A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF PAPIAMENTO AND SPANISH VERBS, AND SOME THEORIES ON THE ORIGIN OF PAPIAMENTO (ANTILLES, CREOLE)

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters ; Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1971. ; The first chapter of this thesis examines the influences of Spanish and Portuguese on the development of Papiamento, and concludes that Papiamento is most likely of Afro-Portuguese origin. The influence of Spanish, however, has grown steadily and to such an extent that Papiamento, regardless of its origin, has definitely become a Spanish creole. A contrastive analysis of the internal constituents of Papiamento and Spanish verb phrases, constituting the principal objective of this thesis, is pre... Mehr ...