Boundaries and bridges : language contact in multilingual ecologies / edited by Kofi Yakpo and Pieter C. Muysken.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yakpo, Kofi, editor, author.

Muysken, Pieter, editor, author.

Series:

Language contact and bilingualism ; 2190-698X 14.

Language contact and bilingualism, 2190-698X ; volume 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Languages in contact--Suriname.

Languages in contact.

Multilingualism--Suriname.

Multilingualism.

Sociolinguistics--Suriname.

Sociolinguistics.

Languages in contact--Guiana.

Suriname.

Physical Description:

x, 443 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Walter de Gruyter Inc., 2017.

Summary:

This series offers a wide forum for work on contact linguistics, using an integrated approach to both diachronic and synchronic manifestations of contact, ranging from social and individual aspects to structural-typological issues. Topics covered by the series include child and adult bilingualism and multilingualism, contact languages, borrowing and contact-induced typological change, code switching in conversation, societal multilingualism, bilingual language processing, and various other topics related to language contact. The series does not have a fixed theoretical orientation, and include.

Contents:

Overview and background

Kofi Yakpo and Pieter Muysken: Language contact and change in the multilingual ecologies of the Guianas

Robert Borges: The people and languages of Suriname. Case studies. Kofi Yakpo: Creole in transition: contact with Dutch and typological change in Sranan

Robert Borges: The maroon creoles of the Guianas: expansion, contact, and hybridization

Kofi Yakpo: Out of India: language contact and change in Sarnami (Caribbean Hindustani)

Sophie Villerius: Developments in Surinamese Javanese

Luis Miguel Rojas-Berscia with Jia Ann Shi: Hakka as spoken in Suriname

Sergio Meira and Pieter Muysken: Cariban in contact: new perspectives on Trio-Ndyuka pidgin

Eithne B. Carlin: Language contact in Southern Suriname: the case of trio â¿¿and Wayana

Konrad Rybka: Contact-induced phenomena in Lokono (Arawakan)

Pieter Muysken: The transformation of a colonial language: Surinamese Dutch

Comparative perspectives. Robert Borges, Pieter Muysken, Sophie Villerius and Kofi Yakpo: The tense-mood-aspect systems of the languages of Suriname

Bettina Migge: From grammar to meaning: towards a framework for studying synchronic language contact

Kofi Yakpo and Pieter Muysken: Multilingual ecologies in the Guianas: overview, typology, prospects.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9781614516842

1614516847

OCLC:

931647863