A Comprehensive and Comparative Grammar of English Creoles

A Comprehensive and Comparative Grammar of English Creoles provides a detailed, comprehensive description of the morphology, grammar, and syntax of a selected number of English Creoles, including those spoken on both sides of the Atlantic and the Pacific.

A Comprehensive and Comparative Grammar of English Creoles provides a detailed, comprehensive description of the morphology, grammar, and syntax of a selected number of English creoles, including those spoken on both sides of the Atlantic and the Pacific.

This book:

• Focuses on a number of traditional grammatical categories to provide a comprehensive description and discussion of these languages;

• Identifies not only how creoles differ from their lexifier, but also how they differ from one another;

• Provides effective comparative descriptions to enable an insightful understanding of language evolution.

This book will be ideal supplementary reading for students and researchers of linguistics, and will particularly appeal to those with an interest in descriptive linguistics, historical linguistics, World Englishes, contact and creole linguistics, and language policy and planning.

Autorentext

Anand Syea is a Reader in Linguistics within the Humanities department at the University of Westminster, UK. He is the author of French Creoles: A Comprehensive and Comparative Grammar (Routledge, 2016).

Zusammenfassung

A Comprehensive and Comparative Grammar of English Creoles provides a detailed, comprehensive description of the morphology, grammar, and syntax of a selected number of English creoles, including those spoken on both sides of the Atlantic and the Pacific.

This book:

• Focuses on a number of traditional grammatical categories to provide a comprehensive description and discussion of these languages;

• Identifies not only how creoles differ from their lexifier, but also how they differ from one another;

• Provides effective comparative descriptions to enable an insightful understanding of language evolution.

This book will be ideal supplementary reading for students and researchers of linguistics, and will particularly appeal to those with an interest in descriptive linguistics, historical linguistics, World Englishes, contact and creole linguistics, and language policy and planning.

Inhalt

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Nouns

Chapter 3 Determiners

Chapter 4 Pronouns

Chapter 5 Adjectives and Adverbs

Chapter 6 Verbs

Chapter 7 Tense, Modality, and Aspect

Chapter 8 Prepositions

Chapter 9 Clausal Complements

Chapter 10 Questions

Chapter 11 Relative Clauses

Chapter 12 Foregrounding Constructions

Chapter 13 Negation

Chapter 14 Sentence Structure