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Word-Formation and Creolisation - The Case of Early Sranan (Hardcover)
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Word-Formation and Creolisation - The Case of Early Sranan (Hardcover)
Series: Linguistische Arbeiten
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This book explores a relatively little investigated area of creole
languages, word-formation. It provides the most comprehensive
account so far 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.
One of the few studies of creole morphology based on historical
data, the book discusses the theoretical problems arising with the
historical analysis of creole word-formation and provides an
analysis along the lines of Booij's (2005, 2007) Construction
Morphology in which the assumed boundaries between affixation,
compounding and syntactic constructions play a very minor role. It
shows that Early Sranan word-formation is 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 emergence of Early Sranan
word-formation involved multiple sources (the input languages,
universals, language-internal development) and different mechanisms
(reanalysis of free morphemes as derivational markers, adaptation
of superstrate complex words, transfer from the substrates and the
creation of innovations). The findings render untenable theoretical
accounts of creole genesis based on one explanatory factor, such as
superstrate or substrate influence.
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