The Syntax and Semantics of a Determiner System: A Case Study of Mauritian Creole

(Book #38 in the Creole Language Library Series)

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Within the framework of Chomsky's Minimalism and Formal Semantics, this work documents the development of the Mauritian Creole (MC) determiner system from the mid 18th century to the present. Guillemin proposes that the loss of the French quantificational determiners, which agglutinated to nouns, resulted in the occurrence of bare nouns in argument positions. This triggered a shift in noun denotation, from predicative in French to argumental in MC,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:9027252602

ISBN13:9789027252609

Release Date:November 2011

Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Company

Length:310 Pages

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The Syntax and Semantics of a Determiner System: A Case Study of Mauritian Creole

(Book #38 in the Creole Language Library Series)

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