A tale of two dialect regions: Sranan's 17th-century English input

A tale of two dialect regions: Sranan's 17th-century English input
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Publisher : Language Science Press
Total Pages : 184
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ISBN-10 : 9783961101559
ISBN-13 : 3961101558
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Download or read book A tale of two dialect regions: Sranan's 17th-century English input written by André Sherriah and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the precise origin of the early English lexical and lexico-phonetic influences in Sranan, an English-based creole spoken in Suriname. Sranan contains "fossilised" linguistic remnants of an early English colonial period. The book discusses whether Sranan’s English influence(s) originated from a single dialect from the general London area, as proposed by Norval Smith in 1987, or whether we are dealing with a composite of dialectal features from all over England. The book introduces a novel replicable methodology for linguistic reconstructions, which combines statistics (in the form of binomial probability), English dialect geography (via use of Orton’s et. al., 1962–1971, Survey of English Dialects, which focuses on traditional regional English dialects across England and Wales), and 17th-century English migration history (compiled from The Complete Book of Emigrants: 1607–1660,The Bristol Registers of Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations, 1654–1686, Virtual Jamestown, Virginia Center for Digital History, and Colonial State Papers secured from the British History Online databases, among other relevant historical sources).


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