Language and Slavery: A social and linguistic history of the Suriname creoles
Jacques Arends
[Creole Language Library, 52] 2017. xxix, 463 pp.
Adrienne Bruyn
List of John Benjamins publications for which Adrienne Bruyn plays a role.
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Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
2020 Moving into and out of Sranan: Multiple effects of contact Advances in Contact Linguistics: In honour of Pieter Muysken, Smith, Norval, Tonjes Veenstra and Enoch O. Aboh (eds.), pp. 37–60 | Chapter
In Sranan, a creole language of Suriname, motion in and out of locations is expressed differently from English, its primary lexifier language. Talmy (2000), among others, has shown that the expression of motion in English involves a verb that indicates the Manner of movement, e.g., walk, and,… read more
2011 A Tribute to Norval Smith Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 26:2, pp. 235–246 | Article
2011 Grammaticalization in creoles: Ordinary and not-so-ordinary cases Language Change in Contact Languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations, Clements, J. Clancy and Shelome Gooden (eds.), pp. 53–78 | Article
Cases from Sranan are presented in order to illustrate the various processes and mechanisms involved in developments in a creole language that could be interpreted as grammaticalization. While we do find “ordinary” grammaticalization, substrate patterns sometimes provided a model. In the extreme… read more
2009 Grammaticalization in creoles: Ordinary and not-so-ordinary cases Language Change in Contact Languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations, Clements, J. Clancy and Shelome Gooden (eds.), pp. 312–337 | Article
Cases from Sranan are presented in order to illustrate the various processes and mechanisms involved in developments in a creole language that could be interpreted as grammaticalization. While we do find “ordinary” grammaticalization, substrate patterns sometimes provided a model. In the extreme… read more
2008 The Early Surinamese Creoles in the Suriname Creole Archive (SUCA) Linguistics in the Netherlands 2008, Koppen, Marjo van and Bert Botma (eds.), pp. 25–36 | Article
2007 Remembrance for Jacques Arends 1952–2005 Substrate Influence in Creole Formation, Migge, Bettina and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 149–158 | Article
2007 12. Bare nouns and articles in Sranan Noun Phrases in Creole Languages: A multi-faceted approach, Baptista, Marlyse and Jacqueline Guéron (eds.), pp. 339–381 | Chapter
The paper investigates the distribution of determiners in Sranan, which differs both from that in the lexifier, English, and the Gbe substrate. From an early stage onwards, the article wan functions as a marker of indefinite singularity with nonspecific as well as specific indefinites; it may,… read more
1998 What can This Be? A west African Contribution to Sranan Historical Linguistics 1997: Selected papers from the 13th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Düsseldorf, 10–17 August 1997, Schmid, Monika S., Jennifer R. Austin and Dieter Stein (eds.), pp. 25–40 | Article
1996 Relative Clauses in Early Sranan The Early Stages of Creolization, Arends, Jacques (ed.), pp. 149–202 | Article
1994 10.Gradualist and developmental hypotheses Pidgins and Creoles: An introduction, Arends, Jacques, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 111–120 | Chapter
1994 21. Noun phrases Pidgins and Creoles: An introduction, Arends, Jacques, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 259–269 | Chapter
1993 Question words in 18th-century and 20th-century Sranan Historical Linguistics 1991: Papers from the 10th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam, August 12–16, 1991, Marle, Jaap van (ed.), pp. 31–48 | Article
1993 The Creolization of Dutch Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 8:1, pp. 29–80 | Article
The aim of this article is a systematic investigation of certain grammatical aspects of three languages that came about as by-products of colonial expansion of the Dutch during the seventeenth century: Afrikaans, Negerhollands, and Berbice Dutch. The discussion is centered on three grammatical… read more