1st Edition

A Comprehensive and Comparative Grammar of English Creoles

By Anand Syea Copyright 2023
370 Pages
by Routledge

370 Pages
by Routledge

370 Pages
by Routledge

A Comprehensive and Comparative Grammar of English Creoles provides a detailed, comprehensive description of the morphology, grammar, and syntax of a selected number of English creoles, including those spoken on both sides of the Atlantic and the Pacific. This book: • Focuses on a number of traditional grammatical categories to provide a comprehensive description and discussion of these... Read more

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Nouns

Chapter 3 Determiners

Chapter 4 Pronouns

Chapter 5 Adjectives and Adverbs

Chapter 6 Verbs

Chapter 7 Tense, Modality, and Aspect

Chapter 8 Prepositions

Chapter 9 Clausal Complements

Chapter 10 Questions

Chapter 11 Relative Clauses

Chapter 12 Foregrounding Constructions

Chapter 13 Negation

Chapter 14 Sentence Structure

Biography

Anand Syea is a Reader in Linguistics within the Humanities department at the University of Westminster, UK. He is the author of French Creoles: A Comprehensive and Comparative Grammar (Routledge, 2016).