The syntax of Cape Verdean Creole

摘要: This book offers an in-depth treatment of a variety morpho-syntactic issues in Cape Verdean Creole (CVC) both from descriptive and theoretical perspective. The investigated topics include the determiner system, Tense, Mood, Aspect markers pronominal paradigms. study TMA reveals configurations with interesting ramifications for syntactic theory parametric variation. targets creolists, linguists, community. Given diversified targeted audience, chapters are purposefully kept separate their counterparts, presenting that later revisited Minimalist framework. data used this primarily drawn 83 transcribed interviews pool 187 speakers. were collected during fieldwork conducted 1997, 2000 2001 Sotavento (leeward) islands representing more basilectal varieties creole. As all natural languages, CVC displays similarities differences other creoles noncreoles. Hence, spirit comparative syntax, volume compares to like Guinea-Bissau noncreoles Portuguese, French, Icelandic Italian dialects.