"Kot nou vire tourne nou tand li" Serial Verb Constructions at the Interface between Grammar and Culture: Case-Study Kreol Seselwa (Seychelles Creole)
Th is paper investigates the form and function of Verb Chains and Serial Verb Constructions (SVCs) in Kreol Seselwa (Seychelles Creole, KS), a French-based Creole language spoken in the Indian Ocean. Prior to Bickerton’s seminal paper in 1989, it was widely assumed that Serial Verb Constructions wer...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Firenze University Press
2020-01-01
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Series: | Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali |
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Online Access: | https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-qulso/article/view/7795 |