Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages

Abstract

1. Acknowledgements 2. Contents 3. Introduction: Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages (by Byrne, Francis) 4. 1. Verb Focus, predicate Clefting and Predicate Doubling 5. Verb focus in the Typology of Kwa/Kru and Haitian (by Manfredi, Victor) 6. The Question of Predicate Clefting in the Indian Ocean Creoles (by Seuren, Pieter A.M.) 7. Two Types of predicate Doubling Adverbs in Haitian Creole (by Lefebvre, Claire) 8. 2. Focus and anti-focus 9. Scope of Negation and Focus in Gullah (by Mufwene, Salikoko S.) 10. Focus in Tok Pisin (by Sankoff, Gillian) 11. What is it that you said? A study of Obligatory Focalization in Two Creoles and Beyond (by Kihm, Alain) 12. Anti-Focus in Yor*bss: Some Implications for Creoles (by Oyelaran, Olasope O.) 13. 3. Focus and Pronominals 14. Subject Focus and Pronouns (by Bickerton, Derek) 15. Focus, Emphasis and Pronominals in Saramaccan (by Byrne, Francis) 16. 4. Discourse Patterning 17. Focus, Topic Particles and Discourse Markers in the Belizean Creole Continuum (by Escure, Genevieve) 18. Foregrounding and Backgrounding in Haitian Creole Discourse (by Spears, Arthur K.) 19. 5. Grammatical Relations 20. Expletives in Double-Object Constructions in Haitian Creole (by Lumsden, John S.) 21. Reflexives of Ibero-Romance Reflexive Clitic + Verb Combinations in Papiamentu: Thematic Grids and Grammatical Relations (by Muysken, Pieter) 22. Author Index 23. Language Index 24. Subject Index