TY  - BOOK
AU  - Braun,Maria
TI  - Word-Formation and Creolisation: The Case of Early Sranan 
T2  - Linguistische Arbeiten ,
SN  - 9783484305175
U1  - 417.22 
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - Tübingen : 
PB  - Max Niemeyer Verlag, 
KW  - Kreolistik
KW  - Morphologie
KW  - Sprachkontakt
KW  - FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / English as a Second Language
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Creole Studies
KW  - Language Contact
KW  - Morphology
N1  - Dissertation; Frontmatter --; Table of contents --; 1 Introduction --; 2 Creolisation and word-formation: some central issues --; 3 The socio-historical and demographic background of Early Sranan --; 4 Methodology --; 5 Early Sranan word-formation: establishing a descriptive framework --; 6 Multifunctionality of lexical items in Early Sranan --; 7 Concatenative patterns --; 8 Reduplication patterns --; 9 The emergence of Early Sranan word-formation: a conclusion --; Backmatter; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - This book explores a relatively little investigated area of creole languages, word-formation. It provides the most comprehensive account so far of the word-formation patterns of an English-based creole language, Sranan, as found in its earliest sources, and compares them with the patterns attested in the input languages. One of the few studies of creole morphology based on historical data, the book discusses the theoretical problems arising with the historical analysis of creole word-formation and provides an analysis along the lines of Booij’s (2005, 2007) Construction Morphology in which the assumed boundaries between affixation, compounding and syntactic constructions play a very minor role. It shows that Early Sranan word-formation is characterised by the absence of superstrate derivational affixes, the use of free morphemes as derivational markers and of compounding as the major word-formation strategy. The emergence of Early Sranan word-formation involved multiple sources (the input languages, universals, language-internal development) and different mechanisms (reanalysis of free morphemes as derivational markers, adaptation of superstrate complex words, transfer from the substrates and the creation of innovations). The findings render untenable theoretical accounts of creole genesis based on one explanatory factor, such as superstrate or substrate influence
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783484970229
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783484970229
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783484970229/original
ER  -