Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages

Papers from the University of Chicago Conference on Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages

Editors

Francis Byrne

| Ohio State University

Donald Winford

| Ohio State University

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The volume has as its topic, not only the types of formal constructions and devices which creole languages syntactically utilize to achieve constituent focus, but also, in a much broader sense, the many other phenomena and processes found in these languages which serve to highlight sentence-level elements. The book is organized into five sections: 1. verb focus, predicate clefting and predicate doubling; 2. focus and anti-focus; 3. focus and pronominals; 4. discourse patterning; 5. grammatical relations.

[Creole Language Library, 12] 1993. xvi, 329 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/cll.12

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	v
Contents	vii
Introduction: Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages Francis Byrne, Alexander F. Caskey and Donald Winford	ix
1. Verb Focus, predicate Clefting and Predicate Doubling
Verb focus in the Typology of Kwa/Kru and Haitian Victor Manfredi	3
The Question of Predicate Clefting in the Indian Ocean Creoles Pieter A.M. Seuren	53
Two Types of predicate Doubling Adverbs in Haitian Creole Claire Lefebvre and Elizabeth Ritter	65
2. Focus and anti-focus
Scope of Negation and Focus in Gullah Salikoko S. Mufwene	95
Focus in Tok Pisin Gillian Sankoff	117
What is it that you said? A study of Obligatory Focalization in Two Creoles and Beyond Alain Kihm	141
Anti-Focus in Yor•bß: Some Implications for Creoles Olásopé O. Oyèláràn	163
3. Focus and Pronominals
Subject Focus and Pronouns Derek Bickerton	189
Focus, Emphasis and Pronominals in Saramaccan Francis Byrne and Alexander F. Caskey	189
4. Discourse Patterning
Focus, Topic Particles and Discourse Markers in the Belizean Creole Continuum Geneviève Escure	233
Foregrounding and Backgrounding in Haitian Creole Discourse Arthur K. Spears	249
5. Grammatical Relations
Expletives in Double-Object Constructions in Haitian Creole John S. Lumsden	269
Reflexives of Ibero-Romance Reflexive Clitic + Verb Combinations in Papiamentu: Thematic Grids and Grammatical Relations Pieter Muysken	285
Author Index	303
Language Index	307
Subject Index	311

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Subjects

Linguistics

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

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