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This book offers a comprehensive, unified treatment of the core areas of the conservative or basilectal English creoles of the Anglophone Caribbean, including the verb complex, auxiliary ordering, voice and valency, copular and attributive predication, serial verb constructions and complementation. It presents new analyses of several areas of Caribbean English creole (CEC) syntax, including such phenomena as passivization, serialization and complementation. The areas covered in the book involve a wide range of grammatical phenomena based around the various sub-classes of verb and their subcategorization. The book is intended to be a pre-theoretical account of the facts of CEC predication. However, to further elucidate the workings of the grammar and add some degree of explicitness to the description, the author also presents more formal analyses of the grammatical phenomena, employing the framework of Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar (GPSG).

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