Recent Development in Creole Studies

This volume provides the reader with an update on the ongoing research in creole studies. The papers represent several lines of research in the study of Creole languages. Central issues in phonology, semantics, lexicon and syntax are addressed in various creole languages. These include Cape Verdean Creole, Haitian Creole, Lesser Antillean Creoles, Kriol, Saramaccan, and Sranan.

Résumé

Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten [Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new knowledge about human languages both synchronically and diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality linguistic studies from all the central areas of general linguistics and the linguistics of individual languages which address topical questions, discuss new data and advance the development of linguistic theory.

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Contents: Dany Adone, Introduction. - Jean-Robert Cadely, Nasality in Haitian Creole. - Norval Smith, Evidence for Recursive Syllable Structures in Aluku and Sranan. - John S. Lumsden, Relexification, Reversed Interference, Double Signals and the Organization of the Mental Lexicon. - Richard Larson, Event Description in Fongbe and Haitian Creole. - Dany Adone, Restricted Verb Movement in Ngukurr Kriol. - Marlyse Baptista, Licensing Conditions on Cliticization in Cape Verdean Creole. - Viviane Déprez, Haitian Creole: A Copula, a Pronoun, Both or Neither? On the Double Life of a Functional Head. - Karl Erland Gadelii, Some Un-French Properties of Lesser Antillean Grammar. - Alain Kihm, Haitian Construct State Nominals: a Creole Contribution to the Theory of Genitive Phrases. - Tonjes Veenstra, Menage à Trois: How Promiscuous are Objects in Resultatives?