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Boundaries and Bridges : Language Contact in Multilingual Ecologies / ed. by Kofi Yakpo, Pieter C. Muysken.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB] ; 14Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (X, 443 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781614516842
  • 9781501501142
  • 9781614514886
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 404.2 23/eng/20240417
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- Overview and background -- Language contact and change in the multilingual ecologies of the Guianas -- The people and languages of Suriname -- Case studies -- Creole in transition: Contact with Dutch and typological change in Sranan -- The Maroon creoles of the Guianas: Expansion, contact, and hybridization -- Out of India: Language contact and change in Sarnami (Caribbean Hindustani) -- Developments in Surinamese Javanese -- Hakka as spoken in Suriname -- Cariban in contact: New perspectives on Trio-Ndyuka pidgin -- Language contact in Southern Suriname: The case of Trio and Wayana -- Contact-induced phenomena in Lokono (Arawakan) -- The transformation of a colonial language: Surinamese Dutch -- Comparative perspectives -- The tense-mood-aspect systems of the languages of Suriname -- From grammar to meaning: Towards a framework for studying synchronic language contact -- Multilingual ecologies in the Guianas: Overview, typology, prospects -- References -- Author index -- Subject and language index
Summary: Multidirectional language contact involving more than two languages is little described. However, it probably represents the most common type of contact in the world, where colonization, rapid socioeconomic and demographic change, and society-wide multilingualism have led to dramatic linguistic change. This book presents fascinating cases of multidirectional contact and convergence between highly diverse languages in an emerging linguistic area in Suriname and the Guianas and proposes a framework for comparable studies.
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- Overview and background -- Language contact and change in the multilingual ecologies of the Guianas -- The people and languages of Suriname -- Case studies -- Creole in transition: Contact with Dutch and typological change in Sranan -- The Maroon creoles of the Guianas: Expansion, contact, and hybridization -- Out of India: Language contact and change in Sarnami (Caribbean Hindustani) -- Developments in Surinamese Javanese -- Hakka as spoken in Suriname -- Cariban in contact: New perspectives on Trio-Ndyuka pidgin -- Language contact in Southern Suriname: The case of Trio and Wayana -- Contact-induced phenomena in Lokono (Arawakan) -- The transformation of a colonial language: Surinamese Dutch -- Comparative perspectives -- The tense-mood-aspect systems of the languages of Suriname -- From grammar to meaning: Towards a framework for studying synchronic language contact -- Multilingual ecologies in the Guianas: Overview, typology, prospects -- References -- Author index -- Subject and language index

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Multidirectional language contact involving more than two languages is little described. However, it probably represents the most common type of contact in the world, where colonization, rapid socioeconomic and demographic change, and society-wide multilingualism have led to dramatic linguistic change. This book presents fascinating cases of multidirectional contact and convergence between highly diverse languages in an emerging linguistic area in Suriname and the Guianas and proposes a framework for comparable studies.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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