... partidarios abogaban por un mayor papel para el sranan, la lengua franca criolla surinamense, en la vida ... los prejuicios históricos desfavorables y la estigmatización del sranan dificul-taron los esfuerzos de promover y eleva ... una nación étnicamente muy diversa. La asociación del sranan como la propiedad de los criollos, una minoría ... en contraste con el resto del Caribe, el sranan goza de un reconocimiento bastante difundido como una ... ha facilitado la planificacion lingüística en favor del sranan. El nacionalismo cultural tuvo cierto éxito en elevar ...
Tópico(s): Linguistic Variation and Morphology
1999 - John Benjamins Publishing Company | Language Problems & Language Planning
Margot C. van den Berg, Enoch O. Aboh,
... post-verbal kaba 'already' in the Surinamese Creole Sranan Tongo is generally assumed to mainly derive from ... construction (S…V…V[finish]) upon which the Sranan Tongo completive marker kaba is claimed to have ... completion. One can therefore wonder to what extent Sranan Tongo adopts such pattern. Given that English and ... could have contributed to the emergence of the Sranan Tongo pattern. This paper addresses this issue by studying the expression of event completion in the Sranan Tongo while comparing it to English and Gbe ...
Tópico(s): Multilingual Education and Policy
2013 - Elsevier BV | Lingua
... adjectives like bigi 'big', bradi 'wide', etc. in Sranan (and other creoles) are truly adjectives or a ... of degree. So-called predicate adjective structures in Sranan fall into two categories — those where property items ... conclusions apply more specifically to the variety of Sranan spoken as a native language by the majority ... African-descended population of Suriname. Another dialect of Sranan, associated primarily with non-native speakers, appears to ...
Tópico(s): Law, logistics, and international trade
1997 - John Benjamins Publishing Company | Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
Some linguists regard predicate adjectives in Sranan and other creole languages as stative verbs, one argument being the absence of a copula before such adjectives. An analysis by Seuren, ... hand, treats predicate adjectives as true adjectives in Sranan: an underlying copula fails to surface before them. This paper argues for an analysis which treats Sranan predicate adjectives as a type of stative verb, ... by positing the existence of "extent phrases" in Sranan. These may modify a verb or copula; except ...
Tópico(s): Basque language and culture studies
1986 - John Benjamins Publishing Company | Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
Bettina Migge, Donald Winford,
... We first describe the systems of possibility in Sranan and three Maroon creoles (Ndyuka, Pamaka, and Saamaka), ... analysis reveals that the system of possibility in Sranan is organized quite differently from that of the ... by drawing on historical data from the early Sranan and Saamaka texts, and by exploring possible influence ... Gbe while the rather different system found in Sranan Tongo is due primarily to influence from Dutch, ...
Tópico(s): Caribbean and African Literature and Culture
2009 - John Benjamins Publishing Company | Creole language library
This paper concerns the orthography of Sranan, an English-lexicon creole spoken by a majority of the population in Surinam (South America), which also has many speakers in the Netherlands. Sranan has a long written tradition and has had ... orthographic practices, past and present, used in writing Sranan, to argue that orthographies are shaped less by ...
Tópico(s): Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies
2000 - De Gruyter | Linguistics
... in creole languages such as Negerhollands, Bajan, and Sranan, allows for a detailed and empirically founded reconstruction ... of <i>taki</i> as a complementizer in Sranan (Plag); the historical development of relativization in Sranan (Bruyn); the cultural and demographic background of creolization ... Stein); and demographic factors in the formation of Sranan (Arends).
Tópico(s): Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies
1996 - John Benjamins Publishing Company | Creole language library
James Essegbey, Felix K. Ameka,
... Anfoe, Anlo, Fon and Ayizo, with those of Sranan. “Cut” verbs are change-of-state verbs that ... the meanings of “cut” and break verbs in Sranan are closer to those of their etymons in ... and “break” verbs between the Gbe languages and Sranan, the syntax of the verbs in Sranan is similar to that of the Eastern Gbe ...
Tópico(s): Lexicography and Language Studies
2007 - John Benjamins Publishing Company | Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
André C. Sherriah, Hubert Devonish, Ewart A. C. Thomas, Nicole Creanza,
... and European colonialism. One such Creole in Suriname, Sranan, developed around the mid-seventeenth century, primarily out ... The vast majority of the basic words in Sranan come from the language of the dominant group, ... Here, we compare linguistic features of modern-day Sranan with those of English as spoken in 313 ... hypotheses for the origin of English words in Sranan, we find that 80% of the studied features of Sranan can be explained by similarity to regional dialect ... least two English dialects in the formation of Sranan. In addition to explicating the dialect features most ...
Tópico(s): Language and cultural evolution
2018 - Royal Society | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
The paper investigates the distribution of determiners in Sranan, which differs both from that in the lexifier, ... the primary distinctions. The distribution of articles in Sranan does not conform to the proposal by Bickerton ( ...
Tópico(s): Linguistics and language evolution
2007 - John Benjamins Publishing Company | Creole language library
... been assumed that the coastal creole of Suriname, Sranan, was a completely non-tonal language. It will ... not a completely correct position. It appears that Sranan does have certain properties reminiscent of tone languages. ...
Tópico(s): Phonetics and Phonology Research
2006 - De Gruyter | Language Typology and Universals
... binary branching, 4a schematically represents VP in the Sranan 1a, 2a, and 3a. Extending the analysis to ... V1 of Ijo̩ corresponds hierarchically to V1 of Sranan, we expect the latter to be final where ... complement positions, in Kayne’s view. Ijo̩ and Sranan thus have the same underlying representation; local raising ...
Tópico(s): Phonetics and Phonology Research
2002 - Linguistic Society of America | Language
... in the genesis of one English-based creole, Sranan. In the emergence of Sranan, as in that of many other creoles, we ...
Tópico(s): Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
2001 - Elsevier BV | Lingua
Comparative and sociohistorical facts suggest that Sranan arose among castle slaves on the Gold Coast in the 1630s. Jamaican Maroon Spirit Language is an offshoot of early Sranan, which allows the deduction that créole English had ... of Blacks. Such conditions were unlikely to produce Sranan, and conditions in other English colonies were similar, ...
Tópico(s): Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
1997 - John Benjamins Publishing Company | Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
... than a single-generational origin for Haitian and Sranan respectively. Both arguments, however, are severely flawed. The ... language. Arends' claims of radical diachronic change in Sranan involve treating as an early creole sample a ... is inconsistent with the emergence of Haitian and Sranan as full languages in a single generation.
Tópico(s): Historical Linguistics and Language Studies
1991 - John Benjamins Publishing Company | Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
Sranan is the main Creole language of Surinam (formerly Dutch Guyana).Its tense and aspect system is, ... the CoWiplexities of the copula verb (BE) in Sranan.Although, strictly speaking, this is a separate topic ...
Tópico(s): Linguistics and Cultural Studies
1981 - De Gruyter | Linguistics
... in a corpus of primary field data of Sranan, Sarnami, and Surinamese Javanese, three languages of Suriname. ... either directly from Dutch, or from Dutch via Sranan. The parallel multilingual trajectory of contact-induced change ...
Tópico(s): Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
2023 - John Benjamins Publishing Company | Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
... Indian languages, and the effects of multilingualism involving Sranan Tongo and Dutch, the two dominant languages of ... We conclude that the ever growing influence of Sranan Tongo and Dutch may lead to more extensive ...
Tópico(s): Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
2014 - John Benjamins Publishing Company | Creole language library
The Sranan verb taigi ‘say to, tell’ is used when a dative object is identified, but in the 18th ... optional dative marker. Working from a corpus of Sranan texts spanning the 18th and 19th centuries, I ...
Tópico(s): Lexicography and Language Studies
2009 - John Benjamins Publishing Company | Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
... to participate in the causative/inchoative alternation. In Sranan, a verb that superficially looks like ‘cut’ in ...
Tópico(s): Phonetics and Phonology Research
2007 - De Gruyter Mouton | Cognitive Linguistics
... tense/aspect systems in Haitian French Creole and Sranan Tongo. Creole formation involves a process of restructuring ... influence result in differences between Haitian Creole and Sranan Tongo in their inventory of tense/aspect categories, ...
Tópico(s): Phonetics and Phonology Research
2006 - John Benjamins Publishing Company | Creole language library
Preview this article: Irrealis in Sranan: Mood and modality in a radical creole, Page 1 of 1 < Previous page | Next page > /docserver/preview/fulltext/jpcl.15.1. ...
Tópico(s): Linguistics and language evolution
2000 - John Benjamins Publishing Company | Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
... aspect in narrative texts in Tok Pisin and Sranan indicates that this is not the case in ...
Tópico(s): Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
1990 - Cambridge University Press | Language Variation and Change
... of serial verbs: An investigation into serialisation in Sranan and other languages. By Mark Sebba, Page 1 ...
Tópico(s): Gender Studies in Language
1988 - John Benjamins Publishing Company | Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
Among the Surinamese creoles, Sranan is a stress-accent language whereas both Ndyuka and Saramaccan exhibit phonological tone in addition to stress. Previous attempts to explain this historical divergence understand tone loss in Sranan to be directly associated with its innovation of ...
Tópico(s): Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
2016 - University of Edinburgh | Papers in Historical Phonology
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Tópico(s): Ancient Near East History
1986 - John Benjamins Publishing Company | Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
... general shift in urban areas toward Dutch and Sranan Tongo. However, this shift might be proceeding at ... variable levels of linguistic competence in Dutch and Sranan Tongo.
Tópico(s): Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
2018 - Brill | New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids
In the Surinamese creole language Sranan, verbs in finite clauses that lack overt TMA-marking are often considered to be ambiguous between past and present interpretations (depending ...
Tópico(s): Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
2014 - John Benjamins Publishing Company | Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
Preview this article: Syntactic developments in Sranan: Creolization as a gradual process. By Jacques Arends, Page 1 of 1 < Previous page | Next page > /docserver/preview/fulltext/jpcl.6.1. ...
Tópico(s): Linguistic Variation and Morphology
1991 - John Benjamins Publishing Company | Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
... article: The syntax of some locative expressions in Sranan: Preposition, postposition, or noun?, Page 1 of 1 < ...
Tópico(s): Historical Linguistics and Language Studies
1998 - John Benjamins Publishing Company | Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages