Surviving the Middle Passage: The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund

ISBN-13: 9783110343854 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 542 str.

Pieter Muysken; Norval Smith

Opis

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.

O autorze

Pieter Muysken, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Norval Smith, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.