Verb Semantics and Argument Structure in the Gbe and Sranan

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents IX
4. Introduction: Creole Studies and Contact Linguistics 1
5. Part 1. Setting the Scene
6. The early history of Surinam: Why is Surinam different? 17
7. Migrations, ethno-dynamics and geolinguistics in the Eastern Aja-Tado cultural Area 43
8. Ingredient X: The shared African lexical element in the Englishlexifier Atlantic Creoles, and the theory of rapid creolization 67
9. Relexification, and other language contact scenarios for explaining substrate effects 107
10. Part II: Language structures: a sprachbund?
11. Trans-Atlantic patterns: the relexification of locative constructions in Sranan 135
12. Verb Semantics and Argument Structure in the Gbe and Sranan 175
13. Morphology, cross-linguistic effects, and Creole formation 207
14. Non-iconic reduplications in Eastern Gbe and Surinam 241
15. Substrate phonology, superstrate phonology and adstrate phonology in creole languages 261
16. The left periphery in the Surinamese creoles and Gbe: on the modularity of substrate transfer 323
17. Relexification and clause-embedding predicates 369
18. Part III. Wrapping up
19. Conclusion: Feature distribution in the West Africa-Surinam Trans-Atlantic Sprachbund 393
20. Bibliography of work resulting from the Trans-Atlantic Sprachbund project 409
21. A preliminary list of probable Kikongo lexical items in the Surinam Creole languages 417
22. A preliminary list of probable Gbe lexical items in the Surinam Creole languages 463
23. References 477
24. Indices 515