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Author:   Yolanda Rivera Castillo
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   17
Weight:   0.557kg
ISBN:  

9789004448827

ISBN 10:   9004448829
Pages:   242
Publication Date:   23 June 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Editorial Foreword  Peter Bakker Acknowledgements List of Tables and Figures Abbreviations 1 Introduction  1.0 General Description and Scope of Work  1.1 Justification  1.2 Previous Studies of Papiamentu  1.3 Objectives and Methodology  1.4 Book Organization and Conclusions 2 Morphology and Grammatical Categories  2.0 Introduction: Grammatical Categories, Inflection, and the Isolating Type  2.1 Lexical Categories  2.2 Productive Morphology and Allomorphs  2.3 Conclusions 3 Syntax 1—Word Order and Combinatorial Restrictions  3.0 Introduction  3.1 Fixed Word Order, Verbs, and the non-Pro-Drop Parameter  3.2 Determiner Phrase (and Noun Phrase)  3.3 Conclusions 4 Syntax 2—Hierarchical Structure, Constituency and the Isolating Type  4.0 Introduction  4.1 Obligatory Subject Sentence Types and No Expletive in Impersonal Constructions  4.2 Subordinate Clauses  4.3 Passive Sentences  4.4 Phrase Structure  4.5 Conclusions  Appendix A: Summary of Structural Types in Papiamentu 5 Segmental Features and Syllable Structure  5.0 Segmental Features  5.1 Syllable Structure, Consonant Clusters and Vowel Reduction  5.2 Nasal Vowels and Nasalization  5.3 Vowel Harmony and Metaphony  5.4 Conclusions 6 Papiamentu Prosody: Intonation and Lexical Prominence  (co-authored with Lucy Pickering)  6.0 Identifying Prosodic Features  6.1 A Typology of Stress  6.2 A Typology of Tone  6.3 The Papiamentu Prominence System  6.4 Intonation in Tone Languages and Papiamentu  6.5 Conclusions 7 Sentential Semantics  7.0 Introduction  7.1 The Noun Phrase: Animacy/Gender and Number  7.2 The Verb Phrase: Tense, Mood, and Aspect  7.3 Conclusions 8 Conclusions and Typology  8.0 Papiamentu Structural Features  8.1 Papiamentu Morphology and Inflection  8.2 Middle of the Road Word Order and Syntax  8.3 Phonology and Papiamentu  8.4 Meaning, TMA markers, Animacy/Gender, and Number  8.5 Innovations in Papiamentu and Creoles as a Typological Class Glossary References Subject Index

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Yolanda Rivera-Castillo, Ph.D. (1994), University of California, is Professor of Linguistics and Creole Languages of the Caribbean at the University of Puerto Rico. She has published papers on Papiamentu, Limonese Creole, Haitian Creole, Sign Languages, and Caribbean Spanish. She has worked on the collection and analysis of data for several Creoles varieties and one sign language in the Caribbean region. Her work explores mainly typological phonology, segmental phonetics, metrical and prosodic phonology, the syntax-phonology interface, word order, tense, mood and aspect in Creoles, and number marking. Other interests include applications of technology to L2 teaching, and poetry.

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