Passive in jamaican creole: Phonetically empty but syntactically active

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 259-283

  Lacharité, Darlene ^a   Wellington, Jean ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Null morphemes; Passive; Passive morphology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989392665     PISSN: 09209034     EISSN: 15699870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/jpcl.14.2.02lac     Document Type: Article

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