A grammar of Saramaccan Creole / by John H. McWhorter, Jeff Good.

Saramaccan has been central to various debates regarding the origin and nature of creole languages. Being the most removed of all English-based creoles from European language structure in terms of phonology, morphology and syntax, it has been seen as one of the most extreme instantiations of the cre...

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Main Authors: McWhorter, John H. (Author), Good, Jeff (Author)
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Published: Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, ©2012.
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520 |a Saramaccan has been central to various debates regarding the origin and nature of creole languages. Being the most removed of all English-based creoles from European language structure in terms of phonology, morphology and syntax, it has been seen as one of the most extreme instantiations of the creolization process. This is the first full-length description of Saramaccan. The grammar documents, in particular, a valence-sensitive system of indicating movement and direction via serial verb constructions, hitherto overlooked amidst the generalized phenomenon of serialization itself. 
505 0 |a Segmental phonology -- Prosodic phonology -- Morphology and morphophonetics -- The noun phrase -- Personal pronouns -- Adjectives -- Core predicate phrase modifiers: negators, tense, aspect, and modals -- Verb serialization -- Coordination and subordination -- Passive and imperative -- Questions -- Nonverbal predication and be-verbs -- Position, direction, and time -- Adverbial modification -- Information structure -- Numerals and other time expressions -- Lexical variation -- Word list -- Folktale transcription -- Conversational passage. 
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650 0 |a Creole dialects. 
650 7 |a FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY  |x Creole Languages.  |2 bisacsh 
650 7 |a Creole dialects  |2 fast 
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880 8 |6 505-00/(S  |a 6.6. Color terms -- 7 Core predicate phrase modifiers: Negators, tense, aspect, and modals -- 7.1. Negation -- 7.1.1. Predicate negation -- 7.1.2. Irregularity in surface manifestation of negative marking -- 7.1.3. Negative quantifiers -- 7.2. Tense markers -- 7.2.1. Past marker bi -- 7.2.2. Future marker ό -- 7.3. Aspect markers -- 7.3.1. Imperfective marker tá -- 7.3.2. Grammatical status of bi, ό, and tá -- 7.3.3. Habitual marker lό -- 7.3.4. Past habitual marker náa -- 7.3.5. Durativity -- 7.3.6. Completive marker kaa -- 7.3.7. Κτ̔̈"CC· as completive marker -- 7.3.8. Continuative marker gó dóu -- 7.4. Modal markers -- 7.4.1. Deontic -- 7.4.2. Epistemic -- 7.4.2.1. Probability -- 7.4.2.2. Ability -- 7.4.2.3. Possibility -- 7.5. Order of occurrence -- 8 Verb serialization -- 8.1. Diagnostic issues -- 8.1.1. Taxonomy -- 8.1.2. Constraints on argument sharing -- 8.2. Directional serials -- 8.3. Serials encoding core grammatical distinctions -- 8.3.1. Dá 'give' -- 8.3.2. Degree -- 8.3.3. Repetition -- 8.3.4. Complementation -- 8.3.5. Hortative marker -- 8.4. Serials with moderately grammaticalized meaning -- 8.5. Verbs used serially without change in meaning -- 8.5.1. Kabá 'finish' -- 8.5.2. Other verbs -- 8.5.3. Téi 'take' as "instrumental"-- 8.6. Verb serialization as Sprächgefühl -- 9 Coordination and subordination -- 9.1. Coordination -- 9.1.1. Conjunction -- 9.1.2. Disjunction -- 9.1.3. Exclusion -- 9.2. Subordination -- 9.2.1. Finite complements -- 9.2.1.1. Factive complements -- 9.2.1.2. Hortative complements -- 9.2.1.3. Complements of perception and causation verbs -- 9.2.2. Nonfinite complements -- 9.2.2.1. Control verbs -- 9.2.2.2. Small clauses -- 9.2.2.3. Gerund complements -- 9.2.3. Subordination: Adverbial complement clauses -- 9.2.3.1. Temporal complements -- 9.2.3.2. Purpose complements -- 9.2.3.3. Locational complements. 
880 8 |6 505-00/(S  |a 15.2.1. Given-information marking -- 15.2.2. New-information marking: Nɔ́ɔ and hγε (βΒ -- »͵.".".». Νμπζϟζμλ με λτ̔̈"͵ʹβ·τ̔̈"͵ʹ· -- »͵.".".". Λτ̔̈"͵ʹβ·τ̔̈"͵ʹ· αλγ αγσδοβζαι ϐμκνιδκδλϟπ -- »͵.".".". Λδς ζλεμοκαϟζμλ σδοπρπ εμϐρπ-καοθζλϛ -- »͵.".".ʹ. Ϝδ απ λδς-ζλεμοκαϟζμλ καοθδο ζλ ϟϝδ βμρλγδγ ναπϟ -- »͵.". Cμκβζλαϟζμλπ με εμϐρπ αλγ νοαϛκαϟζϐ καοθδοπ -- »͵.ʹ. Νοαϛκαϟζϐ-καοθζλϛ αγσδοβπ -- »͵.ʹ.». Λτ̔̈"͵ʹβ·τ̔̈"͵ʹ· ῃρπϟ, μλιυ ͅ-- »͵.ʹ.". Λτ̔̈"͵ʹβ·τ̔̈"͵ʹ·κτ̔̈"͵ʹ· ζͅλγδδγ ͅ-- »͵.ʹ.". Πδβδζ -- »͵.ʹ.ʹ. Αςβαα ᾳϟ ιαπϟ ͅ-- »͵.ʹ.͵. Ζλϟδοηδϐϟζμλ βδ -- »͵.ʹ.6. Ζλϟδοηδϐϟζμλ μ -- »6 Λρκδοαιπ αλγ μϟϝδο ϟζκδ δτνοδππζμλπ -- »6.». Cαογζλαι λρκβδοπ -- »6.". Μογζλαι λρκβδοπ -- »6.". Γζπϟοζβρϟζμλ -- »6.ʹ. Εοαϐϟζμλ -- »6.͵. Ϟζκδ βυ ϟϝδ ϐιμϐθ -- »6.6. Γαυπ με ϟϝδ ςδδθ -- »6.7. Κμλϟϝπ -- »7 Ιδτζϐαι σαοζαϟζμλ -- »7.». Γζαιδϐϟπ -- »7.". Εοδδ σαοζαϟζμλ -- Wμογ ιζπϟ -- Εμιθϟαιδ ϟοαλπϐοζνϟζμλ -- Cμλσδοπαϟζμλαι ναππαϛδ -- Οδεδοδλϐδπ -- Ζλγδτ. 
880 8 |6 505-00/Grek  |a 9.2.3.4. Manner complements -- 9.2.3.5. Causal complements -- 9.2.3.6. Conditional complements -- 9.2.3.7. Concessive complements -- 9.2.3.8. Substitutive complements -- 10 Passive and imperative -- 10.1. Valence-decreasing operations -- 10.1.1. Passive voice -- 10.1.2. Middle voice -- 10.1.3. Object omission -- 10.2. Valence-increasing operations -- 10.2.1. Ditransitives -- 10.2.2. Causatives -- 10.3. The imperative mood -- 11 Questions -- 11.1. Yes/no questions -- 11.2. Information questions -- 11.3. Indirect questions -- 12 Nonverbal predication and fte-verbs -- 12.1. Identificational equative predicates: Da -- 12.1.1. Basic traits -- 12.1.2. Irregularities -- 12.1.3. Omission -- 12.1.4. Allomorphy -- 12.1.5. Da as sentential presentative -- 12.2. Class equative predicates: Dέ or da -- 12.3. Locative and other predicates: Dέ -- 12.4. Existential predicates -- 13 Position, direction, and time -- 13.1. Spatial indicators -- 13.2. Deictic adverbials -- 13.3. Direction -- 13.3.1. Some directional verbs -- 13.3.2. Allative and ablative movement -- 13.3.2.1. Ablative -- 13.3.2.2. Allative -- 13.4. Time expressions -- 13.4.1. Units of time -- 13.4.2. Timeline placement of events -- 14 Adverbial modification -- 14.1. Intensifiers -- 14.2. Time adverbials -- 14.3. Adverbs of quantity -- 14.4. Adverbs of manner -- 14.5. Adverbs of frequency -- 14.6. The evidential adverbial construction -- 14.7. Ideophones -- 14.8. Placement of adverbs -- 15 Information structure -- 15.1. C ontrastive focus -- 15.1.1. Impressionistic prominence -- 15.1.2. Contrastive focus on verbs -- 15.1.3. Contrastive focus on arguments and adjuncts -- 15.1.3.1. Fronting -- 15.1.3.2. Contrastive focus marker wε -- 15.1.3.3. Contrastive focus marking with hγε (βΒ -- »͵.».".ʹ. Εμϐρπ καοθδο ϝγε (βΒ γα -- »͵.».".͵. Οδγρνιζϐαϟδγ νομλμρλπ; -- »͵.". Νοαϛκαϟζϐ καοθδοπ. 
880 8 |6 505-00/(S  |a 2.5. Notes on tonal and intonational phonetics and problems of analysis -- 3 Morphology and morphophonemics -- 3.1. Derivational morphology -- 3.1.1. Reduplication -- 3.1.1.1. Deverbal resultatives -- 3.1.1.2. Intensification -- 3.1.1.3. X-like -- 3.1.1.4. Aggregate plural -- 3.1.1.5. Nominalization -- 3.1.1.6. Tone plateauing in reduplicated words -- 3.1.2. The nominalizers -ma and -wã́ -- 3.1.3. An incipient derivational affix-- 3.2. Inflectional morphology -- 3.2.1. Imperfective tá with gó 'to go' -- 3.2.2. Tonal marking of verb serialization -- 3.2.3. Nominal marker a--- 3.3. Morphophonemics -- 3.3.1. Possessive (f)u -- 3.3.2. Other morphophonemic processes with fu -- 3.3.3. Negation and pronouns -- 3.3.4. Third-person singular γε -- 3.3.4.1. After a verb -- 3.3.4.2. With locative marker a -- 3.3.4.3. With negator ητ̔̈Δ»· -- 3.3.4.4. With copula da -- 3.3.4.5. With njã́ 'eat' andfṍ 'beat' -- 3.3.5. Locative (n)a -- 3.3.6. Hortative verb bé -- 3.4. Compounding -- 3.5. Rapid speech phenomena -- 4 The noun phrase -- 4.1. Determiners -- 4.2. Demonstratives -- 4.3. Possession -- 4.4. Relative clauses -- 4.4.1. The accessibility hierarchy -- 4.5. Quantifiers -- 4.6. Coordination -- 4.7. Gerunds -- 4.8. Adjective + wã́ 'one' -- 5 Personal pronouns -- 5.1. Pronominal inventory -- 5.2. Clitic status -- 5.2.1. Third-person singular oblique γε -- 5.2.2. First-person singular m -- 5.3. Second-person singular ju -- 5.4. Pleonastic pronoun -- 5.5. Reflexives -- 5.6. Reciprocals -- 6 Adjectives -- 6.1. Definition of adjectival class -- 6.2. Adjectives and reduplication -- 6.3. Irregularities in reduplication of property items -- 6.4. Resultative adjectives -- 6.5. Comparative constructions -- 6.5.1. Positive comparison -- 6.5.2. Degree of comparison -- 6.5.3. Equal comparison -- 6.5.4. Negative comparison -- 6.5.5. Superlatives -- 6.5.6. Excessives. 
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