Surviving the Middle Passage : : The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund / / ed. by Pieter C. Muysken, Norval Smith.
This book is about the close historical and linguistic relationship between the languages of Surinam and Benin, a relationship which can be viewed in terms of a Trans Atlantic Sprachbund or linguistic area. It consists of a detailed analysis of various possible substrate and adstrate effects in a nu...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2014] ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (532 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction: Creole Studies and Contact Linguistics -- Part 1. Setting the Scene -- The early history of Surinam: Why is Surinam different? -- Migrations, ethno-dynamics and geolinguistics in the Eastern Aja-Tado cultural Area -- Ingredient X: The shared African lexical element in the Englishlexifier Atlantic Creoles, and the theory of rapid creolization -- Relexification, and other language contact scenarios for explaining substrate effects -- Part II: Language structures: a sprachbund? -- Trans-Atlantic patterns: the relexification of locative constructions in Sranan -- Verb Semantics and Argument Structure in the Gbe and Sranan -- Morphology, cross-linguistic effects, and Creole formation -- Non-iconic reduplications in Eastern Gbe and Surinam -- Substrate phonology, superstrate phonology and adstrate phonology in creole languages -- The left periphery in the Surinamese creoles and Gbe: on the modularity of substrate transfer -- Relexification and clause-embedding predicates -- Part III. Wrapping up -- Conclusion: Feature distribution in the West Africa-Surinam Trans-Atlantic Sprachbund -- Bibliography of work resulting from the Trans-Atlantic Sprachbund project -- A preliminary list of probable Kikongo lexical items in the Surinam Creole languages -- A preliminary list of probable Gbe lexical items in the Surinam Creole languages -- References -- Indices |
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Summary: | This book is about the close historical and linguistic relationship between the languages of Surinam and Benin, a relationship which can be viewed in terms of a Trans Atlantic Sprachbund or linguistic area. It consists of a detailed analysis of various possible substrate and adstrate effects in a number of components of the grammar, in the Surinam Creole languages, primarily from the Gbe languages of Benin but also from Kikongo. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9783110343977 9783110762518 9783110700985 9783110742961 9783110369526 9783110370270 |
ISSN: | 1861-4302 ; |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783110343977 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | ed. by Pieter C. Muysken, Norval Smith. |