Foregrounding and Backgrounding in Haitian Creole Discourse

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Acknowledgements v
3. Contents vii
4. Introduction: Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages ix
5. 1. Verb Focus, predicate Clefting and Predicate Doubling
6. Verb focus in the Typology of Kwa/Kru and Haitian 3
7. The Question of Predicate Clefting in the Indian Ocean Creoles 53
8. Two Types of predicate Doubling Adverbs in Haitian Creole 65
9. 2. Focus and anti-focus
10. Scope of Negation and Focus in Gullah 95
11. Focus in Tok Pisin 117
12. What is it that you said? A study of Obligatory Focalization in Two Creoles and Beyond 141
13. Anti-Focus in Yor•bß 163
14. 3. Focus and Pronominals
15. Subject Focus and Pronouns 189
16. Focus, Emphasis and Pronominals in Saramaccan 213
17. 4. Discourse Patterning
18. Focus, Topic Particles and Discourse Markers in the Belizean Creole Continuum 233
19. Foregrounding and Backgrounding in Haitian Creole Discourse 249
20. 5. Grammatical Relations
21. Expletives in Double-Object Constructions in Haitian Creole 269
22. Reflexives of Ibero-Romance Reflexive Clitic + Verb Combinations in Papiamentu 285
23. Author Index 303
24. Language Index 307
25. Subject Index 311