Surviving the Middle Passage: The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund(Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [Tilsm])

Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [Tilsm]

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