Surviving the Middle Passage: The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund

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Surviving the Middle Passage

The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund

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Volume 275 | Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

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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.

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Acknowledgements
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Introduction: Creole Studies and Contact Linguistics
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Margot van den Berg, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith

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Part 1. Setting the Scene
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The early history of Surinam: Why is Surinam different?
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Norval Smith

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Migrations, ethno-dynamics and geolinguistics in the Eastern Aja-Tado cultural Area
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Enoch Aboh and Norval Smith

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

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Relexification, and other language contact scenarios for explaining substrate effects
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Pieter Muysken

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Part II: Language structures: a sprachbund?
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Trans-Atlantic patterns: the relexification of locative constructions in Sranan
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Kofi Yakpo and Adrienne Bruyn

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Verb Semantics and Argument Structure in the Gbe and Sranan
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James Essegbey

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Morphology, cross-linguistic effects, and Creole formation
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Margot van den Berg

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Non-iconic reduplications in Eastern Gbe and Surinam
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Enoch Aboh and Norval Smith

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Substrate phonology, superstrate phonology and adstrate phonology in creole languages
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Norval Smith

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

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Relexification and clause-embedding predicates
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Tonjes Veenstra

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Part III. Wrapping up
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Conclusion: Feature distribution in the West Africa-Surinam Trans-Atlantic Sprachbund
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Pieter Muysken

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Bibliography of work resulting from the Trans-Atlantic Sprachbund project
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Norval Smith

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

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

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References
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Indices
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110343977

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Keywords for this book

Trans Atlantic Sprachbund; African Diaspora; Middle Passage

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Creolists, Sociolinguists, Typologists, African Language Specialists, African Diaspora and Slavery Historians

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Surviving the Middle Passage

Overview

About this book

Author / Editor information

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

Contents

Introduction: Creole Studies and Contact Linguistics

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 Englishlexifier Atlantic Creoles, and the theory of rapid creolization

Relexification, and other language contact scenarios for explaining substrate effects

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

Verb Semantics and Argument Structure in the Gbe and Sranan

Morphology, 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

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 languages

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

References

Indices

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