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
Introduction Creole Languages – an historical overview
What is a Creole?
How did Creoles develop?
Place of Creoles in education
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 dimunitive 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, and 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 pronouns
Strategies for forming
Biography
Anand Syea is Reader in Linguistics at the University of Westminster (London) and a native speaker of Mauritian Creole.
