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Titolo |
Surviving the Middle Passage : the West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund / / edited by Pieter Muysken, Norval Smith ; with the assistance of Robert Borges |
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Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015] |
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©2015 |
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ISBN |
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3-11-039499-5 |
3-11-034397-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (542 p.) |
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Collana |
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Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, , 1861-4302 ; ; 275 |
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Classificazione |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Languages in contact - African, West |
Languages in contact - Suriname |
Gbe languages - Grammar, Comparative - Bantu |
Bantu languages - Grammar, Comparative - Gbe |
African, West Languages |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- 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 English lexifier 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- |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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