Ebook: A comparison of the Papiamentu and Jamaican Creole verbal systems

Издательство: McGill University
Год: 1974
Количество страниц: 116This study is an attent to explore systematicalry the nature of the African influence on the verbal systems of two caribbean Creoles: Papiamento and Jamaican Creole. The Caribbean Creoles share certain grammatical features. These features, according to the amgenetic theory, are of Portuguese origine. Our anèlysis shows, that Papiamettto and Jama1can Creole, as weIl as other Caribbean Créoles, share complex grammatical functions that do not exist in the Indo-European languages. The common functions in the Creoles are demonstratrated to be African.