Predication in Caribbean English Creoles.

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Author / Creator:Winford, Donald.
Imprint:Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1993.
Description:1 online resource (427 pages)
Language:English
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URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11122339
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ISBN:9789027276957
9027276951
6613328081
9786613328083
Notes:5.1 "Take" Serial constructions and "case-marking."
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Summary:This is the first major study of the conservative or basilectal English creoles of the Anglophone Caribbean since Bailey's (1966) and Bickerton's (1975) descriptions of Jamaican and Guyanese Creole respectively. The book offers a comprehensive, unified treatment of the core areas of CEC predication, including the verb complex, auxiliary ordering, voice and valency, copular and attributive predication, serial verb constructions and complementation. Particularly note-worthy is its utilization of an extremely rich data base and a variety of sources to provide an up-to-date, state of the art accou.
Other form:Print version: Winford, Donald. Predication in Caribbean English Creoles. Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, ©1993 9789027252319

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505 0 |a PREDICATION IN CARIBBEAN ENGLISH CREOLES; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Introduction; 1. Preliminaries; 2. Varieties of Caribbean English Creole; 2.1 The Problem of the Continuum; 2.2 Mesolect vs Basilect; 3. Choice of varieties for present analysis; 3.1 Sources of Data; 4. Scope of the book; 5. A framework for formal analysis; Chapter 2. The Verb Complex; 1. Introduction; 1.1 The semantics and uses of TMA categories in CEC; 2. The TMA categories of CEC; 2.1 Tense, aspect and mood; 2.2 Aspect in CEC; 2.2.1 Perfective. 
505 8 |a 2.2.2 Imperfective.2.2.3 The Progressive in JC.; 2.2.4 Current Duration.; 2.2.5 Completive.; 3. Modality in CEC; 3.1 Types of modality; 3.2 Deontic modality in CEC; 3.3 Subjective Deontic uses of mos, kyan and kyaan; 3.4 Epistemic Modality.; 3.4.1 Epistemic mos; 3.4.2 Epistemic kyan; 3.4.3 Epistemic kyaan; 3.4.5 Epistemic sa; 3.5 The "secondary" modals in JC and GC; 3.6 Summary; Chapter 3. Auxiliary Ordering; 1. Introduction; 2. Previous Analyses; 3. GPSG Principles and CEC auxiliaries; 3.1 The Grammar; 3.3 Comparing JC with GC; 4. Summary; Chapter 4. Voice, Valency and Transitivity. 
505 8 |a 1. Introduction2. Transitivity and the creole passive; 2.1 Restrictions on passivization; 2.2 Passivization and the scale of transitivity; 2.3 Pragmatic and other factors; 2.4 Perfective and Passive; 2.5 Enhancing transitivity; 3. Distinguishing passives from other constructions; 3.1 CEC Passives vs English Middles; 3.2 Passive vs anticausative; 3.3 Passives and Predicate adjectives; 3.4 Basic vs "get" "passives" and related constructions; 3.5 Summary; 4. Syntax of the CEC passive; 5. Conclusion; Chapter 5. Copular and Attributive Predication; 1. Introduction; 2. Equative Constructions. 
505 8 |a 2.1 Rules for Predicate Nominal Structures3. Locative Predicate Structures; 3.2 De in Attributive Structures; 4. Attributive Predication; 4.1 Property Items as adjectives; 4.2 Property items in their predicative junction; 4.3 Property items and semantic types in CEC; 4.4 Syntactic Properties of Attributive Predicators; 4.5 Attributive predication in JC; 4.6 Implications for a grammar; 5. Categorial re-analysis of attributive predicators; 6. Implications for other creoles; 7. Summary and Conclusions; Chapter 6. Serial Verb Constructions; 1. Defining Serial Verb Constructions. 
505 8 |a 1.1 Coordination and SVC's1.2 Parataxis vs SVC's; 1.3 Paratactic structures in CEC; 1.4 Other distinctions; 2. Constituent structure of SVC's; 2.1 Argument-sharing in SVC's; 3. SVC's in CEC; 3.1 SVC's and Motion Events; 3.2 "Directional" SVC's in CEC; 3.2.1 The syntax of directional SVC's; 3.3 "Purposive" go and kom; 3.3.1 The syntax of purposive SVC's; 3.4 "Purposive" SVC's with kom/go/gaan; 3.5 Other motion-related SVC's in CEC; 3.6 Other object-sharing SVC's; 4. "Comparative" SVC'S; 4.1 Comparative "more"; 5. Serial verbs and "Case-marking." 
500 |a 5.1 "Take" Serial constructions and "case-marking." 
520 |a This is the first major study of the conservative or basilectal English creoles of the Anglophone Caribbean since Bailey's (1966) and Bickerton's (1975) descriptions of Jamaican and Guyanese Creole respectively. The book offers a comprehensive, unified treatment of the core areas of CEC predication, including the verb complex, auxiliary ordering, voice and valency, copular and attributive predication, serial verb constructions and complementation. Particularly note-worthy is its utilization of an extremely rich data base and a variety of sources to provide an up-to-date, state of the art accou. 
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