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Abstract In this talk, I will establish a cartography of Passive (and passive-like) Voice(s) for Chichewa (Bantu), use it to explore the observed crosslinguistic variation in passive constructions across languages, and implement the findings in a (pilot) …

Abstract This work analyses the structure of the left periphery in focalized constructions, interrogatives, relatives and topicalized structures in Gude, a Chadic language of Cameroon. Constituent movements are attested in this language, the basic word …

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Abstract Following the seminal work of Rizzi (1997), the left periphery of the clause has received a considerable amount of attention with respect to information-structural marking. It turns out that the marking of categories like topic and focus is not …

Abstract Few languages exhibit uniform patterns regarding the position of (suconstituents, hence the ensuing syntactic configurations, for example, the position of the verb relative to its arguments, the position of various determiners, and the position …

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Abstract Published in 1936, Le créole haïtien: Morphologie et syntaxe is the first research monograph on Haitian Creole (Kreyòl) by a professional Haitian linguist. As far as I know, it's also the first publication that explicitly stated a specific …

Abstract Maman ma trouvé klé-la/ klé-la pou ouvé pot-la/ pot-la si lakarayib ("Kavalyé o Dan’", Kassav’).  In the song "Kavalyé o Dam" by Kassav ’ , which reuses the calls that gather people to dance the quadrille, the key to understanding the …

Abstract We will study some lexical formation processes in Guadeloupean Creole to illustrate the hypothesis of the differential evolution of French according to its environment. On the one hand, we will present the creation of morphological patterns from …

Abstract West African Pidgin (" Pidgin ") and Krio constitute a group of restructured varieties of English, numbering up to 140   million speakers in Nigeria, Cameroon, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Equatorial Guinea and the Gambia. Spoken by just a few thousand …

Abstract The earliest   notations in French Creole are reported speech, brief narratives, extracts from court records, religious documents and so on. The predicates of these Creole statements, derived from French verbs, are not inflected. The temporal …

Abstract Alternation of verb forms, a well-known phenomenon in Indian Ocean Creoles, represents an emerging morphological innovation in the transition of French popular languages (Chaudenson 2003, Henri 2021). In fact, this alternation occurs in all these …

Abstract When talking about relexification (and restructuring) in the context of Papiamentu/o, the focus has usually been on the period between 1650 and 1800, in which supposedly Portuguese word material has been claimed to have been replaced by Spanish. …

Abstract History shows that creole vernaculars are just ordinary language varieties. Five   hundred   years ago, dialectal diversity was a well-known fact in Portugal itself. Whenever merchants moved to new places, they needed to create new trading …

Abstract The territory of Pondichéri, a former French colony in Southeast India, is home to a community that self-identifies with the term Créole and has historically been characterized by a social stratification encompassing two subgroups: the Haut …

Abstract After entering the field of linguistic dynamics with a thesis on the dialectology and diachrony of Romance languages, the field of mixed languages represents the major part of the scientific work of German Romanist Hugo Schuchardt, whose thinking …

Abstract Born of contacts between North American, Caribbean, African and European languages and cultures, Louisiana Creole is the quintessential product of hybridization and syncretism. By examining some of the language's structural and lexical features, …