TY - JOUR
T1 - The complex of creole typological features: The case of Mauritian Creole
AU - Grant, Anthony P
AU - Guillemin, Diana
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - 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 contemporary MC. MC sentences from sets of comparative creolistic sentences in Hancock (1975, 1987) are presented in Appendix A. The material demonstrates abundantly that MC exhibits the vast majority of features which have been deemed typical of creole languages over the past four decades.
AB - 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 contemporary MC. MC sentences from sets of comparative creolistic sentences in Hancock (1975, 1987) are presented in Appendix A. The material demonstrates abundantly that MC exhibits the vast majority of features which have been deemed typical of creole languages over the past four decades.
U2 - 10.1075/jpcl.27.1.02gra
DO - 10.1075/jpcl.27.1.02gra
M3 - Article (journal)
SN - 0920-9034
VL - 27
SP - 48
EP - 104
JO - Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
JF - Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
IS - 1
ER -