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Surviving the Middle Passage : the West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund (2015)

Muysken, Pieter, [editor.] ; Smith, Norval, [editor.] ; Borges, Robert, [contributor.]

Berlin ; : De Gruyter Mouton,

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edoccha_9959145766702883

Format: 1 online resource (542 p.)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 3-11-039499-5 , 3-11-034397-5

Series Statement: Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, 275

Content: 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.

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Front matter -- , Acknowledgements -- , Contents -- , Introduction: Creole Studies and Contact Linguistics -- , 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 English lexifier Atlantic Creoles, and the theory of rapid creolization -- , Relexification, and other language contact scenarios for explaining substrate effects -- , 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 -- , 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 , Issued also in print. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 3-11-055542-5

Additional Edition: ISBN 3-11-034385-1

Language: English

Subjects: Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures

RVK:

EP 13150

DOI: 10.1515/9783110343977