Saramaccan, a very mixed language: Systematicity in the distribution of function words?

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Autor(a) principal: Smith, Norval
Data de Publicação: 2017
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: por
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: https://ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/EL/article/view/2723
Resumo: Saramaccan is the descendant of a mixed creole language formerly spoken on Portuguese Jewish-owned plantations in Surinam, South America. Its mixed nature reveals itself in roughly equal numbers of monomorphemic English-derived and Portuguese-derived lexical items. In terms of function words, however, English-derived function words dominate to the proportion of 4:1. This still leaves us with a significant number of Portuguese function words. Here I make a preliminary study of spatial adpositions and question words. This reveals a strong correlation between words referring to “place” and words derived from Portuguese. I take account of the presence of Jewish-owned plantations and large-scale marronnage towards the end of the 17th century, the latter leading to formation of the Saramaccan tribe.
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title Saramaccan, a very mixed language: Systematicity in the distribution of function words?
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Smith, Norval
Artigos
title_short Saramaccan, a very mixed language: Systematicity in the distribution of function words?
title_full Saramaccan, a very mixed language: Systematicity in the distribution of function words?
title_fullStr Saramaccan, a very mixed language: Systematicity in the distribution of function words?
title_full_unstemmed Saramaccan, a very mixed language: Systematicity in the distribution of function words?
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description Saramaccan is the descendant of a mixed creole language formerly spoken on Portuguese Jewish-owned plantations in Surinam, South America. Its mixed nature reveals itself in roughly equal numbers of monomorphemic English-derived and Portuguese-derived lexical items. In terms of function words, however, English-derived function words dominate to the proportion of 4:1. This still leaves us with a significant number of Portuguese function words. Here I make a preliminary study of spatial adpositions and question words. This reveals a strong correlation between words referring to “place” and words derived from Portuguese. I take account of the presence of Jewish-owned plantations and large-scale marronnage towards the end of the 17th century, the latter leading to formation of the Saramaccan tribe.
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