Demographic Factors in the Formation of Sranan

Arends, Jacques

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“…During the English period and the early Dutch reign the population was characterized by relatively small ratios of Africans to Europeans, and earlier slaves to newly imported slaves. The ratio of Africans to Europeans remained relatively constant between 2:1 and 3:1 and the ratio between pre-existing slaves and newly imported slaves was less than 1:2 (Arends, 1995). By 1667, there were about 1,500…”

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“…However, this volume focuses on the influence of Gbe languages, since both the sociohistorical (Arends, 1995) and linguistic (see below) evidence strongly suggest that speakers of Gbe were the most numerous and influential in the formation period of the early plantation variety (1670 -1700) and for some time thereafter. The other African languages which were also present in the formative contact situation, Kikongo and Akan, appear to have contributed much less to the grammar of the Surinamese Plantation Creole, though Kikongo, and to a small extent, Akan and other West African languages contributed to the vocabulary (Arends, 1994;Huttar, 1985;Huttar et al, 2007;Price, 1975).…”

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Cross-linguistic influence in language creation: Assessing the role of the Gbe languages in the formation of the Creoles of Suriname

Essegbey

Migge

Winford

2013

Lingua

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Section: A Brief Historical Overviewmentioning

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Cross-linguistic influence in language creation: Assessing the role of the Gbe languages in the formation of the Creoles of Suriname

Essegbey

Migge

Winford

2013

Lingua

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“…3 I thank Armin Schwegler for suggesting this etymological origin of kuutu. Bakongo men and women (speakers of Kikongo) were almost certainly among the early and later contingents of Suriname slaves (Arends 1995). In other parts of the Americas, Kikongo kútu has also been preserved.…”

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Creoles, Contact, and Language Change

Migge

2004

Creole Language Library

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This volume contains a selection of fifteen papers presented at three consecutive meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, held in Washington, D.C. (January 2001); Coimbra, Portugal (June 2001); and San Francisco (January 2002). The fifteen articles offer a balanced sampling of creolists’ current research interests. All of the contributions address questions directly relevant to pidgin/creole studies and other contact languages. The majority of papers address issues of morphology or syntax. Some of the contributions make use of phonological analysis while others study language development from the point of view of acquisition. A few papers examine discourse strategies and style, or broader issues of social and ethnic identity. While this array of topics and perspectives is reflective of the diversity of the field, there is also much common ground in that all of the papers adduce solid data corpora to support their analyses. The range of languages analyzed spans the planet, as approximately twenty contact varieties are studied in this volume.

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“…Over the past twenty years, several linguists have argued that creole genesis is best described as a gradual process involving successive stages in the acquisition of L2 French or L2 English (e.g., Arends 1995;Chaudenson 1981Chaudenson , 1989Migge 1998;Singler 1996). This theory can be called the SLA/gradualist model of creole genesis.…”

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Noun Phrases in L2 French and Haitian: Clues on the Origin of Plantation Creoles

Mather¹

2005

J. Univers. Lang.

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This article provides evidence from studies on second language acquisition in support of the gradualist model of creole genesis. According to this model, creole genesis is viewed as a gradual process away from the lexifier language, as successive generations of African slaves acquired increasingly divergent varieties of the emerging contact language. This article provides examples on the L2 acquisition of French, and compares interlanguage structures with Haitian, a radical French-lexifier creole. Using examples within the NP domain, I conclude that many creole features can be accounted for in terms of second language acquisition, either as 1) the transfer of L1 features (via e.g., relexification), 2) the acquisition of L2 features, or 3) interlanguage structures found neither in the L1 or the L2, including innovations (e.g., reanalysis or grammaticalization) or other developmental stages in second language acquisition. The article also discusses the origin of tense-mood-aspect markers, which are not attested in the L2 data and may be better explained in terms of first, rather than second language acquisition processes.

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Demographic Factors in the Formation of Sranan

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Cross-linguistic influence in language creation: Assessing the role of the Gbe languages in the formation of the Creoles of Suriname

Cross-linguistic influence in language creation: Assessing the role of the Gbe languages in the formation of the Creoles of Suriname

Creoles, Contact, and Language Change

Noun Phrases in L2 French and Haitian: Clues on the Origin of Plantation Creoles

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