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Author:   Anand Syea
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138015647

ISBN 10:   1138015644
Pages:   520
Publication Date:   05 January 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Creole Languages – an historical overview What is a Creole? How did Creoles develop? Place of Creoles in education Chapter 1 Morphology Affixes - inflectional and derivational Compounding Chapter 2 Nouns Common and proper nouns Concrete and abstract nouns Count and non-count nouns Chapter 3 Articles Definite article Indefinite article Zero article Chapter 4 Pronouns Personal pronouns Possessive pronouns Demonstrative pronouns Reflexive pronouns Chapter 5 Adjectives and Adverbs Pre- and post-nominal adjectives Augmentative and dimunitive adjectives Adjective reduplication Ordering adjectives Adverbs (temporal, locational, manner, reason) Chapter 6 Numerals and quantifiers Types of numerals (ordinal, cardinal) Quantifiers Chapter 7 Verbs Types of verbs (transitive, ditransitive, unaccusative, unergative, control, raising, causative verbs) Verbs and their complements (finite and non-finite complements, defective complements, and small clause complements) Serial verb constructions Chapter 8 Tense, Mood, and Aspect markers Ordering of tense, mood, and aspect markers Modality (possibility, necessity, permission) Chapter 9 Prepositions Types of meaning expressed (e.g. dative, instrumental, location) Chapter 10 Subordination Subordinating conjunctions Adjunct clauses Chapter 11 Questions (types of questions: yes/no questions, wh-questions, multiple wh-questions, wh-in-situ questions, echo-questions) Chapter 12 Relative clauses (restrictive and non-restrictive) Relative pronouns Strategies for forming relative clauses Range of grammatical functions which can be relativized Pied-piping and resumptive pronouns Chapter 13 Focus constructions Cleft constructions Topic constructions Chapter 14 Negation Sentence and constituent negation N(egative)-words Relation between N-words and negation Chapter 15 Sentence structure and word order Subject-less sentences Verb-less sentences Objectless sentences Bibliography

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Anand Syea is Reader in Linguistics at the University of Westminster, UK.

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