Negation and negative concord the view from Creoles / edited by Viviane Déprez, Fabiola Henri.
| Other author | Déprez, Viviane M. |
| Other author | Henri, Fabiola. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018. |
| Description | 1 online resource. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Contact language library, 2542-7059 ; Volume 55 |
| Contents | Negation and negative concord: the view from Creoles / Viviane Déprez and Fabiola Henri -- I. French related Creoles: Sentential negation and negative words in Guadeloupean Creole / Simon Petitjean and Emmanuel Schang -- What is negative? Negative Concord Items, constituent, sentential and expletive negation in Haitian Creole / Viviane Déprez -- A lexicalist account of negation and negative concord in Mauritian / Fabiola Henri -- II. English related Creoles: Negation in Pichi (Equatorial Guinea): The case for areal convergence / Kofi Yakpo -- Licensing negation and negative concord in Atlantic creoles: The case of Vincentian / Paula Prescod -- Negation in Singapore English / Luwen Cao and Zhiming Bao -- III. Portuguese related Creoles: Negation in Cape Verdean Creole: A parametric account / Marlyse Baptista and Emanuel Correia de Pina -- Elements of denial in Capeverdean: The negator ka and the properties of n-words / Fernanda Pratas -- Negation in Korlai Indo-Portuguese / J. Clancy Clements / Negation and negative concord in Guinea-Bissau Kriyol (in comparison with Portuguese, substrate-adstrate languages and other Portuguese Creoles) / Alain Kihm -- IV. Other lexifier: Negation in Palenquero: Syntax, pragmatics, and change in progress / Armin Schwegler -- Cross-linguistic negation contrasts in co-convergent contact languages / Peter Slomanson -- Conclusions / Viviane Déprez and Fabiola Henri. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Negation and negative concord Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018 9789027201928 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018051802 |
| ISBN | 9789027263155 (pdf) |