Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages

Creole Language Library #12

by Francis Byrne (Editor), Donald Winford (Editor)

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 1. verb focus, predicate clefting and predicate doubling; 2. focus and anti-focus; 3. focus and pronominals; 4. discourse patterning; 5. grammatical relations.

345 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1993