Surviving the Middle Passage
The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund| By: | Muysken, Pieter;Smith, Norval; |
| Publisher: | De Gruyter |
| Print ISBN: | 9783110343854 |
| eText ISBN: | 9783110394993 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2015 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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.