Focus And Grammatical Relations In Creole Languages: Papers From The University Of Chicago Conference On Focus And Grammatical Relations In Creole Languages (creole Language Library)

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. This linguistic study looks at focus and grammatical relations in Creole languages. Topics covered include: verb focus, predicate clefting and predicate doubling; focus and anti-focus; focus and pronominals; discourse patterning; and grammatical relations. For review see: Silvia Kouwenberg, in New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, vol. 70, no. 3 & 4 (1996); p. 369-371