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(It-)clefts in Palenquero Creole and the specificational copula [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Palenquero Creole is a Caribbean Spanish-based creole spoken in San Basilio de Palenque (Colombia). It presents four overtly expressed copula forms: ta (lexically from Sp. estar) a locative copula; the forms é (or era) and sendá, which occur with both individual-level adjectival predicates and nominal predicates; and jue (lexically from Sp. < fue),
Mara Marsella, Laura Tramutoli
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Palenquero vs. Spanish negation: Separate but equal?

Lingua, 2018
The Afro-Colombian creole language Palenquero is characterized by predominantly clause-final negation, a typologically rare configuration. Contemporary Palenquero speakers—all of whom also speak Spanish—occasionally exhibit Spanish-like pre-verbal negation, raising the question of whether pre-verbal negation has always been a pragmatically available ...
John Lipski
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Accounting for the instability of Palenquero voiced stops [PDF]

open access: yesLingua, 2003
Abstract This paper presents an analysis of the patterns exhibited by Palenquero voiced stops, which reveals that there is a close connection between spirantization, prenasalization, flapping, and lateralization as they are articulatory maneuvers that a language may use to reduce the effort cost of implementing underlying voiced stops. Spirantization,
Pineros, Carlos
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Past, present, and future of Palenquero creole

2017
Abstract This article examines the current usage of the creole language of Palenque. To properly contextualize the topic in time and space, the study presents various aspects of Palenquero language and culture, linking them with the history and language use of other Afro-Colombian communities.
Y. Moñino
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On the (African) origins of Palenquero subject pronouns

Diachronica, 2002
Summary A principal aim of this paper is to show that (1) the Palenquero (Colombia) pronominal system in toto needs to be revised in the direction of greater Africanicity, and (2) speakers of Kikongo must have played a dominant role in the formation of Palenquero.
A. Schwegler
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Pitch polarity in Palenquero [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
In the Afro-Iberian creole language Palenquero, tonic syllables receive a level H tone, and lexical words have at most one H tone per word. According to previous studies, the final H tone of a phrase is usually either maintained as a level tone with no L% boundary tone, or is downstepped to a mid tone.
John M. Lipski
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