A Grammar of Berbice Dutch CreoleThe series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto undescribed languages, new and valuable treatments of better known languages are also included. No theoretical model is imposed on the authors; the only criterion is a high standard of scientific quality. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert. |
Contents
112 Interrogative complements | 327 |
113 Full complement clauses | 329 |
114 Reduced complement clauses | 345 |
115 Exceptional complements | 351 |
116 Small Clause complements | 354 |
12 Relative clauses | 361 |
122 Free relatives | 363 |
123 Headed relative clauses | 369 |
| 55 | |
3 Structure of the clause | 61 |
32 Negation | 85 |
33 Adverbs and adverbial clauses | 101 |
4 Copular sentences | 117 |
42 Copular predication | 118 |
43 Presentation | 131 |
44 Other ways of expressing copular meaning | 132 |
5 Minor sentence types | 137 |
52 Comparative constructions | 144 |
53 Imperatives and prohibitives | 148 |
6 The Noun Phrase | 151 |
62 Conjunction of NPs | 163 |
63 Pronouns and their distribution | 169 |
7 Adpositional structures | 191 |
72 Prepositional structures | 192 |
73 Postpositional structures | 203 |
8 Morphology | 229 |
82 Category conversion | 246 |
83 Compounding | 266 |
9 Phonology | 277 |
92 Suprasegmental phonology | 288 |
93 Cliticization | 300 |
Part II Specific constructions | 305 |
10 Purposive and resultative constructions | 307 |
102 Resultative constructions | 316 |
11 Complement clauses | 323 |
124 furelativization | 385 |
13 Serial verb constructions | 389 |
132 Argument introducing serial verb constructions | 393 |
133 Modifying serial verb constructions | 407 |
134 Doubtful cases | 415 |
135 Discussion | 419 |
14 Focus and predicate cleft constructions | 423 |
142 Focus constructions | 424 |
focus of verbs | 436 |
15 Passive constructions | 449 |
152 Passivization in Berbice Dutch | 451 |
153 The interaction between passivization and other syntactic processes | 472 |
154 Concluding remarks | 476 |
Part III Texts and basic vocabulary | 479 |
16 Texts | 481 |
Tigri mεtε skelpata Albertha Bell | 497 |
163 Local legends | 502 |
164 Various texts | 515 |
17 Basic vocabulary | 529 |
172 Swadesh 100 and 200 word lists of basic vocabulary | 531 |
173 A discussion of some selected semantic domains | 538 |
Part IV Vocabulary | 547 |
Introduction | 549 |
Word lists | 553 |
| 679 | |
| 691 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
3poss adjectives adverbs alma Amerindian angga appears Arawak Berbice River bifi bofu cleft cliticization come-PF complement clause compound constituent construction copula creek creole creole languages dang deki dɛn dida discussed Dutch ENGL Ernest King ɛkɛ focus following example free relatives go-PF gruite gutu habu hiri hoso interpretation interrogative jefi jenda jerma jɛnda kɛk kɛkɛ kɛnɛ KNOW-PF kumu Kwakwani language locative lombo main verb mama marker masi mɛtɛ minggi morpheme musu mutɛ negation noko not=RESULT Note noun object passive PAST perfective aspect person-PL plɛkɛ plural postpositional preceding predicate preposition preverbal pronoun reduced form reduplicated reference relative clause relativizer serial verb serial verb constructions snake speakers subcategorizes subject position sukwa titi toko tutu utterance vowel wari wati wh-movement Wiruni woman words εκ εκε