Predication in Caribbean English Creoles.

By: Winford, DonaldMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Creole Language LibraryPublisher: Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1993Copyright date: ©1993Description: 1 online resource (427 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789027276957Subject(s): Creole dialects, English -- Caribbean Area -- Verb phraseGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Predication in Caribbean English CreolesDDC classification: 427/.9729 LOC classification: PM7874.C27 -- W56 1993ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
PREDICATION IN CARIBBEAN ENGLISH CREOLES -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1. Preliminaries -- 2. Varieties of Caribbean English Creole -- 2.1 The Problem of the Continuum -- 2.2 Mesolect vs Basilect -- 3. Choice of varieties for present analysis -- 3.1 Sources of Data -- 4. Scope of the book -- 5. A framework for formal analysis -- Chapter 2. The Verb Complex -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 The semantics and uses of TMA categories in CEC -- 2. The TMA categories of CEC -- 2.1 Tense, aspect and mood -- 2.2 Aspect in CEC -- 2.2.1 Perfective. -- 2.2.2 Imperfective. -- 2.2.3 The Progressive in JC. -- 2.2.4 Current Duration. -- 2.2.5 Completive. -- 3. Modality in CEC -- 3.1 Types of modality -- 3.2 Deontic modality in CEC -- 3.3 Subjective Deontic uses of mos, kyan and kyaan -- 3.4 Epistemic Modality. -- 3.4.1 Epistemic mos -- 3.4.2 Epistemic kyan -- 3.4.3 Epistemic kyaan -- 3.4.5 Epistemic sa -- 3.5 The "secondary" modals in JC and GC -- 3.6 Summary -- Chapter 3. Auxiliary Ordering -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous Analyses -- 3. GPSG Principles and CEC auxiliaries -- 3.1 The Grammar -- 3.3 Comparing JC with GC -- 4. Summary -- Chapter 4. Voice, Valency and Transitivity -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Transitivity and the creole passive -- 2.1 Restrictions on passivization -- 2.2 Passivization and the scale of transitivity -- 2.3 Pragmatic and other factors -- 2.4 Perfective and Passive -- 2.5 Enhancing transitivity -- 3. Distinguishing passives from other constructions -- 3.1 CEC Passives vs English Middles -- 3.2 Passive vs anticausative -- 3.3 Passives and Predicate adjectives -- 3.4 Basic vs "get" "passives" and related constructions -- 3.5 Summary -- 4. Syntax of the CEC passive -- 5. Conclusion -- Chapter 5. Copular and Attributive Predication -- 1. Introduction.
2. Equative Constructions -- 2.1 Rules for Predicate Nominal Structures -- 3. Locative Predicate Structures -- 3.2 De in Attributive Structures -- 4. Attributive Predication -- 4.1 Property Items as adjectives -- 4.2 Property items in their predicative junction -- 4.3 Property items and semantic types in CEC -- 4.4 Syntactic Properties of Attributive Predicators -- 4.5 Attributive predication in JC -- 4.6 Implications for a grammar -- 5.Categorial re-analysis of attributive predicators -- 6. Implications for other creoles -- 7. Summary and Conclusions -- Chapter 6. Serial Verb Constructions -- 1. Defining Serial Verb Constructions -- 1.1 Coordination and SVC's -- 1.2 Parataxis vs SVC's -- 1.3 Paratactic structures in CEC -- 1.4 Other distinctions -- 2. Constituent structure of SVC's -- 2.1 Argument-sharing in SVC's -- 3. SVC's in CEC -- 3.1 SVC's and Motion Events -- 3.2 "Directional" SVC's in CEC -- 3.2.1 The syntax of directional SVC's -- 3.3 "Purposive" go and kom -- 3.3.1 The syntax of purposive SVC's -- 3.4 "Purposive" SVC's with kom/go/gaan -- 3.5 Other motion-related SVC's in CEC -- 3.6 Other object-sharing SVC's -- 4. "Comparative" SVC'S -- 4.1 Comparative "more -- 5. Serial verbs and "Case-marking -- 5.1 "Take" Serial constructions and "case-marking -- 5.1.1 Object-sharing 'take' SVC's -- 5.1.2 "Take" and Motion V2's -- 5.1.3 "Instrumental" take -- 6. Serial 'give' -- 6.1 Recipient "give -- 6.2 Benefactive "give -- 6.3 Uses of fu. -- 6.4 Decreolization? -- 6.5 The syntax of "give" SVCs -- 7. Conclusion -- Chapter 7. Complementation -- I. Introduction -- 2. Assertion and se-complements -- 3. Causative and Perception Complements -- 3.1 Causative mek -- 3.2 Perception-verb Complements -- 3.3 Indicative-type complements and "finiteness. -- 4. Fu complements and Related Types -- 4.1 Complements to Aspectual Predicates -- 4.2 Modality Predicators.
4.3 Desideratives, Class A -- 4.4 Desideratives, Class B -- 4.5 Emotive-type Predicates -- 4.6 Manipulative Predicates -- 4.7 Summary and further implications -- 4.8 Fu Complements as Sentential Subjects -- 4.9 "Easy"- type predicates and fu -- 4.10 Fu Purpose Clauses -- 4.11 Quasi-Purposive Structures with Fu -- 4.12 Restructuring in Purposive and Related fu clauses -- 4.13 A brief comparison with the Surinamese creoles -- 5. Conclusion -- Chapter 8. Conclusion -- 1. Some issues in creole studies -- 2 . Similarities among creoles -- 2.1 Tense - Modality - Aspect and the Creole Prototype -- 2.2 Sources of Creole TMA Systems -- 2.3 Similarities in Other Areas of Predication -- 2.4 Copular and attributive predication -- 2.5 Serial Verb Constructions -- 2.6 Complementation -- 2.7 A socio-historical perspective -- 3. Differences Among Caribbean Creoles -- 3.1 The effects of decreolization -- 3.2 Differences in TMA Systems -- 3.3 Changes in Other Areas -- 4. The effects of internal change -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: This is the first major study of the conservative or basilectal English creoles of the Anglophone Caribbean since Bailey's (1966) and Bickerton's (1975) descriptions of Jamaican and Guyanese Creole respectively. The book offers a comprehensive, unified treatment of the core areas of CEC predication, including the verb complex, auxiliary ordering, voice and valency, copular and attributive predication, serial verb constructions and complementation. Particularly note-worthy is its utilization of an extremely rich data base and a variety of sources to provide an up-to-date, state of the art account of predicate structures in CEC. The book presents new analyses of several areas of CEC syntax, including such phenonema as passivization, serialization and complementation, which have not been thoroughly analyzed, if at all, in the previous literature. The areas covered in the book involve a wide range of grammatical phenomena centering around the various sub-classes of verb and their subcategorization. The book consists of an introduction, a conclusion, and six chapters, each of which explores some aspect of the behavior of verbs (or verb-like predicators) and the constructions in which they occur. 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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PREDICATION IN CARIBBEAN ENGLISH CREOLES -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1. Preliminaries -- 2. Varieties of Caribbean English Creole -- 2.1 The Problem of the Continuum -- 2.2 Mesolect vs Basilect -- 3. Choice of varieties for present analysis -- 3.1 Sources of Data -- 4. Scope of the book -- 5. A framework for formal analysis -- Chapter 2. The Verb Complex -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 The semantics and uses of TMA categories in CEC -- 2. The TMA categories of CEC -- 2.1 Tense, aspect and mood -- 2.2 Aspect in CEC -- 2.2.1 Perfective. -- 2.2.2 Imperfective. -- 2.2.3 The Progressive in JC. -- 2.2.4 Current Duration. -- 2.2.5 Completive. -- 3. Modality in CEC -- 3.1 Types of modality -- 3.2 Deontic modality in CEC -- 3.3 Subjective Deontic uses of mos, kyan and kyaan -- 3.4 Epistemic Modality. -- 3.4.1 Epistemic mos -- 3.4.2 Epistemic kyan -- 3.4.3 Epistemic kyaan -- 3.4.5 Epistemic sa -- 3.5 The "secondary" modals in JC and GC -- 3.6 Summary -- Chapter 3. Auxiliary Ordering -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous Analyses -- 3. GPSG Principles and CEC auxiliaries -- 3.1 The Grammar -- 3.3 Comparing JC with GC -- 4. Summary -- Chapter 4. Voice, Valency and Transitivity -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Transitivity and the creole passive -- 2.1 Restrictions on passivization -- 2.2 Passivization and the scale of transitivity -- 2.3 Pragmatic and other factors -- 2.4 Perfective and Passive -- 2.5 Enhancing transitivity -- 3. Distinguishing passives from other constructions -- 3.1 CEC Passives vs English Middles -- 3.2 Passive vs anticausative -- 3.3 Passives and Predicate adjectives -- 3.4 Basic vs "get" "passives" and related constructions -- 3.5 Summary -- 4. Syntax of the CEC passive -- 5. Conclusion -- Chapter 5. Copular and Attributive Predication -- 1. Introduction.

2. Equative Constructions -- 2.1 Rules for Predicate Nominal Structures -- 3. Locative Predicate Structures -- 3.2 De in Attributive Structures -- 4. Attributive Predication -- 4.1 Property Items as adjectives -- 4.2 Property items in their predicative junction -- 4.3 Property items and semantic types in CEC -- 4.4 Syntactic Properties of Attributive Predicators -- 4.5 Attributive predication in JC -- 4.6 Implications for a grammar -- 5.Categorial re-analysis of attributive predicators -- 6. Implications for other creoles -- 7. Summary and Conclusions -- Chapter 6. Serial Verb Constructions -- 1. Defining Serial Verb Constructions -- 1.1 Coordination and SVC's -- 1.2 Parataxis vs SVC's -- 1.3 Paratactic structures in CEC -- 1.4 Other distinctions -- 2. Constituent structure of SVC's -- 2.1 Argument-sharing in SVC's -- 3. SVC's in CEC -- 3.1 SVC's and Motion Events -- 3.2 "Directional" SVC's in CEC -- 3.2.1 The syntax of directional SVC's -- 3.3 "Purposive" go and kom -- 3.3.1 The syntax of purposive SVC's -- 3.4 "Purposive" SVC's with kom/go/gaan -- 3.5 Other motion-related SVC's in CEC -- 3.6 Other object-sharing SVC's -- 4. "Comparative" SVC'S -- 4.1 Comparative "more -- 5. Serial verbs and "Case-marking -- 5.1 "Take" Serial constructions and "case-marking -- 5.1.1 Object-sharing 'take' SVC's -- 5.1.2 "Take" and Motion V2's -- 5.1.3 "Instrumental" take -- 6. Serial 'give' -- 6.1 Recipient "give -- 6.2 Benefactive "give -- 6.3 Uses of fu. -- 6.4 Decreolization? -- 6.5 The syntax of "give" SVCs -- 7. Conclusion -- Chapter 7. Complementation -- I. Introduction -- 2. Assertion and se-complements -- 3. Causative and Perception Complements -- 3.1 Causative mek -- 3.2 Perception-verb Complements -- 3.3 Indicative-type complements and "finiteness. -- 4. Fu complements and Related Types -- 4.1 Complements to Aspectual Predicates -- 4.2 Modality Predicators.

4.3 Desideratives, Class A -- 4.4 Desideratives, Class B -- 4.5 Emotive-type Predicates -- 4.6 Manipulative Predicates -- 4.7 Summary and further implications -- 4.8 Fu Complements as Sentential Subjects -- 4.9 "Easy"- type predicates and fu -- 4.10 Fu Purpose Clauses -- 4.11 Quasi-Purposive Structures with Fu -- 4.12 Restructuring in Purposive and Related fu clauses -- 4.13 A brief comparison with the Surinamese creoles -- 5. Conclusion -- Chapter 8. Conclusion -- 1. Some issues in creole studies -- 2 . Similarities among creoles -- 2.1 Tense - Modality - Aspect and the Creole Prototype -- 2.2 Sources of Creole TMA Systems -- 2.3 Similarities in Other Areas of Predication -- 2.4 Copular and attributive predication -- 2.5 Serial Verb Constructions -- 2.6 Complementation -- 2.7 A socio-historical perspective -- 3. Differences Among Caribbean Creoles -- 3.1 The effects of decreolization -- 3.2 Differences in TMA Systems -- 3.3 Changes in Other Areas -- 4. The effects of internal change -- Bibliography -- Index.

This is the first major study of the conservative or basilectal English creoles of the Anglophone Caribbean since Bailey's (1966) and Bickerton's (1975) descriptions of Jamaican and Guyanese Creole respectively. The book offers a comprehensive, unified treatment of the core areas of CEC predication, including the verb complex, auxiliary ordering, voice and valency, copular and attributive predication, serial verb constructions and complementation. Particularly note-worthy is its utilization of an extremely rich data base and a variety of sources to provide an up-to-date, state of the art account of predicate structures in CEC. The book presents new analyses of several areas of CEC syntax, including such phenonema as passivization, serialization and complementation, which have not been thoroughly analyzed, if at all, in the previous literature. The areas covered in the book involve a wide range of grammatical phenomena centering around the various sub-classes of verb and their subcategorization. The book consists of an introduction, a conclusion, and six chapters, each of which explores some aspect of the behavior of verbs (or verb-like predicators) and the constructions in which they occur. 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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