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Sranan language --- -Sranantonga language --- Taki-Taki language --- Creole dialects, English --- Dictionaries --- -Dutch --- Sranantonga language --- Dictionaries&delete& --- Dutch --- Slang --- Dutch. --- Slang.

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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.

Sranan language --- Creole dialects, English --- Sranantonga language --- Taki-Taki language --- Word formation. --- Creole Studies. --- Language Contact. --- Morphology.

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Proposing a new methodological approach to documenting languages spoken in multilingual societies, this book retraces the investigation of one unique linguistic space, the Creole varieties referred to as Takitaki in multilingual French Guiana. It illustrates how interactional sociolinguistic, anthropological linguistic, discourse analytical and quantitative sociolinguistic approaches can be integrated with structural approaches to language in order to resolve rarely discussed questions systematically (what are the outlines of the community, who is a rightful speaker, what speech should be documented) that frequently crop up in projects of language documentation in multilingual contexts. The authors argue that comprehensively documenting complex linguistic phenomena requires taking into account the views of all local social actors (native and non-native speakers, institutions, linguists, non-speakers, etc.), applying a range of complementary data collection and analysis methods and putting issues of ideology, variation, language contact and interaction centre stage. This book will be welcomed by researchers in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, fieldwork studies, language documentation and language variation and change.

Creolan languages --- Grammar --- French Guiana --- Sranan language --- Grammar, Historical --- Languages --- Sranan (langue) --- Grammaire historique --- Grammar, Historical. --- Languages. --- Grammaire historique. --- Sranantonga language --- Taki-Taki language --- Creole dialects, English --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Sranan language - Grammar, Historical --- Sranan language - French Guiana --- French Guiana - Languages