A Grammar of Saramaccan Creole /

A Grammar of Saramaccan Creole / / John McWhorter, Jeff Good.

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Saramaccan has been central to various debates regarding the origin and nature of creole languages. Being the most removed of all English-based creoles from European language structure in terms of phonology, morphology and syntax, it has been seen as one of the most extreme instantiations of the cre...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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McWhorter, John,
Good, Jeff,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] , 56
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Physical Description:1 online resource (246 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Segmental phonology
  • Chapter 2. Prosodic phonology
  • Chapter 3. Morphology and morphophonemics
  • Chapter 4. The noun phrase
  • Chapter 5. Personal pronouns
  • Chapter 6. Adjectives
  • Chapter 7. Core predicate phrase modifiers: Negators, tense, aspect, and modals
  • Chapter 8. Verb serialization
  • Chapter 9. Coordination and subordination
  • Chapter 10. Passive and imperative
  • Chapter 11. Questions
  • Chapter 12. Nonverbal predication and be-verbs
  • Chapter 13. Position, direction, and time
  • Chapter 14. Adverbial modification
  • Chapter 15. Information structure
  • Chapter 16. Numerals and other time expressions
  • Chapter 17. Lexical variation
  • Word list
  • Folktale transcription
  • Conversational passage
  • References
  • Index

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