Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages

Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages : 347
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ISBN-10 : 9789027276940
ISBN-13 : 9027276943
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Book Synopsis Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages by : Francis Byrne

Download or read book Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages written by Francis Byrne and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1993-10-28 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume has as its topic, not only the types of formal constructions and devices which creole languages syntactically utilize to achieve constituent focus, but also, in a much broader sense, the many other phenomena and processes found in these languages which serve to highlight sentence-level elements. The book is organized into five sections: 1. verb focus, predicate clefting and predicate doubling; 2. focus and anti-focus; 3. focus and pronominals; 4. discourse patterning; 5. grammatical relations.


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