26 Word classes in Romance-related Creoles
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Abstract
Romance Creole languages are spoken around the world by some 18 million speakers. They are mainly plantation Creoles but some Portuguese Creoles developed around trading posts and Spanish-related Palenquero is a Maroon Creole. Although Romance Creoles share commonalities within each specific group of Creoles, whether Portuguese, Spanish, or French, clear differences also exist between the French creoles of the Atlantic and of the Indian Ocean or between the Iberian creoles of South America, of Africa, and of Asia. Romance Creoles are mainly analytic languages with fixed grammatical categories and reduced inflectional and derivational morphology as compared to their Romance lexifiers. These languages are also characterised by the flexibility and iconicity of some of their linguistic categories. The chapter surveys three major lexical classes (Nouns, Verbs, and Adjectives), ideophones, and the morphological process of reduplication in Romance Creoles.
Abstract
Romance Creole languages are spoken around the world by some 18 million speakers. They are mainly plantation Creoles but some Portuguese Creoles developed around trading posts and Spanish-related Palenquero is a Maroon Creole. Although Romance Creoles share commonalities within each specific group of Creoles, whether Portuguese, Spanish, or French, clear differences also exist between the French creoles of the Atlantic and of the Indian Ocean or between the Iberian creoles of South America, of Africa, and of Asia. Romance Creoles are mainly analytic languages with fixed grammatical categories and reduced inflectional and derivational morphology as compared to their Romance lexifiers. These languages are also characterised by the flexibility and iconicity of some of their linguistic categories. The chapter surveys three major lexical classes (Nouns, Verbs, and Adjectives), ideophones, and the morphological process of reduplication in Romance Creoles.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Manuals of Romance Linguistics V
- Table of Contents VII
- Abbreviations XI
- Introduction 1
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I. Romance word classes: theoretical and historical foundations
- 1 Theoretical foundation for a classification of words 13
- 2 How to classify words 41
- 3 Word classes in the history of Western grammar 69
- 4 Parts of speech in the Romance grammars of the Renaissance 97
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II. Word classes in the major Romance languages
- 5 Nouns 117
- 6 Adjectives 147
- 7 Determiners 177
- 8 Pronouns 207
- 9 Quantifiers 237
- 10 Negation and negative expressions 265
- 11 Verb classes 297
- 12 Auxiliary verbs 325
- 13 Grammatical categories of the verb 345
- 14 Verbal categories expressing syntactic dependencies 367
- 15 Adverbs 401
- 16 Focalisers 431
- 17 Modal particles 449
- 18 Prepositions 471
- 19 Conjunctions 499
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III. Word classes in smaller Romance varieties
- 20 Word classes in Occitan 527
- 21 Word classes in Sardinian 549
- 22 Word classes in Romansh 575
- 23 Word classes in Ladin 607
- 24 Word classes in Northern Italian dialects 633
- 25 Word classes in Southern Italian dialects 661
- 26 Word classes in Romance-related Creoles 689
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IV. Romance word classes and their interfaces: new horizons
- 27 Word classes and psycholinguistics 725
- 28 Word classes and learner varieties 743
- 29 Word classes and corpus linguistics 769
- 30 Word classes and neurolinguistics 797
- 31 Exploring the behaviour of connectives within a textometric perspective 819
- Index 843
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Manuals of Romance Linguistics V
- Table of Contents VII
- Abbreviations XI
- Introduction 1
-
I. Romance word classes: theoretical and historical foundations
- 1 Theoretical foundation for a classification of words 13
- 2 How to classify words 41
- 3 Word classes in the history of Western grammar 69
- 4 Parts of speech in the Romance grammars of the Renaissance 97
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II. Word classes in the major Romance languages
- 5 Nouns 117
- 6 Adjectives 147
- 7 Determiners 177
- 8 Pronouns 207
- 9 Quantifiers 237
- 10 Negation and negative expressions 265
- 11 Verb classes 297
- 12 Auxiliary verbs 325
- 13 Grammatical categories of the verb 345
- 14 Verbal categories expressing syntactic dependencies 367
- 15 Adverbs 401
- 16 Focalisers 431
- 17 Modal particles 449
- 18 Prepositions 471
- 19 Conjunctions 499
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III. Word classes in smaller Romance varieties
- 20 Word classes in Occitan 527
- 21 Word classes in Sardinian 549
- 22 Word classes in Romansh 575
- 23 Word classes in Ladin 607
- 24 Word classes in Northern Italian dialects 633
- 25 Word classes in Southern Italian dialects 661
- 26 Word classes in Romance-related Creoles 689
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IV. Romance word classes and their interfaces: new horizons
- 27 Word classes and psycholinguistics 725
- 28 Word classes and learner varieties 743
- 29 Word classes and corpus linguistics 769
- 30 Word classes and neurolinguistics 797
- 31 Exploring the behaviour of connectives within a textometric perspective 819
- Index 843
