Surviving the Middle Passage : the West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund / edited by Pieter Muysken, Norval, Smith, with the assistance of Robert Borges.

• Acknowledgements; Introduction: Creole studies and Contact Linguistics; Part 1. Setting the Scene; 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 English- lexifier Atlantic Creoles, and the theory of rapid creolization; Relexification, and other language contact scenarios for explaining substrate effects; Part II. Language structures: a Sprachbund?; Trans-Atlantic patterns: the relexification of locative constructions in Sranan.
• Verb Semantics and Argument Structure in the Gbe and SrananMorphology, 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; Part III. Wrapping up; 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 languagesA preliminary list of probable Gbe lexical items in the Surinam Creole languages; References; Indices.

• The relation between the Surinam Creoles and the languages of West Africa, where slaves who created the creoles originated, has been hotly debated. This book argues that the close relationship can be viewed in terms of a Trans Atlantic Sprachbund. It brings in new historical and linguistic evidence for an extremely close relationship between the creoles, the Gbe languages, and Kikongo, where bilingual practices led to new language forms. 

Ämnesord

Languages in contact  -- Africa, West. (LCSH)

Languages in contact  -- Suriname. (LCSH)

Gbe languages  -- Grammar, Comparative -- Bantu. (LCSH)

Bantu languages  -- Grammar, Comparative -- Gbe. (LCSH)

Bantu languages  -- Grammar, Comparative -- Gbe.

Gbe languages  -- Grammar, Comparative -- Bantu.

Languages in contact  -- African, West.

Languages in contact  -- Suriname.

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Electronic books.  (LCSH)

Electronic books. 

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