The Creole verb

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Verb Movement in four Creole Languages 1
5. Notes on Componential Diffusion in the Genesis of the Kabuverdianu Cluster 35
6. “High” Kwéyòl 63
7. From Latin to Early Romance 103
8. The Creole verb 133
9. Are Creole Languages “Perfect” Languages? 163
10. The Origin of the Syntax and Semantics of Property Items in the Surinamese Plantation Creole 201
11. Variable Concord in Portuguese 235
12. Nativization and the genesis of Hawaiian Creole 257
13. The Status of Sango in Fact and Fiction. On the one-hundredth anniversary of its conception 301
14. Optimality Theory, the Minimal-Word Constraint, and the Historical Sequencing of Substrate Influence in Pidgin/Creole Genesis 335
15. The Story of kom in Nigerian Pidgin English 353
16. Tense and Aspect in Sranan and the Creole Prototype 383
17. Chaos and Creoles. Towards a New Paradigm? 443
18. Wh-words and Question Formation in Pidgin/Creole Languages 459
19. Index 499