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A Metagrammatical Approach to Periphrasis in Gwadloupéyen

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natural language processing

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paper
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Sch
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Lab
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CCSDFir
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International audience In this paper, I show that verbal and nominal functional elements of Gwadloupéyen can be described in the Tree-Adjoining Grammar as pertaining to morphological periphrasis. This challenges the claim that Creoles have fully analytical morphology.