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CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF PAPIAMENTO AND SPANISH VERBS, AND SOME THEORIES ON THE ORIGIN OF PAPIAMENTO (ANTILLES, CREOLE)

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1971
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The first chapter of this thesis examines the influences of Spanish and Portuguese on the development of Papiamento, and concludes that Papiamento is most likely of Afro-Portuguese origin. The influence of Spanish, however, has grown steadily and to such an extent that Papiamento, regardless of its origin, has definitely become a Spanish creole. A contrastive analysis of the internal constituents of Papiamento and Spanish verb phrases, constituting the principal objective of this thesis, is presented in chapter two. Points of conflict and agreement in the formation of verb constructions in the two languages are emphasized in the course of the contrastive analysis, and the salient points are summarized in charts. The last part of the the sis consists o f a thematic index of works on Papiamento and a linguistic bibliography.
Title: A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF PAPIAMENTO AND SPANISH VERBS, AND SOME THEORIES ON THE ORIGIN OF PAPIAMENTO (ANTILLES, CREOLE).
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Name(s): QUINN, ROBERT ANTHONY.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Resnick, Melvyn C., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1971
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 96 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: The first chapter of this thesis examines the influences of Spanish and Portuguese on the development of Papiamento, and concludes that Papiamento is most likely of Afro-Portuguese origin. The influence of Spanish, however, has grown steadily and to such an extent that Papiamento, regardless of its origin, has definitely become a Spanish creole. A contrastive analysis of the internal constituents of Papiamento and Spanish verb phrases, constituting the principal objective of this thesis, is presented in chapter two. Points of conflict and agreement in the formation of verb constructions in the two languages are emphasized in the course of the contrastive analysis, and the salient points are summarized in charts. The last part of the the sis consists o f a thematic index of works on Papiamento and a linguistic bibliography.
Identifier: 13463 (digitool), FADT13463 (IID), fau:10311 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1971.
Subject(s): Papiamentu language
Comparative linguistics
Spanish language--Verb
Creole dialects, Dutch--Netherlands Antilles
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