The syntax of Jamaican Creole a cartographic perspective - Durrleman, Stephanie (John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2008)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-186) and indexes
The Syntax of Jamaican Creole; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. IP The articulation of inflection in jamaican creole; Chapter 3. CP The left periphery in Jamaican Creole; Chapter 4. DP -- JC nominals and their extended projection; Chapter 5. Conclusion; References; Index of names; Index of subjects; The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today
This book offers an in-depth study of the overall syntax of (basilectal) Jamaican Creole, the first since Bailey (1966). The author, a Jamaican linguist, meticulously examines distributional and interpretative properties of functional morphology in Jamaican Creole (JC) from a cartographic perspective (Cinque 1999, 2002; Rizzi 1997, 2004), thus exploring to what extent the grammar of JC provides morphological manifestations of an articulate IP, CP and DP. The data considered in this work offers new evidence in favour of these enriched structural analyses, and the instances where surface orders