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

• Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015]; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (542 p.)
• Disciplina: 417/.2209883
• Soggetto topico: Languages in contact - African, West; Languages in contact - Suriname; Gbe languages - Grammar, Comparative - Bantu; Bantu languages - Grammar, Comparative - Gbe
• Soggetto geografico: African, West Languages
• Classificazione: EP 13150
• Persona (resp. second.): MuyskenPieter; SmithNorval; BorgesRobert
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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-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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Surviving the Middle Passage
• ISBN: 3-11-039499-5; 3-11-034397-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910345995403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Trends in linguistics. . -Studies and monographs ; ; 275.