Surviving the Middle Passage: The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund

Author/Contributor(s):	Muysken, Pieter C ; Smith, Norval ; Borges, Robert
Publisher:	Walter de Gruyter
Date:	11/27/2014
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

This book is about the close historical and linguistic relationship between the languages of Surinam and Benin, a relationship which can be viewed in terms of a Trans Atlantic Sprachbund or linguistic area. It consists of a detailed analysis of various possible substrate and adstrate effects in a number of components of the grammar, in the Surinam Creole languages, primarily from the Gbe languages of Benin but also from Kikongo.