Abstract: This article focuses on the role of congruence in Creole formation and development,
using a competition-and-selection framework. The proposal is that the similarities (the …

In this chapter, I provide an in-depth description of the semantics and structure of the Cape
Verdean noun phrase involving both determined and determinerless nouns. This study …

This paper focuses on the two most distinct varieties of Cape Verdean Creole spoken on the
islands of Santiago and São Vicente. These two varieties are consistently viewed as being …

The main objective of this paper is to test experimentally the role of convergence in language
acquisition (second language acquisition specifically), with implications for creole genesis. …

… Author links open overlay panel Miki Obata a , Samuel Epstein b 1 , Marlyse Baptista b 1 …
(See Baptista (1993) for detailed discussion of ki.) In addition, the same holds in embedded …

This book offers an in-depth treatment of a variety of morpho-syntactic issues in Cape Verdean
Creole (CVC) both from a descriptive and theoretical perspective. The investigated topics …

This chapter introduces the reader to the areas of previous investigation in creole studies,
while outlining new directions the field is taking. The first section shows that, although the chief …

This thesis investigates the morpho-syntax of nominal and verbal categories in Capeverdean
Creole. The first two chapters provide an analytical description of specific issues in the …

This volume offers a thorough examination of the syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and
discourse properties of noun phrases in a wide variety of creole (and non-creole) languages …

Joint analyses of genes and languages, both of which are transmitted in populations by
descent with modification—genes vertically by Mendel's laws, language via combinations of …