Surviving the Middle Passage

Surviving the Middle Passage

The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund

In: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM], 275

In collaboration with: Robert Borges
Edited by: Pieter C. Muysken and Norval Smith

De Gruyter Mouton | 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110343977

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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 number of components of the grammar, in the Surinam Creole languages, primarily from the Gbe languages of Benin but also from Kikongo.

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Pieter Muysken, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Norval Smith, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Frontmatter Free access PDF PDF	I
Acknowledgements Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	V
Contents Free access PDF PDF	IX
Introduction: Creole Studies and Contact Linguistics Margot van den Berg, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	1
Part 1. Setting the Scene
The early history of Surinam: Why is Surinam different? Norval Smith Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	17
Migrations, ethno-dynamics and geolinguistics in the Eastern Aja-Tado cultural Area Enoch Aboh and Norval Smith Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	43
Ingredient X: The shared African lexical element in the Englishlexifier Atlantic Creoles, and the theory of rapid creolization Norval Smith Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	67
Relexification, and other language contact scenarios for explaining substrate effects Pieter Muysken Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	107
Part II: Language structures: a sprachbund?
Trans-Atlantic patterns: the relexification of locative constructions in Sranan Kofi Yakpo and Adrienne Bruyn Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	135
Verb Semantics and Argument Structure in the Gbe and Sranan James Essegbey Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	175
Morphology, cross-linguistic effects, and Creole formation Margot van den Berg Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	207
Non-iconic reduplications in Eastern Gbe and Surinam Enoch Aboh and Norval Smith Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	241
Substrate phonology, superstrate phonology and adstrate phonology in creole languages Norval Smith Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	261
The left periphery in the Surinamese creoles and Gbe: on the modularity of substrate transfer Enoch Aboh Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	323
Relexification and clause-embedding predicates Tonjes Veenstra Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	369
Part III. Wrapping up
Conclusion: Feature distribution in the West Africa-Surinam Trans-Atlantic Sprachbund Pieter Muysken Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	393
Bibliography of work resulting from the Trans-Atlantic Sprachbund project Norval Smith Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	409
A preliminary list of probable Kikongo lexical items in the Surinam Creole languages Norval Smith Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	417
A preliminary list of probable Gbe lexical items in the Surinam Creole languages Norval Smith Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	463
References Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	477
Indices Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	515

Surviving the Middle Passage

The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund

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