Darlene LaCharité
List of John Benjamins publications for which Darlene LaCharité plays a role.
2015 Arbitrariness and iconicity in total reduplication: Evidence from Caribbean Creoles The Why and How of Total Reduplication: Current Issues and New Perspectives, Rossi, Daniela (ed.), pp. 971–991 | Article
This article explores the iconicity of Total Reduplication (TR) and considers how iconicity is manifested in the reduplication of object, event, and attribute-denoting forms in Caribbean Creole (CC) languages. We argue that TR naturally lends itself to a “more of the same content” interpretation,… read more
2013 The typology of Caribbean Creole reduplication Creole Languages and Linguistic Typology, Bhatt, Parth and Tonjes Veenstra (eds.), pp. 245–268 | Article
Although many aspects of Creole languages remain relatively unexplored, the morphology of Creole languages has been especially neglected. This is largely because it is still widely believed that Creoles have very little in the way of morphology, even compared to an inflection-poor language such as… read more
2011 The typology of Caribbean Creole reduplication Creoles and Typology, Bhatt, Parth and Tonjes Veenstra (eds.), pp. 194–218 | Article
Although many aspects of Creole languages remain relatively unexplored, the morphology of Creole languages has been especially neglected. This is largely because it is still widely believed that Creoles have very little in the way of morphology, even compared to an inflection-poor language such as… read more
2007 Multilingualism in creole genesis Substrate Influence in Creole Formation, Migge, Bettina and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 159–164 | Article
1999 Passive in Jamaican Creole: Phonetically Empty But Syntactically Active Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 14:2, pp. 259–283 | Article
Because Jamaican Creole lacks the familiar morphological indicators of the passive that characterize English, its lexifier language, it has sometimes been assumed that Jamaican either lacks a passive, or that its passive is fundamentally different from that of English. However, a Government and… read more