Surviving the Middle Passage : : The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund /

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

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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
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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (532 p.)
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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

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