Haitian Creole
Subtitle: structure, variation, status, origin
By: Albert Valdman
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Sheffield, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 477
ISBN-13: 9781845533878; 9781845533885
Subjects: French Creole dialects; History; Haitians; Languages; Native language and education
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: 2. The sound system; title: 3. Variation in the form of words; title: 4. Toward a systematic autonomous spelling; title: 5. The structure and development of the lexicon; title: 6. The origin of the HC vocabulary; title: 7. Basic sentence structure; title: 8. The verb system; title: 9. The structure of noun phrases; title: 10. some syntactic processes; title: Geographical and sociolinguistic variation; title: 12. The development of a standard norm and language planning issues; title: 13. The origin and development of Haitian Creole.