UID:
almafu_9958354279802883
Format:
1 online resource(x,532p.) :
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illustrations.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, 2015. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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ISBN:
9783110343977
Series Statement:
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]; 275
Content:
The relation between the Surinam Creoles and the languages of West Africa, where slaves who created the creoles originated, has been hotly debated. This book argues that the close relationship can be viewed in terms of a Trans Atlantic Sprachbund. It brings in new historical and linguistic evidence for an extremely close relationship between the creoles, the Gbe languages, and Kikongo, where bilingual practices led to new language forms.
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Frontmatter --
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Acknowledgements --
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Contents --
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Introduction: Creole Studies and Contact Linguistics /
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The early history of Surinam: Why is Surinam different? /
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Migrations, ethno-dynamics and geolinguistics in the Eastern Aja-Tado cultural Area /
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Ingredient X: The shared African lexical element in the Englishlexifier Atlantic Creoles, and the theory of rapid creolization /
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Relexification, and other language contact scenarios for explaining substrate effects /
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Trans-Atlantic patterns: the relexification of locative constructions in Sranan /
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Verb Semantics and Argument Structure in the Gbe and Sranan /
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Morphology, cross-linguistic effects, and Creole formation /
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Non-iconic reduplications in Eastern Gbe and Surinam /
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Substrate phonology, superstrate phonology and adstrate phonology in creole languages /
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The left periphery in the Surinamese creoles and Gbe: on the modularity of substrate transfer /
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Relexification and clause-embedding predicates /
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Conclusion: Feature distribution in the West Africa-Surinam Trans-Atlantic Sprachbund /
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Bibliography of work resulting from the Trans-Atlantic Sprachbund project /
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A preliminary list of probable Kikongo lexical items in the Surinam Creole languages /
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A preliminary list of probable Gbe lexical items in the Surinam Creole languages /
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References --
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Indices.
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Also available in print edition.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110343854
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110343984
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110343977
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110343977
