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

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Muysken, Pieter (Editor ), Smith, Norval (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2015]
Colección:Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 275.
Temas:
Languages in contact > Africa, West.
Languages in contact > Suriname.
Gbe languages > Grammar, Comparative > Bantu.
Bantu languages > Grammar, Comparative > Gbe.
Langues en contact > Afrique occidentale.
Langues en contact > Suriname.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > General.
Languages in contact
Sranangtongo
Djuka-Sprache
Paramakkisch
Saramakkisch
Sprachbund
Ewe-Sprache
Kongo-Sprache
West Africa
Suriname
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements; 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 English- lexifier 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 SrananMorphology, 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 languagesA preliminary list of probable Gbe lexical items in the Surinam Creole languages; References; Indices.

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