Grammatical relations in a radical Creole : verb complementation in Saramaccan /
With English and Portuguese as parent languages; the significant lexical retention of African languages; and the relative isolation of its speakers, Saramaccan has always stood out among Creole languages. Yet despite its obvious interest Saramaccan received little in the way of scholarly study. This...
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins,
1987
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| Series: | Creole language library ;
v. 3. |
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Table of Contents:
- GRAMMATICAL RELATIONS IN A RADICAL CREOLE; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; PREFACE; Table of contents; FOREWORD; CHAPTER I: THE ISSUES, THE MODEL AND THE DATA; 1.1 Saramaccan as a Creole; 1.2 Government and Binding Theory; 1.3 The Data; NOTES; CHAPTER II: SURINAME, THE SARAMAKA AND SARAMACCAN; 2.1 The Demographics of Pidginization and Creolization; 2.2 Suriname and Saramaccan; 2.2.1 Suriname; 2.2.2 Provenience of Slaves; 2.2.3 Demographics of Suriname's Slaves; 2.3 The Saramaka and Saramaccan; NOTES; CHAPTER III: ASPECTS OF THE SYNTAX OF SARAMACCAN; 3 .1 Wh-Phenomena.
