Genesis and Development of the Equative Copula in Sranan

The research on the formation of (radical) creoles has seen an unprecedented intensification and diversification in the last 20 years. This book discusses, illustrates, and evaluates current research on creole formation based on an in-depth investigation of the processes and mechanisms that contributed to the emergence of the morphosyntactic system of the creoles of Suriname. The study draws on a rich corpus of a) natural conversational and elicited synchronic linguistic data from the Eastern Maroon Creole (EMC) and its main African substrate language, Gbe, b) published diachronic data from the EMC’s sister-language Sranan Tongo, and c) information on the early history of Suriname coming from socio-historical investigations. It suggests that mechanisms of deliberate and contact-induced change also involved in borrowing and particularly shift situations led to the initial formation of the creoles of Suriname while language-internal change played a role in their subsequent development.

Section: Language-internal Change and Creolesmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Creole Formation as Language Contact

Migge

2003

“…There is also another similarity: e in the Creoles is derived from the locational verb de (Arends 1986) and the initial element in the progressive construction in Gbe is also a locational verb (Jondoh 1980, Fabb 1992). …”

Section: Imperfective Is Conveyed By E In Sranan and The Eastern Maromentioning

confidence: 99%

Roots of Creole Structures

Michaelis

2008

This book reflects an ongoing shift in the study of contact languages: After a period of history-free universalism, it directs the attention to the individual historical circumstances under which the pidgin and creole languages arose. The contributions deal with different areas of language structure including phonology, morphology, and syntax, providing a wealth of structural and sociohistorical data that any comprehensive theory of contact languages will have to account for. Each of the papers provides a thorough description of a structural phenomenon against the background of the sociohistorical contact situation. The languages covered in the book are: Guiné-Bissau Creole, Haitian Creole, Hawai‘i Creole, Indo-Portuguese creoles, Jamaican Creole, Lingua Franca, North American French, Mauritian Creole, Santomense, Saramaccan, Seychelles Creole, Sranan, Surinamese Maroon creoles, Vincentian Creole, and Zamboangueño Chavacano.

“…In combination with motion verbs, the progressive construction expresses a future sense. There is also another similarity: The marker e in the Creoles is derived from the locational verb de (Arends 1986) and the initial element in the progressive construction in Gbe is also a locational verb (Jondoh 1980, Fabb 1992). …”

Section: Internal Change From a Substrate Calque: Imperfective Categorymentioning

confidence: 99%

13. Between contact and internal development: Towards a multi-layered explanation for the development of the TMA system in the creoles of Suriname

Migge¹,

Goury²

2008

This paper proposes a new analysis of the formation of the TMA system of the Surinamese Maroon Creoles based on a wide range of both contemporary and historical sources . The paper first provides a brief synopsis of the socio-historical context in which the Creoles of Suriname emerged and developed, and a broad overview of the TMA systems of those Creoles and of varieties of Gbe. It then discusses four processes that were involved in the emergence of the creole TMA system: substrate influence, internal change from a substrate calque, superstrate influence, and shift of form and category correlated with innovation. The p aper then concludes that Creole formation is to be considered as a gradual and multi-layered process (Arends 1993, Bruyn 1995, involving processes of language change that also operate in other so-called 'normal' contact settings (Thomason & Kaufman 1988).