A Description of Papiamentu de Yolanda Rivera Castillo

A Description of Papiamentu: A Creole Language of the Caribbean Area: Grammars and Sketches of the World's Languages / Contact Languages, cartea 17

Yolanda Rivera Castillo

This book constitutes a primary data-supported, comprehensive grammar of Papiamentu. It analyzes spontaneous speech data from two varieties spoken in Aruba and Curaçao. The author examines structural features so far unexplored in the areas of phonology, morphology, syntax, and aspects of sentential semantics. Particular attention is given to nominal classifiers, non-pro-drop syntactic constructions, and absolute tense marking, traits that are rarely described in regards to Creole or Romance languages. Researchers interested in formal analyses of Papiamentu, Creole languages, and in language contact will find this book an indispensable tool.

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Yolanda Rivera-Castillo, Ph.D. (1994), University of California, is Professor of Linguistics and Creole Languages of the Caribbean at the University of Puerto Rico. She has published papers on Papiamentu, Limonese Creole, Haitian Creole, Sign Languages, and Caribbean Spanish. She has worked on the collection and analysis of data for several Creoles varieties and one sign language in the Caribbean region. Her work explores mainly typological phonology, segmental phonetics, metrical and prosodic phonology, the syntax-phonology interface, word order, tense, mood and aspect in Creoles, and number marking. Other interests include applications of technology to L2 teaching, and poetry.

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Editorial Foreword
Peter Bakker
Acknowledgements
List of Tables and Figures
Abbreviations

1 Introduction
1.0General Description and Scope of Work
1.1Justification
1.2Previous Studies of Papiamentu
1.3Objectives and Methodology
1.4Book Organization and Conclusions

2 Morphology and Grammatical Categories
2.0Introduction: Grammatical Categories, Inflection, and the Isolating Type
2.1Lexical Categories
2.2Productive Morphology and Allomorphs
2.3Conclusions

3 Syntax 1—Word Order and Combinatorial Restrictions
3.0Introduction
3.1Fixed Word Order, Verbs, and the non-Pro-Drop Parameter
3.2Determiner Phrase (and Noun Phrase)
3.3Conclusions

4 Syntax 2—Hierarchical Structure, Constituency and the Isolating Type
4.0Introduction
4.1Obligatory Subject Sentence Types and No Expletive in Impersonal Constructions
4.2Subordinate Clauses
4.3Passive Sentences
4.4Phrase Structure
4.5Conclusions
Appendix A: Summary of Structural Types in Papiamentu

5 Segmental Features and Syllable Structure
5.0Segmental Features
5.1Syllable Structure, Consonant Clusters and Vowel Reduction
5.2Nasal Vowels and Nasalization
5.3Vowel Harmony and Metaphony
5.4Conclusions

6 Papiamentu Prosody: Intonation and Lexical Prominence
(co-authored with Lucy Pickering)
6.0Identifying Prosodic Features
6.1A Typology of Stress
6.2A Typology of Tone
6.3The Papiamentu Prominence System
6.4Intonation in Tone Languages and Papiamentu
6.5Conclusions

7 Sentential Semantics
7.0Introduction
7.1The Noun Phrase: Animacy/Gender and Number
7.2The Verb Phrase: Tense, Mood, and Aspect
7.3Conclusions

8 Conclusions and Typology
8.0Papiamentu Structural Features
8.1Papiamentu Morphology and Inflection
8.2Middle of the Road Word Order and Syntax
8.3Phonology and Papiamentu
8.4Meaning, TMA markers, Animacy/Gender, and Number
8.5Innovations in Papiamentu and Creoles as a Typological Class

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References
Subject Index

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