Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online

Susanne Maria Michaelis

Surveys

• Seychelles Creole

Structure datasets

• Seychelles Creole

Feature chapters

• Negative morpheme types
• Focus particle ‘also’
• Vocative markers
• Inclusive/exclusive distinction in independent personal pronouns
• The associative plural
• Antidual of paired body-part terms
• Comparative adjective marking
• Comparative standard marking
• Aspect markers and inchoative meaning
• Order of cardinal numeral and noun
• Ditransitive constructions with ‘give’
• Expletive subject in ‘seem’ constructions
• Raining constructions
• Experiencer constructions with ‘headache’
• Experiencer constructions with ‘like’
• Experiencer constructions with ‘fear’
• Order of relative clause and noun
• Predicative noun phrases
• Predicative adjectives
• Predicative locative phrases
• Predicative noun phrases and predicative locative phrases
• Predicative possession
• Existential verb and transitive possession verb
• Going to named places
• Coming from named places
• Motion-to and motion-from
• Transitive motion verbs: ‘push’
• Transitive motion verbs: ‘pull’
• Directional serial verb constructions with 'come' and 'go'
• Applicative constructions
• Subject relative clauses
• Object relative clauses
• Instrument relative clauses
• Complementizer with verbs of speaking
• Complementizer with verbs of knowing
• ‘Want’ complement subjects
• Complements of 'think' and 'want'
• Verb doubling in temporal clauses