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Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 13:05:06
From: Marsha Forbes-Barnett [marshaforbes at gmail.com]
Subject: An Analysis of dual Aspectual Forms in Caribbean English Creoles: An event structure approach

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Institution: University of the West Indies 
Program: PhD- Linguistics 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2012 

Author: Marsha Simone Forbes-Barnett

Dissertation Title: An Analysis of dual Aspectual Forms in Caribbean English
Creoles: An event structure approach 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics


Dissertation Director(s):
Cristina Schmitt
Silvia Kouwenberg

Dissertation Abstract:

In this dissertation I show that the existence of ‘dual aspectual’ forms in 
Caribbean English Creoles (CECs) does not refute the Stative/Non-
stative distinction.   Bickerton (1975) observed this distinction as 
“crucial” in Creole languages and it has been useful in accounting for 
the observation of a default Tense interpretation of the unmarked verb 
in CEC among other phenomena. However,  the case of  property 
items such as  sik ‘sick’ weeri ‘tired’ redi ‘ready’ etc which appear  in 
both Stative and Non-stative use has raised a conceptual question for 
the application of this distinction and whether it may  unambiguously be 
applied to verbs.

In this work, which assumes a compositional approach to Aspect, I 
focus on the contribution of the verb.  In addressing the challenge 
posed by dual aspectual forms in CECs, I provide theoretical grounding 
for the Stative/Non-stative distinction.  From the perspective of primitive 
Event structures and Pustejovsky’s (1988), (1991) observation of a 
verb’s association with an Event Structure of State, Transition or 
Process, I propose for CEC property items a classification based on a 
combination of syntactic and semantic criteria.  The analysis I propose 
effectively allows for a classification of property items which includes 
three main groups:  Those items which are inherently Non-stative 
(Transition), those that are inherently Stative (State) and do not appear 
in Non-stative use and those that are inherently Stative but allow for 
morphological derivation to express the Event Structure of either 
Transition or Process.  This captures the diversity in aspectual and 
categorial status that has been indicated for these items but allows for 
their association with a unique aspectual and categorial status.







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