Plural Marking Strategies in Tok Pisin and Jamaican Creole

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Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,0, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, course: Proseminar Linguistics, language: English, abstract: The following paper deals with the central question whether Tok Pisin and Jamaican Creole are inflected to indicate number or not. To begin with, the paper will first give a brief historical, linguistic and social background of both creoles. Then the paper focuses on the comparison between the two creole languages in terms of inflectional plural marking, analytic plural marking and bare nouns.

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