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- The Lingua Franca
- Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
- The Lingua Franca
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Tables
- Series Editor’s Foreword
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Author
- 3 The Dictionnaire
- 4 The Orthography
- 5 The Lexicon
- 6 The Word Formation
- 7 The Inflection
- 8 The Syntax
- 9 The Lingua Franca
- Book part
- References
- Index
7 - The Inflection
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 November 2021
- The Lingua Franca
- Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
- The Lingua Franca
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Tables
- Series Editor’s Foreword
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Author
- 3 The Dictionnaire
- 4 The Orthography
- 5 The Lexicon
- 6 The Word Formation
- 7 The Inflection
- 8 The Syntax
- 9 The Lingua Franca
- Book part
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter continues an examination of the structural features of the Dictionnaire’s LF by focusing on its inflectional categories and the means by which they are expressed. It begins with a brief survey of inflection in pidgins (Section 7.1) and the Romance lexifiers of LF (Section 7.2). The purpose of the survey is to map out the anticipated structural and typological limits for the inflectional categories of LF and their morphosyntactic expression. Section 7.3 looks at the inflection classes and inflectional categories of LF nominals and their exponence. Section 7.4 does the same for LF verbs. Section 7.5 looks at the expression of pronominal possessors and pronominal objects in the Dictionnaire’s LF. Whenever necessary, the Dictionnaire’s data is contrasted with Haedo’s (1612). Section 7.6 summarizes the conclusions.
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- The Lingua FrancaContact-Induced Language Change in the Mediterranean, pp. 206 - 246Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021