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Volume 27, Issue 1
  • ISSN 0920-9034
  • E-ISSN: 1569-9870
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Abstract

This paper presents morphosyntactic and sentential information on Mauritian Creole (MC), a French-lexifier creole which has been underrepresented in many studies of Creole morphosyntactic typology. Typological features from Holm & Patrick (2007), Bickerton (1981, 1984), Taylor (1971, 1977), Markey (1982), and Dryer (1992), most of which have previously been assembled as being diagnostic of a language’s creole status, are presented here with examples from contemporary MC. MC sentences from sets of comparative creolistic sentences in Hancock (1975, 1987) are presented in Appendix A. The material demonstrates abundantly that MC exhibits the vast majority of features which have been deemed typical of creole languages over the past four decades.

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2012-01-01
2024-12-09
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  • Article Type: Research Article
Keyword(s): Ile de France Creole; Indian Ocean Creole; Mauritian Creole; Seselwa; typology
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