 (3) : 209–217.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

natural semantic metalanguage | semantic primitive

Language as a subject

English, Hawai'i Creole

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0388-0001

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study presents evidence collected from basilectal texts that the NSM mental predicates (, and ) have clear lexical exponents in Hawaii Creole English and that these HCE predicates occur, with minor qualification, in the syntactic configurations predicted by Wierzbicka (1996).