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Author_Jeff Good
Author_John McWhorter
Category=CFK
Creole Language
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Product details
- ISBN 9783110276435
- Weight: 598g
- Dimensions: 170 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 15 Oct 2012
- Publisher: De Gruyter
- Publication City/Country: DE
- Product Form: Hardback
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Saramaccan has been central to various debates regarding the origin and nature of creole languages. Being the most removed of all English-based creoles from European language structure in terms of phonology, morphology and syntax, it has been seen as one of the most extreme instantiations of the creolization process. This is the first full-length description of Saramaccan. The grammar documents, in particular, a valence-sensitive system of indicating movement and direction via serial verb constructions, hitherto overlooked amidst the generalized phenomenon of serialization itself.
John H. McWhorter, Columbia University, New York, USA; Jeff Good, University at Buffalo, New York, USA.
