A new analysis of the Papiamentu clause structure
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Silvia Kouwenberg
Abstract
This paper reconsiders the complementiser and the tense-mood-aspect systems of the Papiamentu clause within the framework of the split CP (Rizzi 1997) and the split INFL (Pollock 1989) hypotheses, providing new evidence for the left periphery heads. It provides a detailed account of the Papiamentu morphemes involved that unifies syntactic and interpretive properties. Of particular interest is the proposal that di – which introduces infinitives – and lo – traditionally considered a future marker – both head FinP, and that pa, when functioning as a marker of necessity, heads MoodP. Contra certain claims in the literature, this paper argues that the order of preverbal material is not different from that of other Caribbean creoles.
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- The internal syntactic structure of relational adjectives
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Articles in the same Issue
- The internal syntactic structure of relational adjectives
- A new analysis of the Papiamentu clause structure
- On the locative component of French weather -ça
- On the licensing of overt subjects in Spanish infinitival clauses
- Elucidating the transition period in linguistic change: The expression of the future in Brazilian Portuguese
