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Surviving the Middle Passage
Surviving the Middle Passage

Chapters in this book (21)

Frontmatter
Acknowledgements
Contents
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 Englishlexifier 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 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
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 languages
A preliminary list of probable Gbe lexical items in the Surinam Creole languages
References
Indices
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