Surviving the Middle Passage

Surviving the Middle Passage PDF Author: Pieter C. Muysken
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110343975
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 542

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Book Description
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.