| Description |
1 online resource (339 pages). |
|
text txt rdacontent |
|
computer c rdamedia |
|
online resource cr rdacarrier |
| Series |
Contact language library ; Volume 55 |
|
Contact language library ; Volume 55. 2542-7059
|
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Negation and negative concord: the view from Creoles / Viviane Deprez and Fabiola Henri -- I. French related Creoles: Sentential negation and negative words in Guadeloupean Creole / Simon Petitjean and Emmanuel Schang -- What is negative? Negative Concord Items, constituent, sentential and expletive negation in Haitian Creole / Viviane Deprez -- A lexicalist account of negation and negative concord in Mauritian / Fabiola Henri -- II. English related Creoles: Negation in Pichi (Equatorial Guinea): The case for areal convergence / Kofi Yakpo -- Licensing negation and negative concord in Atlantic creoles: The case of Vincentian / Paula Prescod -- Negation in Singapore English / Luwen Cao and Zhiming Bao -- III. Portuguese related Creoles: Negation in Cape Verdean Creole: A parametric account / Marlyse Baptista and Emanuel Correia de Pina -- Elements of denial in Capeverdean: The negator ka and the properties of n-words / Fernanda Pratas -- Negation in Korlai Indo-Portuguese / J. Clancy Clements / Negation and negative concord in Guinea-Bissau Kriyol (in comparison with Portuguese, substrate-adstrate languages and other Portuguese Creoles) / Alain Kihm -- IV. Other lexifier: Negation in Palenquero: Syntax, pragmatics, and change in progress / Armin Schwegler -- Cross-linguistic negation contrasts in co-convergent contact languages / Peter Slomanson -- Conclusions / Viviane Deprez and Fabiola Henri. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Creole dialects -- Negatives.
|
|
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Negatives.
|
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
| Added Author |
Deprez, Viviane M., editor.
|
|
Henri, Fabiola, editor.
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: Negation and negative concord : the view from Creoles. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, c2018 339 pages Contact language library ; Volume 55. 9789027201928 (DLC) 2018051802 |
| ISBN |
9789027201928 |
|
9789027263155 (e-book) |
|
