A Grammar of Berbice Dutch Creole
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A Grammar of Berbice Dutch Creole

  1. 710 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
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A Grammar of Berbice Dutch Creole

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Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. List of tables
  3. Plates
  4. Map of Guyana
  5. Introduction
  6. Part I Introduction to the grammar of Berbice Dutch Creole
  7. 1. Background and methodological aspects
  8. 1.1. Remarks on methodology
  9. 1.2. Some background information
  10. 1.3. Transcription and abbreviations
  11. 2. Word order and movement
  12. 2.1. Introduction
  13. 2.2. Question formation
  14. 2.3. Dislocation
  15. 2.4. Extraposition
  16. 3. Structure of the clause
  17. 3.1. Tense, Mood, and Aspect
  18. 3.2. Negation
  19. 3.3. Adverbs and adverbial clauses
  20. 4. Copular sentences
  21. 4.1. Introduction
  22. 4.2. Copular predication
  23. 4.3. Presentation
  24. 4.4. Other ways of expressing copular meaning
  25. 5. Minor sentence types
  26. 5.1. Coordinating conjunction
  27. 5.2. Comparative constructions
  28. 5.3. Imperatives and prohibitives
  29. 6. The Noun Phrase
  30. 6.1. Modification of the noun
  31. 6.2. Conjunction of NPs
  32. 6.3. Pronouns and their distribution
  33. 7. Adpositional structures
  34. 7.1. Introduction
  35. 7.2. Prepositional structures
  36. 7.3. Postpositional structures
  37. 8. Morphology
  38. 8.1. Affixational morphology
  39. 8.2. Category conversion
  40. 8.3. Compounding
  41. 9. Phonology
  42. 9.1. Segmental phonology
  43. 9.2. Suprasegmental phonology
  44. 9.3. Cliticization
  45. Part II Specific constructions
  46. 10. Purposive and resultative constructions
  47. 10.1. Purposive constructions
  48. 10.2. Resultative constructions
  49. 11. Complement clauses
  50. 11.1. Introduction
  51. 11.2. Interrogative complements
  52. 11.3. Full complement clauses
  53. 11.4. Reduced complement clauses
  54. 11.5. Exceptional complements
  55. 11.6. Small Clause complements
  56. 12. Relative clauses
  57. 12.1. Introduction
  58. 12.2. Free relatives
  59. 12.3. Headed relative clauses
  60. 12.4. fu-relativization
  61. 13. Serial verb constructions
  62. 13.1. Introduction
  63. 13.2. Argument introducing serial verb constructions
  64. 13.3. Modifying serial verb constructions
  65. 13.4. Doubtful cases
  66. 13.5. Discussion
  67. 14. Focus and predicate cleft constructions
  68. 14.1. Introduction
  69. 14.2. Focus constructions
  70. 14.3. Predicate cleft constructions: focus of verbs
  71. 15. Passive constructions
  72. 15.1. Introduction
  73. 15.2. Passivization in Berbice Dutch
  74. 15.3. The interaction between passivization and other syntactic processes
  75. 15.4. Concluding remarks
  76. Part III Texts and basic vocabulary
  77. 16. Texts
  78. 16.1. Personal history
  79. 16.2. Lukuba: Tigri mεtε skelpata (Albertha Bell)
  80. 16.3. Local legends
  81. 16.4. Various texts
  82. 17. Basic vocabulary
  83. 17.1. Introduction
  84. 17.2. Swadesh 100 and 200 word lists of basic vocabulary
  85. 17.3. A discussion of some selected semantic domains
  86. Part IV Vocabulary
  87. Introduction
  88. Word lists
  89. References
  90. Index