Contact and Portuguese‐Lexified Creoles

Cardoso, Hugo C.

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“…There are several published materials dealing with topics in MIP grammar, including Clements (2012), Cardoso (2012Cardoso ( , 2014cCardoso ( , 2019, and Krajinović (2015Krajinović ( , 2018. These works typically highlight the high level of convergence between Malayalam and MIP, most notably in the fact that MIP has an SOV order (Cardoso 2014a), deranked adverbial subordination (Krajinović 2017), postpositions expressing case (Cardoso 2014c), and vector verbs (Cardoso 2015;Krajinović 2018). This paper addresses two problems, namely that (a) the existential, locative, possessive, copulative, and zero-copula constructions differ in many ways from the structures available in the Portuguese lexifier, and (b) nominal and propertydenoting predicates exhibit a high degree of variability in the appearance of the copula.…”

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Existence, location, possession, and copula in Malabar Indo-Portuguese

Krajinović

2019

Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics

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This paper offers a diachronic and a contact-based analysis of existential, locative, possessive, and copulative constructions in Malabar Indo-Portuguese creole (MIP). The existential, locative, and possessive predicates are all expressed with the copulative verb tæ, and nominal and property-denoting predicates can either have the copula tæ or zero copula. I analyze these copulative constructions by establishing their sources in the Portuguese lexifier and Malayalam substrate/adstrate. I show that although the Portuguese verbs ter ‘have’ and estar ‘be’ have paved the way to the semantics of tæ, Malayalam had a strong impact on the morphosyntax and semantics of existential, locative, possessive, and copulative constructions in MIP. This influence is most notable in the case of possessives, which take dative subjects. These findings are compared to the relevant structures in other South Asian languages and show that the existence of locative possession is a strong areal feature of South Asia. I also show that the variability of copula usage in nominal and property-denoting predicates can be explained by variable input from Portuguese and Malayalam copulative constructions. One of the most salient features influenced by Malayalam is the choice of what are etymologically Portuguese nouns instead of adjectives in property-denoting predicates.

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Existence, location, possession, and copula in Malabar Indo-Portuguese

Krajinović

2019

Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics

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Contact and Portuguese‐Lexified Creoles

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Existence, location, possession, and copula in Malabar Indo-Portuguese

Existence, location, possession, and copula in Malabar Indo-Portuguese

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