A Comprehensive and Comparative Grammar of English Creoles

ISBN-13: 9780367897369 / Miękka / 2023 / 304 str.

Anand Syea

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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).