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Vowel Space in English: Regional Variants and their Perception by Japanese Learners of English
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The predicate marker li in Mauritian Creole
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Guillemin, Diana. - : School of English, Media Studies & Art History, University of Queensland, 2007
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Abstract:
There is a morpheme 'li' in Mauritian Creole (MC), which is homophonous with the 3sg pronoun, and which, in the early creole, occurs frequently between the subject and the predicate in affirmative, present tense clauses. I propose that that 'li' may have originated as a resumptive pronoun, co-referential with the subject, but following the grammaticalization of new determiner elements to mark the semantic contrasts of [±definite] and singular vs. plural, 'li' has now grammaticalized into a predicate marker. Its presence is sensitive to both the nature of the predicate, and to the definiteness and specificity features of the subject NP. My analysis is within the framework of Truth Conditional Semantics, where indefinite NPs are analyzed as variables that get introduced into the discourse, and must be bound by an operator to yield a closed proposition, with a truth value. Drawing on a comparison with a cognative morpheme 'i' in Seychellois Creole, I claim that its path to grammaticalization is linked to that of the specificity marking 'la'.
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2004 Linguistics; 380200 Linguistics; 380206 Language in Time and Space (incl. Historical Linguistics; 380207 Linguistic Structures (incl. Grammar; 751002 Languages and literacy; 751005 Communication across languages and cultures; Creole languages; Defiiniteness; Determiner; Dialectology); E1; Grammaticalization; Indefinite; Lexicon; Mauritian Creole; Phonology; Predicate; Quanitification; Referentiality; Semantics; Semantics); Seychellois Creole; Specificity
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URL: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:13124/GuilleminDM_ALS2006.pdf https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:13124
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Accoustic and perceptual cues for compound-phrasal contrasts in Vietnamese
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Modal functions of future tenses in French
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Wales, M. L.. - : School of English, Media Studies & Art History, University of Queensland, 2007
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Some remarks about The 'Cambridge Grammar of the English Language'
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Is Generative Grammar deceptively simple or simply deceptive?
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The Mora, Foot and Geminate Consonants in Japanese
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Otaka, H.. - : The University of Queensland, School of English, Media Studies and Art History, 2006
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The role of animacy and definiteness in the clitic-DP nexus
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Explorations in English vowel space : regional variants and their perception by Japanese learners of English
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Misono, Kazuo. - : The University of Queensland, School of English, Media Studies and Art History, 2006
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Blending and categorization in discourse
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Lee, D A. - : Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association, 2006
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Why children and adults sometimes (but not always) compute implicatures
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Aspectual coercion and on-line processing: The case of iteration
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