The development of genitives in Mauritian Creole

Syea, Anand

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“…The house that we built b. The house -that (one) we built A similar development can be seen in MC (see Syea 1996) where the modern relative clause in (76a) is argued to have derived diachronically from (76b), from Pitôt (1805). The relative clause which is simply juxtaposed to the NP in (76b) is incorporated into the NP, making it NP-internal as in (76a).…”

Section: From Consecutive Imperatives To Serial Verb Constructionssupporting

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Serial Verb Constructions in Indian Ocean French Creoles (IOCs)

Syea

2013

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This paper revisits the debate between Bickerton on the one hand and Seuren, Corne, Coleman and Curnow on the other on the question of whether serial verb constructions exist in the French creoles of the Indian Ocean (namely Seychelles Creole and Mauritian Creole). It examines data particularly from Mauritian Creole (which was rather marginally represented in that discussion) and argues in agreement with Bickerton (1989, 1996) that serial verbs do indeed exist in this creole just as they do in Seychelles Creole. However, it also argues that their presence in these languages must be attributed not to an innate linguistic mechanism (as claimed in Bickerton 1989, 1996) nor to a substrate source (contra Corne et al. 1996, Corne 1999) but to an independent internal development in which consecutive imperatives were reanalyzed as serial verb constructions. It is assumed that, given the socio-historical nature of creole contact situations, consecutive imperatives would have been a prominent part of early input as interchanges between those who spoke French and those who did not would have mostly been in the form of directives (commands, instructions, etc.) which are more often than not expressed through the imperative . However, it is recognized that this development could have benefited from substrate (particularly Malagasy) influence but it remains in the main the result of an internal diachronic process. The proposal outlined has interesting implications for the role of input and the role that adults may have played in the development of creole languages in general and serial verb constructions in particular. Some aspects of creole languages, it is suggested, can be adequately accounted for without having to implicate either an innate linguistic mechanism or wholesale transfer from substrate sources.

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Section: From Consecutive Imperatives To Serial Verb Constructionssupporting

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Serial Verb Constructions in Indian Ocean French Creoles (IOCs)

Syea

2013

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“…The paper is organized as follows. In 2 I present the types of attributive possessive structure in 19 th century Mauritian Creole identified by Syea (1994Syea ( , 1995Syea ( , 2007Syea ( , 2013 and Guillemin (2007Guillemin ( , 2009Guillemin ( , 2011a. Also discussed are a number of issues related to previous work on attributive possession in Mauritian Creole.…”

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“…The length of quotations has been kept to a reasonable minimum. Syea (1994Syea ( : 85, 1995Syea ( : 177, 2007Syea ( : 18, 2013 3) states that three types of attributive possessive structure, which he calls "genitive constructions", are found in early Mauritian Creole. All of these are attested in 19 th century texts.…”

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Attributive possession in 19th century Mauritian Creole

Avram¹

2016

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The paper examines the attributive possessive structures attested in 19th century Mauritian Creole. It is first shown that these include a construction with the preposition pou ‘for’, which has not been mentioned in the literature. The situation in Mauritian Creole is then compared to that in Seychelles Creole, a closely related variety. Also discussed are some of the more general implications of the findings.

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“…While la can be used without sa, the use of sa without la is ungrammatical: (Baissac 1880;Baker 1972;Corne 1986;Syea 1994Syea , 1995Syea , 2007. Baissac (1880) also attributes it to English influence, and it has been analyzed in the light of the English 's genitive construction by Corne (1986) and Syea (1994Syea ( , 2007.…”

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The complex of creole typological features

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Guillemin

2012

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This paper presents morphosyntactic and sentential information on Mauritian Creole (MC), a French-lexifier creole which has been underrepresented in many studies of Creole morphosyntactic typology. Typological features from Holm & Patrick (2007), Bickerton (1981, 1984), Taylor (1971, 1977), Markey (1982), and Dryer (1992), most of which have previously been assembled as being diagnostic of a language’s creole status, are presented here with examples from contemporary MC. MC sentences from sets of comparative creolistic sentences in Hancock (1975, 1987) are presented in Appendix A. The material demonstrates abundantly that MC exhibits the vast majority of features which have been deemed typical of creole languages over the past four decades.

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The development of genitives in Mauritian Creole

Cited by 5 publications

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Serial Verb Constructions in Indian Ocean French Creoles (IOCs)

Serial Verb Constructions in Indian Ocean French Creoles (IOCs)

Attributive possession in 19th century Mauritian Creole

The complex of creole typological features

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