ABSTRACT
Kriol bambai matches the function of the Dalabon apprehensive so well that speakers use it systematically use to translate the Dalabon apprehensive mood: the functions fulfilled by morphology in Dalabon are fulfilled by a free word in Kriol. Evaluative morphology displays relatively consistent linguistic and semantic properties cross-linguistically and with respect to emotions in particular, it typically encodes comparable ranges of expressive meanings across languages. Evaluative morphology is particularly interesting in the shift from Dalabon to Kriol, because it is available and overwhelmingly frequent in Dalabon, as expected in a polysynthetic language; but absent in Kriol, as expected in a relatively isolating language. Kriol reduplication applies primarily to adjectives and verbs; but also to some extent to nouns. The expressive functions of Kriol reduplication are attested with all word classes. Verbal reduplication is primarily aspectual with some expressive connotations, but with nominal reduplication expressive values are prevalent.
