Marlyse Baptista

List of John Benjamins publications for which Marlyse Baptista plays a role.

Book series

Contact Language Library (CoLL)

Edited by Felicity Meakins and Viveka Velupillai

ISSN 2542-7059

Edited by Miriam Meyerhoff and Umberto Ansaldo

ISSN 0920-9026

Journals

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages (JPCL)

Edited by Bettina Migge and Anthony P. Grant

ISSN 0920-9034 | E-ISSN 1569-9870

Titles

Noun Phrases in Creole Languages: A multi-faceted approach

Edited by Marlyse Baptista and Jacqueline Guéron

[Creole Language Library, 31] 2007. x, 494 pp.

Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

The Syntax of Cape Verdean Creole: The Sotavento varieties

Marlyse Baptista

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 54] 2002. xxii, 294 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)

Subjects Creole studies | Electronic/Multimedia Products | Generative linguistics | Syntax

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Baptista, Marlyse 2021 Reflections on Darwin’s natural selection: A lens on variation, competition and change Variation Rolls the Dice: A worldwide collage in honour of Salikoko S. Mufwene, Aboh, Enoch O. and Cécile B. Vigouroux (eds.), pp. 191–210 | Chapter

In this chapter, I adopt Mufwene's (2001, 2008) concepts of feature pool and feature selection and competition and compare it to Darwin's theory of natural selection (Darwin 1859). Such a comparison brings to light both the descriptive and explanatory adequacy of Mufwene’s theoretical framework,… read more

Baptista, Marlyse and Emanuel Correia de Pina 2018 Negation in Cape Verdean Creole: A parametric account Negation and Negative Concord: The view from Creoles, Déprez, Viviane and Fabiola Henri (eds.), pp. 173–190 | Chapter

This paper focuses on the behavior of Negation of the Cape Verdean Creole (CVC) variety spoken in Santiago (ST), using Longobardi’s (2014) theoretical framework. We examine simple negation, as well as the semantic and distributional properties of N-words. Following Longobardi’s framework, we offer… read more

Baptista, Marlyse 2017 Competition and selection in creole genesis: How ‘minimalist’ languages yield maximal output Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 32:1, pp. 138–158 | Review article

Baptista, Marlyse 2017 Competing I-grammars in creole genesis: A synchronic and diachronic view Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 32:2, pp. 398–415 | Column

Baptista, Marlyse 2016 Creole formation and L2 acquisition: On re-evaluating processes and labels Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 31:2, pp. 361–389 | Article

Baptista, Marlyse 2016 Stepping back to move forward: An introspection on the history of some key questions driving our field Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 31:1, pp. 184–199 | Article

Baptista, Marlyse 2015 Continuum and variation in Creoles: Out of many voices, one language Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 30:2, pp. 225–264 | Article

This paper focuses on the two most distinct varieties of Cape Verdean Creole spoken on the islands of Santiago and São Vicente. These two varieties are consistently viewed as being in opposition to each other on historical, linguistic, political and cultural grounds. This paper examines the… read more

Baptista, Marlyse 2013 Language turned on: What comparative studies and syntactic theory reveals on variation in creole languages Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 28:2, pp. 435–440 | Article

Baptista, Marlyse 2012 On Universal Grammar, the Bioprogram Hypothesis and Creole Genesis: An interview with Noam Chomsky Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 27:2, pp. 351–376 | Article

Baptista, Marlyse, Inês Brito and Saidu Bangura 2010 Cape Verdean in education: A linguistic and human right Creoles in Education: An appraisal of current programs and projects, Migge, Bettina, Isabelle Léglise and Angela Bartens (eds.), pp. 273–296 | Article

This paper illustrates how the Cape Verdean language evolved from being oral to gaining written representation, a necessary step before integrating the educational realm. We report three sociolinguistic surveys showing the gradual shift in attitudes by native speakers towards the Cape Verdean… read more

Baptista, Marlyse 2009 Economy, innovation and degrees of complexity in creole formation Complex Processes in New Languages, Aboh, Enoch O. and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 293–315 | Article

This paper explores the idea that in contact situations, there exists a process whereby so-called morpho-syntactic simplification is correlated to semantic complexification. In examining this process in the verbal and nominal domains, we show that a given morpheme may actually carry in Cape Verdean… read more

Baptista, Marlyse 2007 3. On the syntax and semantics of DP in Cape Verdean Creole Noun Phrases in Creole Languages: A multi-faceted approach, Baptista, Marlyse and Jacqueline Guéron (eds.), pp. 61–105 | Chapter

In this chapter, I provide an in-depth description of the semantics and structure of the Cape Verdean noun phrase involving both determined and determinerless nouns. It shows how overt determiners and their null counterparts interact and overlap in covering the same range of meanings. Bare nouns… read more

Baptista, Marlyse 2007 17. Properties of noun phrases in creole languages: A synthetic comparative exposition Noun Phrases in Creole Languages: A multi-faceted approach, Baptista, Marlyse and Jacqueline Guéron (eds.), pp. 461–470 | Chapter

Baptista, Marlyse and Jacqueline Guéron 2007 18. Functional deficiency, ellipsis or innovation in creole languages? A postface Noun Phrases in Creole Languages: A multi-faceted approach, Baptista, Marlyse and Jacqueline Guéron (eds.), pp. 471–483 | Chapter

In this Postface, one of our primary objectives as editors, is to weave together into a coherent whole the insights and analyses of our contributors. We aim to show how the chapters in the volume complement each other, highlighting both similarities and differences in the patterns of the nominal… read more

Baptista, Marlyse and Jacqueline Guéron 2007 1. Noun phrases in creole languages: An introductory overview Noun Phrases in Creole Languages: A multi-faceted approach, Baptista, Marlyse and Jacqueline Guéron (eds.), pp. 3–34 | Chapter