GRAMMATICAL RELATIONS IN A RADICAL CREOLE; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; PREFACE; Table of contents; FOREWORD; CHAPTER I: THE ISSUES, THE MODEL AND THE DATA; 1.1 Saramaccan as a Creole; 1.2 Government and Binding Theory; 1.3 The Data; NOTES; CHAPTER II: SURINAME, THE SARAMAKA AND SARAMACCAN; 2.1 The Demographics of Pidginization and Creolization; 2.2 Suriname and Saramaccan; 2.2.1 Suriname; 2.2.2 Provenience of Slaves; 2.2.3 Demographics of Suriname's Slaves; 2.3 The Saramaka and Saramaccan; NOTES; CHAPTER III: ASPECTS OF THE SYNTAX OF SARAMACCAN; 3 .1 Wh-Phenomena
Summary
With English and Portuguese as parent languages; the significant lexical retention of African languages; and the relative isolation of its speakers, Saramaccan has always stood out among Creole languages. Yet despite its obvious interest Saramaccan received little in the way of scholarly study. This groundbraking monograph dispels the mystery surrounding Saramaccan and provides strong evidence for a new approach to Creole origins. The study is carried out within the government-binding framework. The author shows how Saramaccan comes close to demonstrating what constitues the irreducible minimu
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Revision of the author's thesis (Universidad de Oriente, Venezuela)--originally titled: Predicate complementation and verb serialization in Saramaccan
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Includes bibliographical references
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