The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York
HUU-FA THESIS DAT?: A Syntactic Analysis of Possessive Jamaican Creole Possessive WH-elements
Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>This thesis discusses the differences between the Jamaican Creole expressions huu-fa and fi-huu. Jamaican Creole is a language that was born from a combination of the lexifier language English and the substrate language Twi, therefore it is reasonable to check whether the features of JC were derived from these languages. The distribution of huu-fa and fi-huu resembles the distribution of English whose. Fi-huu and huu-fa are WH-elements that show possession, similar to the English word whose. They are made of a WH-pronoun and a form of the preposition fi "for". Both terms differ in internal structure, and distribution. The difference between huu-fa and fi-huu will be dissected in terms of substrate and superstrate influences as well as the elements involved in their formation. Ultimately, this thesis states that the internal structure of the PP huu-fa prevents it from appearing adnominally. </p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Arts
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Master
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Linguistics
- Grantor
- The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York
- Year dc:date.available
- 2014
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Foster, Toni Ashlie
- Advisor dc:contributor.advisor
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- Marcel den Dikken
Subjects
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dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/209
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:academicworks.cuny.edu:gc_etds-1208