Returning a maverick creole to the fold : the Berbice Dutch enigma revisited
Berbice Dutch was a creole language spoken in the Republic of Guyana in South America, a country first under Dutch, and later under British colonial rule. Owing mainly to Silvia Kouwenberg (A grammar of Berbice Dutch Creole, De Gruyter Mouton, 1994), we were blessed with a detailed synchronic documentation of Berbice Dutch before its demise. However, the formation of the language remains clouded in mystery: its grammar and (basic) lexicon display a seemingly unique mixture of Dutch (Creole) and Eastern Ijo, as a result of which the language is often portrayed as a challenge to existing contact... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | artykuł w czasopiśmie |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2023 |
Schlagwörter: | Berbice Dutch / Berbice River / creolisation / Dutch / Eastern Ijo / Guyana / intertwined languages |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27413053 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://ruj.uj.edu.pl/xmlui/handle/item/306806 |