2023/12/15 by Kevin B. Reynolds · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Historical Studies in Central America #Linguistic Variation and Morphology #Migration, Identity, and Health
paper · doi:10.16995/jpl.11247
openalex publication_date 2023/12/15 · openalex created_date 2023/12/16 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
The volume under review is a formal descriptive grammar of Papiamentu, the Iberian-lexified creole language spoken by the majority of inhabitants of the ABC islands of the Caribbean (Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao). The grammar reviews previous work on the morphology, syntax, phonology, and semantics of Papiamentu and analyzes and discusses published and new data with the scope of confirming or challenging previously published findings. The work particularly focuses on typological features of Papiamentu and of the purported creole type in general, and positions these features as unexceptional within the panorama of world languages.