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Investigating a benefactive-applicative account of the BAY SVC in Guadeloupean Creole| title | Investigating a benefactive-applicative account of the BAY SVC in Guadeloupean Creole |
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| start_date | 2024/02/19 |
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| schedule | 14h-16h |
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| online | yes |
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| location_info | Zoom |
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| summary | Creole languages often exhibit SVCs. A look at APiCS shows that about half of the languages represented in the database use ’give’ serials to introduce a recipient or beneficiary. This includes Guadeloupean Creole (GC). It has, however, been argued that Guadeloupean BAY ’give’ in serial-like constructions is more accurately analysed as a prepositions. This suggested reanalysis is based on: 1) BAY ’s ability to be focused with the recipient/beneficiary (1)-(2), and 2) the observation that many contemporary speakers often replace BAY with the preposition POU (Colot and Ludwig 2013).
(1) Ig ́ennie ka p`ot ́e mango ba Igenn Eugenie prog bring mango give Eugene
’Eugenie is bringing mangos for Eugene.’
(2) Ba Igenn Ig ́ennie ka po`t ́e mango.
give Eugene Eugenie prog bring mango ’For Eugene Eugenie is bringing mangos.’
This paper argues instead that the preponderance of evidence still supports an SVC analysis. BAY : 1) exhibits the same allomorphic changes as both an independent verb and the V2 in an SVC (Table 1), 2) maintains some semantic distinctions between clauses using BAY and those using POU (3)-(4), 3) cannnot be used recursively (5)-(6), and 4) for some speakers sounds more Kr ́ey`ol where the use of POU is ’very French’.
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| responsibles | Cabredo Hofherr |
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| submitted | published | | 2024/02/15 11:25 UTC |
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