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Language and Slavery
A social and linguistic history of the Suriname creoles
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English
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2017
About this book
This posthumous work by Jacques Arends offers new insights into the emergence of the creole languages of Suriname including Sranantongo or Suriname Plantation Creole, Ndyuka, and Saramaccan, and the sociohistorical context in which they developed. Drawing on a wealth of sources including little known historical texts, the author points out the relevance of European settlements prior to colonization by the English in 1651 and concludes that the formation of the Surinamese creoles goes back further than generally assumed. He provides an all-encompassing sociolinguistic overview of the colony up to the mid-19th century and shows how ethnicity, language attitude, religion and location had an effect on which languages were spoken by whom. The author discusses creole data gleaned from the earliest sources and interprets the attested variation. The book is completed by annotated textual data, both oral and written and representing different genres and stages of the Surinamese creoles. It will be of interest to linguists, historians, anthropologists, literary scholars and anyone interested in Suriname.
Reviews
Bettina Migge, in Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 34:1: pp. 167-170 (2019):
The book is a must read for students and scholars interested in Suriname Creoles, and a model of exemplary scholarship on creole genesis.
The book is a must read for students and scholars interested in Suriname Creoles, and a model of exemplary scholarship on creole genesis.
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Prelim pages
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Table of contents
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Introduction to this edition
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Series editor’s preface
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Trotji (Sranan: Preface )
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Outline of the book
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Chapter 1. Introduction
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Chapter 2. The ‘prehistory’ of the Suriname creoles
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Chapter 3. Social and demographic factors in creole formation
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Chapter 4. Meta-linguistic evidence
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Chapter 5. Early developments (1667–c1800)
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Chapter 6. Oral texts
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Chapter 7. Written texts
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References
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Index
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
July 13, 2017
eBook ISBN:
9789027265807
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
463
This book is in the series
eBook ISBN:
9789027265807
Keywords for this book
Sociolinguistics and Dialectology; Contact Linguistics; Creole studies; Historical linguistics
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
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BY-NC-ND 4.0
