The syntax of Jamaican Creole : a cartographic perspective / Stephanie Durrleman-Tame.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Durrleman, Stephanie.

Series:

Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 127.

Linguistik aktuell, 0166-0829 ; v. 127

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creole dialects, English--Jamaica--Syntax.

Creole dialects, English.

Creole dialects, English--Variation--Jamaica.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book offers an in-depth study of the overall syntax of (basilectal) Jamaican Creole, the first since Bailey (1966). The author, a Jamaican linguist, meticulously examines distributional and interpretative properties of functional morphology in Jamaican Creole (JC) from a cartographic perspective (Cinque 1999, 2002; Rizzi 1997, 2004), thus exploring to what extent the grammar of JC provides morphological manifestations of an articulate IP, CP and DP. The data considered in this work offers new evidence in favour of these enriched structural analyses, and the instances where surface orders differ from the underlying functional skeleton are accounted for in terms of movement operations. This investigation of Jamaican syntax therefore allows us to conclude that the 'poor' inflectional morphology typical of Creole languages in general and of (basilectal) Jamaican Creole in particular does not correlate with poor structural architecture. Indeed the free morphemes discussed, as well as the word order considerations that indicate syntactic movement to designated projections, serve as arguments in favour of a rich underlying functional map.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Preface: A tribute to Miss Lou (1919-2006)

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. IP – The articulation of inflection in Jamaican Creole

Chapter 3. CP – The left periphery in Jamaican Creole

Chapter 4. DP – JC nominals and their extended projection

Chapter 5. General conclusion

References

Index of names

Index of subjects

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-186) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612105722

9781282105720

1282105728

9789027290694

9027290695

OCLC:

273909414