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Evidence of topic-prominence in Mauritian Creole

Abstract This chapter aims to shed light on the function of the morphemes li, sa and se, that licence Topic-prominence in Mauritian Creole. The prevalence of Topic-Comment sentence structure, subjectless sentences, and a limited use of passives in the Creole
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Decreolization in Mauritian Creole : sociolinguistic and linguistic evidence

1981
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The predicate marker li in Mauritian Creole

2007
There is a morpheme 'li' in Mauritian Creole (MC), which is homophonous with the 3sg pronoun, and which, in the early creole, occurs frequently between the subject and the predicate in affirmative, present tense clauses. I propose that that 'li' may have originated as a resumptive pronoun, co-referential with the subject, but following the ...
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Indo-Aryan influence in Mauritian Creole

Abstract This paper looks at possible Indo-Aryan influence on the grammar of Mauritian Creole. Although several Indo-Aryan languages have been in close contact with Mauritian Creole for almost two hundred years, they appear to have had only minimal impact on its
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The long and short of verb alternations in Mauritian Creole and Bantu languages

Folia Linguistica, 2015
Tonjes Veenstra, Jenneke Van Der Wal
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