Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages
Download or Read eBook Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages PDF 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.
| Author | : Francis Byrne |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 347 |
| Release | : 1993-10-28 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9789027276940 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9027276943 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages by : Francis Byrne
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.
