Surviving the Middle Passage : : The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund / / ed. by Pieter C. Muysken, Norval Smith.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Aboh, Enoch,; Berg, Margot van den,; Borges, Robert,; Bruyn, Adrienne,; Essegbey, James,; Muysken, Pieter,; Smith, Norval,; Veenstra, Tonjes,; Yakpo, Kofi,
• HerausgeberIn: Muysken, Pieter C.,; Smith, Norval,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2014]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 275
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (532 p.)
• 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
• 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.

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.