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Vergne Vargas, Aida M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This thesis examines the role of the African substrate languages in the emergence of Atlantic Creole grammatical structures. Alleyne (1980) and Faraclas (1990) have convincingly demonstrated that a survey of the grammatical features that typify the Colonial Era English-Lexifier Creoles of the Atlantic reveals remarkable similarities with those…
Descriptors: Grammar, Creoles, African Languages, Contrastive Linguistics