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- Title
'Fact type' complementizer in Guadeloupean Creole.
- Authors
Tramutoli, Laura
- Abstract
This paper aims to give account of the distribution in Guadeloupean Creole of the form of the complementizer kè. It claims that it has a specific distribution, as it seems to appear in opposition to the zero form. Besides a sociolinguistic component, the presence of kè is associable with the fact type semantics of the completive event (Dixon 2006), and so do other grammatical functions and markers that are featured in the completive clauses when kè is present, such as independent TAM markers on the verb and the obligatory featuring of a subject form in case of subject coreference.
- Subjects
GUADELOUPIANS; CREOLE dialects; COMPLEMENTIZERS (Grammar); SOCIOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS
- Publication
Journal of Pidgin & Creole Languages, 2021, Vol 36, Issue 2, p336
- ISSN
0920-9034
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/jpcl.00078.tra