Surviving the Middle Passage : The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund

Name: Surviving the Middle Passage
Brand: De Gruyter
SKU: 9783110343854
Price: 29600 KES
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ISBN: 9783110343854

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Format Hardback

Book Series Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

ISBN-10 3110343851

ISBN-13 9783110343854

Publisher De Gruyter

Imprint De Gruyter Mouton

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Nov 27th, 2014

Print length 542 Pages

Weight 899 grams

Product Classification: Linguistics

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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.

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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