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oapen-20.500.12657-248952021-11-10T07:53:00Z A tale of two dialect regions Sherriah, André Linguistics This book traces the precise origin of the early English lexical and lexico-phonetic influences in Sranan, an English-based creole spoken in Suriname. Sranan contains "fossilised" linguistic remnants of an early English colonial period. The book discusses whether Sranan’s English influence(s) originated from a single dialect from the general London area, as proposed by Norval Smith in 1987, or whether we are dealing with a composite of dialectal features from all over England. The book introduces a novel replicable methodology for linguistic reconstructions, which combines statistics (in the form of binomial probability), English dialect geography (via use of Orton’s et. al., 1962–1971, Survey of English Dialects, which focuses on traditional regional English dialects across England and Wales), and 17th-century English migration history. 2019-07-19 23:55 2020-03-10 03:00:38 2020-04-01T10:13:09Z 2020-04-01T10:13:09Z 2019-05-22 book 1005207 OCN: 1126208704 9783961101559 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24895 eng application/pdf n/a 1005207.pdf Language Science Press 10.5281/zenodo.2625403 104855 10.5281/zenodo.2625403 0bad921f-3055-43b9-a9f1-ea5b2d949173 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9783961101559 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 104855 Language Science Press 2018 - 2020 Knowledge Unlatched open access
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This book traces the precise origin of the early English lexical and lexico-phonetic influences in Sranan, an English-based creole spoken in Suriname. Sranan contains "fossilised" linguistic remnants of an early English colonial period. The book discusses whether Sranan’s English influence(s) originated from a single dialect from the general London area, as proposed by Norval Smith in 1987, or whether we are dealing with a composite of dialectal features from all over England. The book introduces a novel replicable methodology for linguistic reconstructions, which combines statistics (in the form of binomial probability), English dialect geography (via use of Orton’s et. al., 1962–1971, Survey of English Dialects, which focuses on traditional regional English dialects across England and Wales), and 17th-century English migration history.
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