Main description:
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.
Table of contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Introduction: Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages
- 1. Verb Focus, predicate Clefting and Predicate Doubling
- Verb focus in the Typology of Kwa/Kru and Haitian
- The Question of Predicate Clefting in the Indian Ocean Creoles
- Two Types of predicate Doubling Adverbs in Haitian Creole
- 2. Focus and anti-focus
- Scope of Negation and Focus in Gullah
- Focus in Tok Pisin
- What is it that you said? A study of Obligatory Focalization in Two Creoles and Beyond
- Anti-Focus in YorÊ2;bß
- 3. Focus and Pronominals
- Subject Focus and Pronouns
- Focus, Emphasis and Pronominals in Saramaccan
- 4. Discourse Patterning
- Focus, Topic Particles and Discourse Markers in the Belizean Creole Continuum
- Foregrounding and Backgrounding in Haitian Creole Discourse
- 5. Grammatical Relations
- Expletives in Double-Object Constructions in Haitian Creole
- Reflexives of Ibero-Romance Reflexive Clitic + Verb Combinations in Papiamentu
- Author Index
- Language Index
- Subject Index
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.
Table of contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Introduction: Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages
- 1. Verb Focus, predicate Clefting and Predicate Doubling
- Verb focus in the Typology of Kwa/Kru and Haitian
- The Question of Predicate Clefting in the Indian Ocean Creoles
- Two Types of predicate Doubling Adverbs in Haitian Creole
- 2. Focus and anti-focus
- Scope of Negation and Focus in Gullah
- Focus in Tok Pisin
- What is it that you said? A study of Obligatory Focalization in Two Creoles and Beyond
- Anti-Focus in YorÊ2;bß
- 3. Focus and Pronominals
- Subject Focus and Pronouns
- Focus, Emphasis and Pronominals in Saramaccan
- 4. Discourse Patterning
- Focus, Topic Particles and Discourse Markers in the Belizean Creole Continuum
- Foregrounding and Backgrounding in Haitian Creole Discourse
- 5. Grammatical Relations
- Expletives in Double-Object Constructions in Haitian Creole
- Reflexives of Ibero-Romance Reflexive Clitic + Verb Combinations in Papiamentu
- Author Index
- Language Index
- Subject Index