The history of sentence negation in the Gulf of Guinea Creoles

We discuss the emergence of the cross-linguistically marked discontinuous/final negation pattern in the four Gulf of Guinea Creoles by taking into account the different linguistic strata and their structural profiles that contributed to the formation of the protolanguage, in particular southern N...

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Main Authors: Tom Güldemann, Tjerk Hagemeijer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação de Crioulos de Base Lexical Portuguesa e Espanhola 2019-07-01
Series:Journal of Ibero-Romance Creoles
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Online Access:http://www.acblpe.com/revista/volume-9-2019/the-history-of-sentence-negation-in-the-gulf-of-guinea-creoles