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A Description of Papiamentu: A Creole Language of the Caribbean Area

by Yolanda Rivera Castillo
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9789004448827
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Brill
  • Publisher Imprint: Brill
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  • Pages: 260
  • Original Price: USD 139.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 499 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Grammar & Punctuation

This book constitutes a primary data-supported, comprehensive grammar of Papiamentu. It analyzes spontaneous speech data from two varieties spoken in Aruba and Curaçao. The author examines structural features so far unexplored in the areas of phonology, morphology, syntax, and aspects of sentential semantics. Particular attention is given to nominal classifiers, non-pro-drop syntactic constructions, and absolute tense marking, traits that are rarely described in regards to Creole or Romance languages. Researchers interested in formal analyses of Papiamentu, Creole languages, and in language contact will find this book an indispensable tool.

Yolanda Rivera-Castillo, Ph.D. (1994), University of California, is Professor of Linguistics and Creole Languages of the Caribbean at the University of Puerto Rico. She has published papers on Papiamentu, Limonese Creole, Haitian Creole, Sign Languages, and Caribbean Spanish. She has worked on the collection and analysis of data for several Creoles varieties and one sign language in the Caribbean region. Her work explores mainly typological phonology, segmental phonetics, metrical and prosodic phonology, the syntax-phonology interface, word order, tense, mood and aspect in Creoles, and number marking. Other interests include applications of technology to L2 teaching, and poetry.

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