Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages
| Author | : Francis Byrne |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 347 |
| Release | : 1993-10-28 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9789027276940 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9027276943 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (943 Downloads) |
Download or read book Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages written by Francis Byrne and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1993-10-28 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 sections: 1. verb focus, predicate clefting and predicate doubling; 2. focus and anti-focus; 3. focus and pronominals; 4. discourse patterning; 5. grammatical relations.
