The Habitual Category in Guyanese and Jamaican Creoles
American Speech1988Vol. 63(3), pp. 195–195
Citations Over Time
Abstract
IN Dynamics of a Creole System (1975), Bickerton proposes an aspectual opposition of [+ Punctual] for the Guyanese basilect. Subsequently, in Roots of Language (1981; see also Bickerton 1984), he proposes that the system is universal and incorporates it into his language bioprogram hypothesis. His analysis of the aspectual system holds that one morpheme is used to convey both habitual and progressive meanings. In this paper I will illustrate that Bickerton's system is inadequate for the Guyanese basilect since there is evidence to show that habitual and progressive meanings are conveyed by separate morphemes; and since he claims that the system is universal, I will examine how adequate it is for the Jamaican basilect.
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