Affiliation:
1. University of Chieti-Pescara
Abstract
Abstract
This paper aims to give account of the distribution in Guadeloupean Creole of the form of the complementizer
kè. It claims that it has a specific distribution, as it seems to appear in opposition to the zero form.
Besides a sociolinguistic component, the presence of kè is associable with the fact type semantics of the
completive event (Dixon 2006), and so do other grammatical functions and markers that
are featured in the completive clauses when kè is present, such as independent TAM markers on the verb and the
obligatory featuring of a subject form in case of subject coreference.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics