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The complex of creole typological features

Author(s) -

Anthony P. Grant,

Diana Guillemin

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

journal of pidgin and creole languages

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.225

H-Index - 18

eISSN - 1569-9870

pISSN - 0920-9034

DOI - 10.1075/jpcl.27.1.02gra

Subject(s) - creole language , linguistics , typology , english based creole languages , history , linguistic typology , philosophy , archaeology , foreign language , modern language

This paper presents morphosyntactic and sentential information on Mauritian Creole (MC), a French-lexifier creole which has been underrepresented in many studies of Creole morphosyntactic typology. Typological features from Holm & Patrick (2007), Bickerton (1981, 1984), Taylor (1971, 1977), Markey (1982), and Dryer (1992), most of which have previously been assembled as being diagnostic of a language's creole status, are presented here with examples from contempo- rary MC. MC sentences from sets of comparative creolistic sentences in Hancock (1975, 1987) are presented in Appendix A. The material demonstrates abundant- ly that MC exhibits the vast majority of features which have been deemed typical of creole languages over the past four decades. Keywords: Ile de France Creole, Indian Ocean Creole, Mauritian Creole, Seselwa, typologyFull Tex

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