Passive in Jamaican Creole
Phonetically Empty But Syntactically Active
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14859797 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Darlene Lacharité (Université Laval, corresponding author), Jean Wellington (University of the West Indies, Mona), Jean Susorney Wellington (University of the West Indies) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 259-283 |
| Publication date | 1999-12-31 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0920-9034 • E-ISSN: 1569-9870 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/jpcl.14.2.02lac |
| OpenAlex | W2022114869 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Because Jamaican Creole lacks the familiar morphological indicators of the passive that characterize English, its lexifier language, it has sometimes been assumed that Jamaican either lacks a passive, or that its passive is fundamentally different from that of English. However, a Government and Binding analysis explicitly shows that Jamaican Creole has a passive and that it is formed, syntactically, in the same way as morphologically signaled passives, including that of English. The conclusion is that there is, indeed, a passive morpheme in Jamaican Creole which, though devoid of phonetic content, behaves the same as the overt passive morphemes of other languages
Creole language · English-based creole languages · Foreign language · Government (linguistics · Linguistics · Modern language · Morpheme · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2024 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |