Stanwood, Ryo E. (1997). The primitive syntax of mental predicates in Hawaii Creole English: A text-based study. Language Sciences, 19(3), 209-217. DOI: 10.1016/S0388-0001(96)00060-5
This study presents evidence collected from basilectal texts that the NSM mental predicates (THINK, KNOW, WANT, FEEL, SAY, SEE, and HEAR) have clear lexical exponents in Hawaii Creole English and that these HCE predicates occur, with minor qualification, in the syntactic configurations predicted as universal within the NSM approach.
