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Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages: Papers from the University of Chicago Conference on Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages

By Donald Winford , Francis Byrne

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Year
1993
ISBN
9027252335, 9789027252333
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
32 MB (34019981 bytes)
Series
Creole Language Library
Pages
345\345
Time added
2015-02-16 17:01:35

Description

The volume has as its topic, not only the types of formal constructions and devices which creole languages syntactically utilize to achieve constituent focus, but also, in a much broader sense, the many other phenomena and processes found in these languages which serve to highlight sentence-level elements. The book is organized into five sections: 1. verb focus, predicate clefting and predicate doubling; 2. focus and anti-focus; 3. focus and pronominals; 4. discourse patterning; 5. grammatical relations.

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