Towards a New Model of Genesis: Competing Processes in the Birth of Saramaccan Creole |
Contents
A CASE OF SIMPLIFICATION AND INTERNAL DEVELOPMENT | 4 |
A DEMONSTRATION OF TRANSFER | 22 |
A SUMMARY EVALUATION | 65 |
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acquisition African languages Akan Alleyne Atlantic creoles basilectal Bickerton Byrne calque Caribbean creoles chapter conception contact language context copula core creole genesis creole languages creolists creolization cross-linguistically decreolization demonstrate diachronic dialects documentation Dutch emerged encoding English-based creoles equative copula evidence example expressed Finish full language Go/come grammar Haitian hapa haole Hawaiian Creole English hẹn Igbo Keesing Kikongo Kofi Kwa languages Kwa/Nigerian languages spoken lexical items linguistic locative copula marker Muysken native languages originators Pacific Pidgin English phonological Pidgin and Creole pidgin stage plantations Portuguese Portuguese-based predicate prepositions pronoun reanalysis relexified result Rickford Russenorsk salience Saramaccan seen semantic serial verb constructions similar simplification Slave Coast SM SVCS speakers Sranan strategy structure substrate languages substratist suggests superstrate superstrate language Suriname syntactic syntax Tok Pisin transfer usage West African languages Westermann wósu Yoruba zero-copula