Seselwa Serialization and its Significance

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9308460
AutoresDerek Bickerton (University of Hawaii System, autor de correspondencia)
Año1989
Volumen4
Número2
Páginas155-183
Fecha de publicación1989-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Pidgin and Creole Languages (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0920-9034 • E-ISSN: 1569-9870
EditorialJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/jpcl.4.2.02bic
OpenAlexW2085029277
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8

Hitherto it has been believed that serial verb constructions were not found in the French Creoles of the Indian Ocean. In fact, there exists a wide variety of such constructions in both Morisyen and Seselwa; extensive examples from Seselwa are provided. However, for less basilectal speakers, such constructions must carry on each verb a tense marker which is identical to that on the matrix verb. This fact, together with the misanalysis of Seselwa i as a reprise pronoun, served to disguise the nature of Seselwa serials. The data surveyed has significant consequences for future studies of creoles and for theories of creole origins

Grammaticalization · Linguistics · Pronoun · Serialization · Variety (cybernetics · Verb · Computer Science · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Artificial Intelligence