9 They Might as Well Be Speaking Chinese: The Changing Chinese Linguistic Situation in Suriname under New Migration

Fat, Paul B. Tjon Sie

doi:10.1163/9789004280120_010

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Assessing the sociolinguistic situation of the Maroon creoles

Migge

Léglise²

2015

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Recent anthropological and socio-historical research on Maroon populations suggests that Maroon communities have undergone significant social change since the 1960s spurred by processes of urbanization. However, to date very little is known about how these social changes are impacting on the Maroon Creoles as there is very little sociolinguistic research being carried out in the region. The aim of this paper is to examine the sociolinguistic context of the Maroon Creoles in the light of data from two recent sociolinguistic surveys carried out in Suriname and French Guiana. The findings demonstrate that the sociolinguistic status of Maroon languages has undergone various changes. Several of them are now well represented in French Guiana and, as additional languages, are gaining speakers both in Suriname and French Guiana. While their speakers increasingly practice them together with other languages, thus displaying their multilingual repertoire, there is little indication that their survival is threatened because their speakers predominantly hold positive attitudes towards them.

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Assessing the sociolinguistic situation of the Maroon creoles

Migge

Léglise²

2015

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Language variation in parliamentary speech in Suriname

Borges,

van den Berg

2023

Studies in Corpus Linguistics

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Surinamese Dutch is widely considered to be distinct from Netherlandic Dutch varieties, but grammatical differences remain understudied. The primary aim of this chapter is to explore some of the claims made in the literature about how the grammar of Surinamese Dutch differs from Netherlandic Dutch, using spoken data from the Surinamese parliament. We also introduce an exploratory method that uses automatic speech-to-text software to efficiently construct a corpus of spoken-language data, avoiding some of the pitfalls associated with working with spoken language data. We explore constructions involving the particle er ‘there’, word order, and non-standard imperfective constructions in the Surinamese Dutch data. Our analyses illustrate that pinpointing characteristic differences between Surinamese and Netherlandic Dutch is extremely nuanced.

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9 They Might as Well Be Speaking Chinese: The Changing Chinese Linguistic Situation in Suriname under New Migration

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Assessing the sociolinguistic situation of the Maroon creoles

Assessing the sociolinguistic situation of the Maroon creoles

Language variation in parliamentary speech in Suriname

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