Loss in Berbice Dutch Creole negative constructions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10294669 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Silvia Kouwenberg (0000-0001-7883-2251, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/ling.2000.015 |
| OpenAlex | W2012045626 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 19 |
This paper examines attrition in the use of negative constructions by the last speakers of Berbice Dutch Creole. It does so by ranging speakers on a proficiency scale that takes as reference point a maximum contemporary level of proficiency, construed as including a system of negative constructions, the surface formatives of which can be reconstructed to the contact situation out of which BD arose, and constraints on the interaction of the scope properties of negation and other operators. While loss affects the surface formatives of this system in predictable ways, reducing some of the options available to speakers and generally eroding the clause-final negator in favor of an intruding predicate-initial negator, scope-related properties turn out to be quite insusceptible to change
Creole language · Language contact · Linguistics · Merge (version control) · Negation · Predicate (mathematical logic) · Scope (computer science) · Sociology · Computer Science · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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