The Noun Phrase in TobagonianSociety for Caribbean Linguistics, c/o School of Education, University of the West Indies, 2001 - Creole dialects - 36 pages |
Common terms and phrases
analysis animacy animate appellative article Possessive associative suffix attributive adjectives basilectal TOB bwai calques Caribbean chail chrii pikni class of referents code where motivate code-mixing competence constituent contextually interpretable count noun countability Creole definite article Definite article/Possessive determinative phrase discourse elements example functions grammatical hōlin a miitin hyee indefinite inflection laik Linguistics locative particle machiz mango mesolectal level modified moni a bank morpheme non-determinative phrases non-specific number reference object of preposition phrase type piipu Plural demonstrative plural form plural marker plural noun plural suffix pluraliser postmodifier postposed postposition premodified noun premodifier appellative Preposed redundant Singular demonstrative singular reference sociolinguistic Southers speakers specific English specifying article specifying determinative structure suffixed by nis syntactic syntax syntax and semantics The/Those tiicha TOB noun phrase Tobago Tobagonian language situation translations Trinidad and Tobago types of noun ungrammatical uniquely identifiable group unmodified varilingual Winford James wuman