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Chapitre D'ouvrage Année : 2020

Derivation and the morphological complexity of three French-based creoles

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Creolistic research persistently asserts the simplicity of creoles, citing as evidence the claimed poverty of creole morphology. Yet, creoles not only exhibit morphology, but evince a surprising degree of morphological complexity. Drawing on the evidence of derivational morphology from three different French-based creoles − Mauritian (Indian Ocean), Haitian, and Guadeloupean (Caribbean) – the current contribution provides new evidence for this claim. It pursues a view of morphological complexity where the interaction of a lexeme's inventory of forms with its participation in deverbal derivation contributes to the integrative complexity of a language's morphology. Such a perspective is compatible with psycholinguistic approaches to language acquisition and language change.

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Linguistique
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halshs-03550881 , version 1 (01-02-2022)

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Fabiola Henri, Gregory Stump, Delphine Tribout. Derivation and the morphological complexity of three French-based creoles. Peter Arkadiev; Francesco Gardani. The Complexities of Morphology, Oxford University Press, pp.105-135, 2020, ⟨10.1093/oso/9780198861287.003.0005⟩. ⟨halshs-03550881⟩
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