Francis Byrne

Biographic Data

ID743968
NAMEFrancis Byrne
GIVEN NAMESFrancis
FAMILY NAMEByrne
SIGNATUREBYRNE F
AFFILIATIONSShawnee State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS14
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT5
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1984
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1995
H-INDEX1

  • Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages

    Michael Aceto, Francis Byrne et al.ARTICLELanguage1995

    1. Contents 3. Introduction: Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages (by Byrne, Francis) 4. 1. Verb Focus, predicate Clefting and Predicate Doubling 5. Verb focus in the Typology of Kwa/Kru and Haitian (by Manfredi, Victor) 6. The Question of Predicate Clefting in the Indian Ocean Creoles (by Seuren, Pieter A.M.) 7. Two Types of predicate Doubling Adverbs in Haitian Creole (by Lefebvre, Claire) 8. 2. Focus and anti-focus 9. Scope of N…

  • The Bioprogram Revisited

    Guillermo Bartelt, Francis Byrne et al.ARTICLEAmerican Speech1994

  • Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages

    Francis Byrne, Donald WinfordBOOKFocus and Grammatical Relations…1993

    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 pron…

  • Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages

    Francis Byrne, Donald WinfordBOOKFocus and Grammatical Relations…1993

  • Atlantic meets Pacific

    Francis Byrne, John A HolmBOOKAtlantic meets Pacific1993

    For review see: Peter Bakker, in New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, vol. 70, no. 1 & 2 (1996); p. 190-192

  • Introduction

    Francis Byrne, Alexander F Caskey et al.CHAPTERFocus and Grammatical Relations…1993

  • Development and Structures of Creole Languages

    Matthias Perl, Francis Byrne et al.ARTICLELanguage1993

  • Atlantic Meets Pacific

    Michael Aceto, Francis Byrne et al.ARTICLELanguage1993

  • Atlantic Meets Pacific

    Francis Byrne, John HolmBOOKAtlantic meets Pacific1992

    Selected papers from the Society for Pidgin and Creole linguistics.

  • Tense, Scope, And Spreading in Saramaccan

    Francis ByrneARTICLEJournal of Pidgin and Creole…1992

    A unified theory is developed in this paper to account in a comprehensive way for variable tense marking patterns in the serial verb constructions found in Saramaccan, a creole language of the central interior of Suriname. The disparate patterns include verb initial marking, tense copy, and the problematic single marking on any noninitial verb in a serial string. It is argued that regardless of which tense pattern occurs in a given serial structu…

  • Development and Structures of Creole Languages

    Francis Byrne, Thom HuebnerBOOKDevelopment and Structures of…1991

    This collection of original essays is intended to both celebrate Derek Bickerton's sixty-fifth birthday and honor his long and eminent career. Each author included in the volume is a noted scholar who has distinguished him/herself in some area of linguistics and has professionally or personally interacted with Bickerton and been influenced by his work. While the papers make independent thematic contributions, they also discuss, augment, present a…

  • Development and Structures of Creole Languages

    Francis Byrne, Thom HuebnerBOOKDevelopment and Structures of…1991

  • Toward an account of preclausal focus in some creole languages

    Open AccessFrancis ByrneARTICLELinguistics1990Cited by: 1

  • Deixis as a noncomplementizer strategy for creole Subordination marking

    Open AccessFrancis ByrneARTICLELinguistics1988Cited by: 1References: 1

  • Francis X. Byrne

    Francis ByrneARTICLEJournal of Pidgin and Creole…1986

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  • Fi and fu

    Open AccessFrancis ByrneARTICLELingua1984Cited by: 1References: 5