TY - BOOK ID - 32484032 TI - Surviving the Middle Passage : the West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund AU - Muysken, Pieter AU - Smith, Norval AU - Borges, Robert PY - 2015 SN - 9783110343854 9783110343977 9783110394993 3110394995 3110343975 3110343851 3110555425 9783110343984 3110343983 9783110555424 PB - Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, DB - UniCat KW - Languages in contact KW - Gbe languages KW - Bantu languages KW - Langues en contact KW - Langues éwé KW - Langues bantoues KW - Congresses KW - Grammar, Comparative KW - Bantu KW - Gbe KW - Congrès KW - Grammaire comparée KW - Bantou KW - Ewé KW - Africa, West KW - Afrique occidentale KW - Languages KW - Langues KW - Bantu languages -- Grammar, Comparative -- Gbe. KW - Gbe languages -- Grammar, Comparative -- Bantu. KW - Languages in contact -- African, West. KW - Languages in contact -- Suriname. KW - Bantu. KW - Gbe. KW - African, West KW - Kintu languages KW - Ntu languages KW - Sintu languages KW - Ewe languages KW - Grammar, Comparative&delete& KW - Benue-Congo languages KW - Kwa languages KW - Areal linguistics KW - Languages. KW - E-books KW - African Diaspora. KW - Middle Passage. KW - Trans Atlantic Sprachbund. KW - African diaspora. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32484032 AB - This book is about the close historical and linguistic relationship between the languages of Surinam and Benin, a relationship which can be viewed in terms of a Trans Atlantic Sprachbund or linguistic area. It consists of a detailed analysis of various possible substrate and adstrate effects in a number of components of the grammar, in the Surinam Creole languages, primarily from the Gbe languages of Benin but also from Kikongo. ER -