Functional Categories in Three Atlantic Creoles

Although there is a fair amount of research on the morphosyntax of the Suriname Creoles, coordination has received surprisingly little attention. Coordination can be seen as a fundamental aspect of grammar that intersects with a number of seemingly different constructions. Using quantitative and qualitative methods, this chapter provides a comparative overview of coordinate structures in the Eastern Maroon Creole or Nengee, and in one of its Western Maroon sister languages, Matawai. It then focuses on coordinate constructions involving the juxtaposition of sentential constituents. The comparison of the distributional, semantic, and pragmatic properties of coordinate constructions within and across the two sets of Suriname Maroon Creoles reveals striking differences reported here for the first time.

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Issues on the history of Portuguese in and of Brazil

Callou

2018

Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics

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The aim of this chapter is twofold: (i) primarily, to raise questions that will contribute to the discussion of the origins of the Brazilian variety of the Portuguese language and (ii) secondarily, to focus on 3rd person plural agreement in Brazilian Portuguese (os meninos estud am/ os meninos estud aØ – “the boys study”), taking into account the hypotheses that Brazilian Portuguese (BP) may have its roots in European Portuguese (EP) or may be the effect of intense linguistic contact, by irregular linguistic transmission. The position argued is that there is not only one history, but rather many histories of Brazilian Portuguese and it is necessary to relate linguistic to social data and observe demographic characteristics from place to place.

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Functional Categories in Three Atlantic Creoles

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Grammars are robustly transmitted even during the emergence of creole languages

Grammars are robustly transmitted even during the emergence of creole languages

Coordination in the Suriname Creoles

Issues on the history of Portuguese in and of Brazil

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