The Syntax of Cape Verdean Creole

Baptista, Marlyse

doi:10.1075/la.54

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“…Unlike Aruban Pp, that series does not have an emphatic interpretation (Baptista, 2002:48). It is also noteworthy that, based largely on distributional asymmetries, a distinction similar to that made here for Pp between clitic and nonclitic pronouns has been recognized in the case of Cape Verdean Creole (Baptista, 2002), Saramaccan (Veenstra, 1994) and Palenquero (see Schwegler, 2002).…”

Section: The Pronominal Formssupporting

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The prosody-syntax interface and the status of pronouns in Papiamentu

Kouwenberg

2007

Journal of Portuguese Linguistics

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Section: The Pronominal Formssupporting

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The prosody-syntax interface and the status of pronouns in Papiamentu

Kouwenberg

2007

Journal of Portuguese Linguistics

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“…Although the Cape Verdean TMA system has been relatively well studied (Silva 1985;Quint 2000;Veiga 2000;Baptista 2002;Pratas 2007;Tavares 2012), no systematic comparison of core markers of Tense, Mood and Aspect in the two varieties has been conducted. Authors like Veiga (2000) and Delgado (2008) have provided contrastive listings of the markers in the two varieties but have not analyzed in which ways they converge or diverge from each other.…”

Section: Some Key Grammatical Features In the Two Varieties: Verbs Anmentioning

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“…Such variation has not deterred linguists involved in the description of the language from providing insightful accounts of individual varieties. The variety spoken on the island of Santiago has been particularly well documented (Lopes da Silva 1957;Silva 1985;Silva 1990;Veiga 2000;Quint 2000;Baptista 2002;Alexandre 2009;Pratas 2007;Lang 2009 among other contemporary studies). However, very few studies have focused on the varieties of Barlavento.…”

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Continuum and variation in Creoles

Baptista

2015

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This paper focuses on the two most distinct varieties of Cape Verdean Creole spoken on the islands of Santiago and São Vicente. These two varieties are consistently viewed as being in opposition to each other on historical, linguistic, political and cultural grounds. This paper examines the historical and linguistic aspects of this particular case. Historically, the island of Santiago was settled in 1461 and the island of São Vicente most likely around 1894 (Andrade, 1996), more than 400 years later. Linguistically, for the past 120 years (Brito, 1888), these two varieties have been traditionally described as being at opposite sides of the creole continuum, the Santiago variety, the oldest of the two, being portrayed as basilectal and the São Vicente variety, of more recent origins, as acrolectal. Focusing on the Tense Mood Aspect markers of these two varieties, the synchronic examination highlights their similarities and differences. The diachronic analysis explores the etymological origins of these forms and the developmental process that they have undergone and reveals that the traces of the founding languages may still be readily detectable in the Santiago variety. Finally, our findings invite us to revisit how these two varieties have been characterized for the past 120 years as being representative of a basilect (Santiago) and an acrolect (São Vicente) on the creole continuum. We show that such a characterization should be much more nuanced.

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“…As for the variation in some structures, there are some studies that, although focused on one of the varieties, use some data from the others to compare specific morphological features (e.g. Silva 1985, 1990, Suzuki 1994, Veiga 1995, Baptista 2002, Swolkien 2014. Nevertheless, as was just referred, most singularities of this linguistic variation are still undocumented, let alone analysed under a formal approach.…”

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Progressive forms and meanings: the curious case of Capeverdean

Pratas

2018

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The progressive may be described as a periphrastic construction (auxiliary + non-finite verb; for instance, in English: be + V-ing) which denotes an ongoing situation at a given time, be it an instant or an interval. This general picture, however, has faced two descriptive challenges: (i) those same forms may also appear associated with other temporal readings; (ii) the progressive meaning may also be obtained through other grammatical forms. The current paper approaches these apparent mismatches from the perspective of two varieties of Capeverdean, whose arrangements between forms and meanings of the progressive may provide a crucial insight to this cross-linguistic puzzle. The description and discussion of novel data support the two steps in a brand-new proposal for this Portuguese-based Creole: (a) the superficially different morphemes that mark the progressive have a unique diachronic path, involving the preverbal marker ta and a complete progressive cycle; (b) if we frame the temporal meaning of the progressive somewhat differently, considering the existence, under specific pragmatic conditions, of a precursory stage, at least one of the mentioned mismatches will be resolved. An additional contribution of the current discussion concerns the expression of time reference in natural language, namely that past, present or future meanings do not necessarily depend on dedicated tense morphemes.

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The Syntax of Cape Verdean Creole

Cited by 91 publications

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The prosody-syntax interface and the status of pronouns in Papiamentu

The prosody-syntax interface and the status of pronouns in Papiamentu

Continuum and variation in Creoles

Progressive forms and meanings: the curious case of Capeverdean

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