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The Song of Kriol: A Grammar of the Kriol Language of Belize

Book information

Publisher
Belize Kriol Project
Year
2013
ISBN
978-976-95215-2-0
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
734 kB (751880 bytes)
Pages
133\133
Topic
Linguistics Foreign
Time added
2020-01-25 19:08:44

Description

Contents ......Page 4 Charts and Figures ......Page 5 Preface ......Page 8 Acknowledgements ......Page 9 1.1 An Introduction to Language......Page 10 1.2 Defining Belize Kriol and Belize Creole......Page 11 1.3 English in Relationship to Kriol......Page 15 1.4 Kriol Language, Culture and Education......Page 16 1.5 Background to the research......Page 18 2.2 Consonants......Page 20 2.3 Vowels......Page 23 2.4 Distribution of Phonemes......Page 30 2.5 Syllable Structure......Page 32 2.6 Higher level phonological features......Page 33 2.7 Historical Changes in Sounds......Page 36 2.8 Sound Variations and Writing......Page 40 3.2 The Process of Orthography Development......Page 42 3.3 The Belize Kriol Writing System......Page 45 3.4 Sentence Constituents and Kriol Punctuation......Page 46 4.1 Nouns......Page 48 4.2 Pronouns......Page 52 4.3 Adjectives......Page 57 4.4 Prepositions......Page 61 4.5 Verbs......Page 64 4.6 Adverbs......Page 65 4.7 Conjunctions......Page 78 4.8 Interjections......Page 80 5.1 Phrases......Page 81 5.2 Clauses......Page 97 5.3 Sentences......Page 112 6.1 Some Discourse Features......Page 115 6.2 Sample Discourse Example......Page 116 APPENDIX A......Page 118 APPENDIX B......Page 119 APPENDIX C......Page 123 REFERENCES......Page 125 INDEX......Page 128

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