UID:
edoccha_9959145766702883
Format:
1 online resource (542 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
3-11-039499-5
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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.
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Front matter --
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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 English lexifier 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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Issued also in print.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-11-055542-5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-11-034385-1
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
DOI:
10.1515/9783110343977