Surviving the Middle Passage: The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund

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Surviving the Middle Passage

The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund

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

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2015

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

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eBook published on:

December 12, 2014

eBook ISBN:

9783110343977

Hardcover published on:

November 27, 2014

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110343854

Paperback published on:

June 26, 2017

Paperback ISBN:

9783110555424

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10

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532

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110343977

eBook ISBN: 9783110343977

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110343854

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Keywords for this book

Trans Atlantic Sprachbund; African Diaspora; Middle Passage

Audience(s) for this book

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

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