Copulas in contact: Kriyol, Upper Guinea Creoles, and their substrate
The present paper aims to describe copulas in Kriyol from a semantic-syntactic perspective and to compare them to copulas in the other Upper Guinea Creoles and certain substrate languages. We will show that in Kriyol the selection of the copula from the paradigm principally depends on two factors: i...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Associação de Crioulos de Base Lexical Portuguesa e Espanhola
2019-07-01
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| Series: | Journal of Ibero-Romance Creoles |
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| Online Access: | http://www.acblpe.com/revista/volume-9-2019/copulas-in-contact-kriyol-upper-guinea-creoles |