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Surviving the Middle Passage

The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund

Norval Smith editor Pieter C Muysken editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:De Gruyter

Published:27th Nov '14

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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.

ISBN: 9783110343854

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 899g

542 pages