Noun phrases in Kwéyòl Donmnik

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ID7160494
AuthorsJoy P G Peltier (0000-0001-6551-9004, National University of Malaysia, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume40
Issue2
Pages338-380
Publication date2025-12-08
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Pidgin and Creole Languages (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0920-9034 • E-ISSN: 1569-9870
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/jpcl.00136.pel
OpenAlexW4392081580
LanguageEN
References cited25

Though Creole nominal systems have been intensely researched, in-context, corpus-based examinations are uncommon, and there are Creole languages whose noun phrases remain understudied. I use a corpus of conversational data and a pattern-building task designed to elicit demonstrative and definite noun phrases, exophoric reference, and co-speech pointing gestures to explore the noun phrase in Kwéyòl Donmnik, an endangered, understudied French lexifier Creole. I focus on noun phrases that are bare, marked by the post-nominal determiners definite la ‘the’ or demonstrative sa-la ‘this/that’, or accompanied by the pre-nominal indefinite determiner yon ‘a(n)’. Results pinpoint the readings conveyed by each noun phrase type, identify the word categories of their nouns, and address similarities in usage between definite la and demonstrative sa-la

Creole language · Demonstrative · Determiner · Determiner phrase · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Nominalization · Noun · Noun phrase · Phrase · Physics · Proper noun · Computer Science · History · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Artificial Intelligence

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