Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online

Philippe Maurer

Surveys

• Angolar
• Principense
• Batavia Creole
• Papiamentu

Structure datasets

• Angolar
• Principense
• Batavia Creole

Feature chapters

• Focusing of the noun phrase
• Verb doubling and focus
• Syllable onsets
• Syllable codas
• Tone
• Gender distinctions in personal pronouns
• Nominal plural marker and third-person-plural pronoun
• Generic noun phrases in subject function
• Pronominal and adnominal demonstratives
• Distance contrasts in demonstratives
• Adnominal distributive numerals
• Ordinal numerals
• Sortal numeral classifiers
• Gender agreement of adnominal adjectives
• Position of tense, aspect, and mood markers in relation to the verb
• Internal order of tense, aspect, and mood markers
• Tightness of the link between the past marker and the verb
• Tightness of the link between the progressive marker and the verb
• Uses of the progressive marker
• Uses of the habitual marker
• Tense-aspect systems
• Order of demonstrative and noun
• Negation and tense, aspect, and mood marking
• Present reference of stative verbs and past perfective reference of dynamic verbs
• Aspect change in verb chains
• Suppletion according to tense and aspect
• Ability verb and epistemic possibility
• The prohibitive
• Instrumental expressions
• Comitatives and instrumentals
• Noun phrase conjunction and comitative
• Directional serial verb constructions with 'come' and 'go'
• ‘Take’ serial verb constructions
• 'Give' serial verb constructions