Negation and negative concord : : the view from Creoles / / edited by Viviane Deprez, Fabiola Henri.

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Superior document:Contact language library ; Volume 55
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam ;, Philadelphia : : John Benjamins Publishing Company,, [2018]
2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Contact language library ; Volume 55.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (339 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Negation and negative concord: the view from Creoles / Viviane Deprez and Fabiola Henri
  • I. French related Creoles: Sentential negation and negative words in Guadeloupean Creole / Simon Petitjean and Emmanuel Schang
  • What is negative? Negative Concord Items, constituent, sentential and expletive negation in Haitian Creole / Viviane Deprez
  • A lexicalist account of negation and negative concord in Mauritian / Fabiola Henri
  • II. English related Creoles: Negation in Pichi (Equatorial Guinea): The case for areal convergence / Kofi Yakpo
  • Licensing negation and negative concord in Atlantic creoles: The case of Vincentian / Paula Prescod
  • Negation in Singapore English / Luwen Cao and Zhiming Bao
  • III. Portuguese related Creoles: Negation in Cape Verdean Creole: A parametric account / Marlyse Baptista and Emanuel Correia de Pina
  • Elements of denial in Capeverdean: The negator ka and the properties of n-words / Fernanda Pratas
  • Negation in Korlai Indo-Portuguese / J. Clancy Clements / Negation and negative concord in Guinea-Bissau Kriyol (in comparison with Portuguese, substrate-adstrate languages and other Portuguese Creoles) / Alain Kihm
  • IV. Other lexifier: Negation in Palenquero: Syntax, pragmatics, and change in progress / Armin Schwegler
  • Cross-linguistic negation contrasts in co-convergent contact languages / Peter Slomanson
  • Conclusions / Viviane Deprez and Fabiola Henri.