Language and slavery : a social and linguistic history of the Suriname creoles

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Language and slavery : a social and linguistic history of the Suriname creoles

Title remainder

a social and linguistic history of the Suriname creoles

Statement of responsibility

Jacques Arends

Creator

• Arends, Jacques

Author

• Arends, Jacques

Subject

• Kreolische Sprachen
• Saramaccan language
• Sklaverei
• Slavery -- History
• Sociolinguistics
• Soziolinguistik
• Sprachentwicklung
• Sprachkontakt
• Sranan language
• Surinam
• Creole dialects, English -- Suriname
• Kolonialismus

Language

eng

Summary

This posthumous work by Jacques Arends offers new insights into the emergence of the creole languages of Suriname including Sranantongo or Suriname Plantation Creole, Ndyuka, and Saramaccan, and the sociohistorical context in which they developed. Drawing on a wealth of sources including little known historical texts, the author points out the relevance of European settlements prior to colonization by the English in 1651 and concludes that the formation of the Surinamese creoles goes back further than generally assumed. He provides an all-encompassing sociolinguistic overview of the colony up to the mid-19th century and shows how ethnicity, language attitude, religion and location had an effect on which languages were spoken by whom. The author discusses creole data gleaned from the earliest sources and interprets the attested variation. The book is completed by annotated textual data, both oral and written and representing different genres and stages of the Surinamese creoles. It will be of interest to linguists, historians, anthropologist, literary scholars and anyone interested in Suriname

Member of

• Creole language library, v. 52

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

409.883

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PM7862

LC item number

.A73 2017

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Creole Language Library CLL,

Series volume

volume 52