14.2258, Books: Historical/Socioling, Gbe: Migge

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Subject: 14.2258, Books: Historical/Socioling, Gbe: Migge

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Date:  Tue, 26 Aug 2003 16:07:32 +0000
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  Creole Formation as Language Contact: Migge

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Date:  Tue, 26 Aug 2003 16:07:32 +0000
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  Creole Formation as Language Contact: Migge

Title: Creole Formation as Language Contact
Subtitle: The case of the Suriname Creoles
Series Title: Creole Language Library 25

Publication Year: 2003
Publisher: John Benjamins
           http://www.benjamins.com/, http://www.benjamins.nl		

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=CLL_25

Author: Bettina  Migge, University of Frankfurt am Main

Hardback: ISBN: 9027252475, Pages: xii, 151 pp., Price: EUR 85.00
Hardback: ISBN: 1588113973, Pages: xii, 151 pp., Price: USD 85.00

Abstract:

The research on the formation of (radical) creoles has seen an
unprecedented intensification and diversification in the last 20
years. This book discusses, illustrates, and evaluates current
research on creole formation based on an in-depth investigation of the
processes and mechanisms that contributed to the emergence of the
morphosyntactic system of the creoles of Suriname. The study draws on
a rich corpus of a) natural conversational and elicited synchronic
linguistic data from the Eastern Maroon Creole (EMC) and its main
African substrate language, Gbe, b) published diachronic data from the
EMC's sister-language Sranan Tongo, and c) information on the early
history of Suriname coming from socio-historical investigations. It
suggests that mechanisms of deliberate and contact-induced change also
involved in borrowing and particularly shift situations led to the
initial formation of the creoles of Suriname while language-internal
change played a role in their subsequent development.

Table of contents

Acknowledgements  ix
List of Abbreviations  xi
1. Introduction  1-8
2. Current research on creole formation  9-26
3. The context of creole formation in Suriname  27-35
4. The European input  37-52
5. The African input: lexical retention  53-78
6. The African input: structural retention  79-106
7. Language-internal change  107-120
8. Conclusion and implications  121-129
Notes  130-134
References  135-145
Index of subjects  147
Index of names  148-149

Lingfield(s):   Historical Linguistics
		Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s):  Gbe (Language Code: EWE)
		      Sranan Tongo (Language Code: SRN)

Written In:  English (Language Code: ENG)

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