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.)

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.

Table of Contents

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