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oapen-20.500.12657-465472023-01-31T18:46:18Z Language and Slavery Arends, Jacques Cremers, Crit Language Arts & Disciplines Linguistics Historical & Comparative Language Arts & Disciplines Linguistics Technology & Engineering Agriculture bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics::CFF Historical & comparative linguistics bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TV Agriculture & farming 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, anthropologists, literary scholars and anyone interested in Suriname. 2021-02-05T04:32:08Z 2021-02-05T04:32:08Z 2017 book 9789027265807 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46547 eng application/pdf n/a external_content.pdf John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company https://doi.org/10.1075/cll.52 https://doi.org/10.1075/cll.52 fa292f4b-9794-4566-9eff-4d0f5e4a08e9 9789027265807 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) John Benjamins Publishing Company open access
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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, anthropologists, literary scholars and anyone interested in Suriname.
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