Anand Syea French Creoles A Comprehensive and Comparative Grammar
Anand Syea French Creoles A Comprehensive and Comparative Grammar
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French Creoles: A Comprehensive and Comparative Grammar is the first complete reference to present the morphology, grammar and syntax of a representative selection of French Creoles in one volume.
Introduction Creole Languages - an historical overview What is a Creole? How did Creoles develop? Place of Creoles in education Chapter 1 Morphology Affixes - inflectional and derivational Compounding Chapter 2 Nouns Common and proper nouns Concrete and abstract nouns Count and non-count nouns Chapter 3 Articles Definite article Indefinite article Zero article Chapter 4 Pronouns Personal pronouns Possessive pronouns Demonstrative pronouns Reflexive pronouns Chapter 5 Adjectives and Adverbs Pre- and post-nominal adjectives Augmentative and dimunitive adjectives Adjective reduplication Ordering adjectives Adverbs (temporal, locational, manner, reason) Chapter 6 Numerals and quantifiers Types of numerals (ordinal, cardinal) Quantifiers Chapter 7 Verbs Types of verbs (transitive, ditransitive, unaccusative, unergative, control, raising, causative verbs) Verbs and their complements (finite and non-finite complements, defective complements, and small clause complements) Serial verb constructions Chapter 8 Tense, Mood, and Aspect markers Ordering of tense, mood, and aspect markers Modality (possibility, necessity, permission) Chapter 9 Prepositions Types of meaning expressed (e.g. dative, instrumental, location) Chapter 10 Subordination Subordinating conjunctions Adjunct clauses Chapter 11 Questions (types of questions: yes/no questions, wh-questions, multiple wh-questions, wh-in-situ questions, echo-questions) Chapter 12 Relative clauses (restrictive and non-restrictive) Relative pronouns Strategies for forming