2014
DOI: 10.1017/s1470542714000099
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What's Past Is Past: Variation in the Expression of Past Time Reference in Negerhollands Narratives

Abstract: Negerhollands (or Virgin Islands Dutch Creole) is the extinct Dutchlexified creole of present-day US Virgin Islands. One of the typical features of Caribbean creoles is the occurrence of both, overtly marked and unmarked pasts. This has been attested in Negerhollands, where there is variation between preverbal (h)a and the bare verb. Studies in a number of creole languages have shown that such variation is not random. Following up on these results, I investigate the impact of factors such as narrative discours… Show more

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