FREC47H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Louise Bennett-Coverley, Palenquero, Indo-European Languages
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Back to africa, by louise bennett (1919-2006) - jamaica. Svo word order - like most superstrate and substrate languages some evidence of influence of sov substrate languages in atlantic creoles and some. Indo-european languages, for example object pronouns which precede the verb ex. S yo te hablo palenquero cs i ta abl bo: (f je te parle, e i speak to you; i you speak) same construction found in some niger-congo languages. Most substrate have svo order, reflected in the majority of the creoles in english-based creoles there is no (do) support and no inversion of subject and the auxiliary verb. E he doesn"t wear shoes ce im no wier shuuz: ex. Hcf kote li ye? (e where he is?) Where there was colonization and trade coming together of people who spoke two or more languages no pidgins in europe and asia represents who were the colonizers and who was colonized.
