Atlantic Creole Syntax

The Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Studies

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 17-47

  Winford, Donald ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

"prototypical" creoles shared (morpho )syntactic properties; Atlantic creole syntax and issues arising from its study a daunting task; Atlantic creoles (ACs) spoken in Africa, Caribbean, South American mainland, North and Central America; Caribbean French creoles (CFCs); Contributions of superstrate and substrate languages; Multi clause constructions in ACs; Restrictive relative clauses in ACs reduced and infinitival relatives; Subordinate clauses those that function as complements; Syntactic phenomena of Atlantic creoles

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EID: 84890659009     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444305982.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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