French Creoles A Comprehensive and Comparative Grammar 1st Edition by Anand Syea ISBN 9781138244825 1138244825

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ISBN 10: 1138244825 

ISBN 13:  9781138244825

Author: Anand Syea

French Creoles: A Comprehensive and Comparative Grammar is the first complete reference to present the morphology, grammar and syntax of a representative selection of French Creoles in one volume.

The book is organised to promote a thorough understanding of the grammar of French Creoles and presents its complexities in

Table of contents: 

Introduction

• Creole Languages – an Historical Overview

• What is a Creole?

• How did Creoles develop?

• Place of Creoles in Education

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Chapter 1: Morphology

• Affixes – Inflectional and Derivational

• Compounding

Chapter 2: Nouns

• Common and Proper Nouns

• Concrete and Abstract Nouns

• Count and Non-count Nouns

Chapter 3: Articles

• Definite Article

• Indefinite Article

• Zero Article

Chapter 4: Pronouns

• Personal Pronouns

• Possessive Pronouns

• Demonstrative Pronouns

• Reflexive Pronouns

Chapter 5: Adjectives and Adverbs

• Pre- and Post-nominal Adjectives

• Augmentative and Diminutive Adjectives

• Adjective Reduplication

• Ordering Adjectives

• Adverbs (Temporal, Locational, Manner, Reason)

Chapter 6: Numerals and Quantifiers

• Types of Numerals (Ordinal, Cardinal)

• Quantifiers

Chapter 7: Verbs

• Types of Verbs (Transitive, Ditransitive, Unaccusative, Unergative, Control, Raising, Causative Verbs)

• Verbs and Their Complements (Finite and Non-finite Complements, Defective Complements, Small Clause Complements)

• Serial Verb Constructions

Chapter 8: Tense, Mood, and Aspect Markers

• Ordering of Tense, Mood, and Aspect Markers

• Modality (Possibility, Necessity, Permission)

Chapter 9: Prepositions

• Types of Meaning Expressed (e.g., Dative, Instrumental, Location)

Chapter 10: Subordination

• Subordinating Conjunctions

• Adjunct Clauses

Chapter 11: Questions

• Types of Questions: Yes/No Questions, Wh-questions, Multiple Wh-questions, Wh-in-situ Questions, Echo-questions

Chapter 12: Relative Clauses

• Restrictive and Non-restrictive Relative Clauses

• Relative Pronouns

• Strategies for Forming

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