Word-formation and creolisation
Subtitle: the case of early Sranan
By: Maria Braun
Series: Linguistische Arbeiten -- 517
Publisher: Niemeyer
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9783484305175
Subjects: Sranan language; Grammar; Historical Grammar
Description: "This book presents a comprehensive account of the word-formation patterns of an English-based creole language, Sranan, as found in its earliest sources, and compares them with the patterns attested in the input languages. It shows that the emergence of the patterns involved a variety of sources and mechanisms and was characterised by the absence of superstrate derivational affixes, the use of free morphemes as derivational markers and of compounding as the major word-formation strategy. The findings render untenable theoretical accounts of creole genesis based on one explanatory factor." --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-309).