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Focus and grammatical relations in creole languages / editors, Francis Byrne, Donald Winford.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Creole language library ; 12.
- Creole language library, 0920-9026 ; v. 12
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Creole dialects--Grammar.
- Creole dialects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (345 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 1993.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- section 1. Verb focus, predicate clefting and predicate doubling
- section 2. Focus and anti-focus
- section 3. Focus and pronominals
- section 4. Discourse patterning
- section 5. Grammatical relations.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-32807-0
- 9786613328076
- 90-272-7694-3
- OCLC:
- 769341880
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