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Surviving the Middle Passage

The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund

Ed. by Muysken, Pieter C. / Smith, Norval

In collab. with Borges, Robert

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

DE GRUYTER MOUTON

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Frontmatter

Pages I-IV

Acknowledgements

Pages V-VIII

Contents

Pages IX-X

Introduction: Creole Studies and Contact Linguistics

Berg, Margot van den / Muysken, Pieter / Smith, Norval

Pages 1-14

Part 1. Setting the Scene

The early history of Surinam: Why is Surinam different?

Smith, Norval

Pages 17-42

Migrations, ethno-dynamics and geolinguistics in the Eastern Aja-Tado cultural Area

Aboh, Enoch / Smith, Norval

Pages 43-66

Ingredient X: The shared African lexical element in the Englishlexifier Atlantic Creoles, and the theory of rapid creolization

Smith, Norval

Pages 67-106

Relexification, and other language contact scenarios for explaining substrate effects

Muysken, Pieter

Pages 107-132

Part II: Language structures: a sprachbund?

Trans-Atlantic patterns: the relexification of locative constructions in Sranan

Yakpo, Kofi / Bruyn, Adrienne

Pages 135-174

Verb Semantics and Argument Structure in the Gbe and Sranan

Essegbey, James

Pages 175-206

Morphology, cross-linguistic effects, and Creole formation

Berg, Margot van den

Pages 207-240

Non-iconic reduplications in Eastern Gbe and Surinam

Aboh, Enoch / Smith, Norval

Pages 241-260

Substrate phonology, superstrate phonology and adstrate phonology in creole languages

Smith, Norval

Pages 261-322

The left periphery in the Surinamese creoles and Gbe: on the modularity of substrate transfer

Aboh, Enoch

Pages 323-368

Relexification and clause-embedding predicates

Veenstra, Tonjes

Pages 369-390

Part III. Wrapping up

Conclusion: Feature distribution in the West Africa-Surinam Trans-Atlantic Sprachbund

Muysken, Pieter

Pages 393-408

Bibliography of work resulting from the Trans-Atlantic Sprachbund project

Smith, Norval

Pages 409-416

A preliminary list of probable Kikongo lexical items in the Surinam Creole languages

Smith, Norval

Pages 417-462

A preliminary list of probable Gbe lexical items in the Surinam Creole languages

Smith, Norval

Pages 463-476

References

Pages 477-514

Indices

Pages 515-532

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