A Deep Breath and a Second Wind: The Substrate Hypothesis Reassessed  

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McWhorter, John H.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 38 no. 3 (1996), page 461-494.
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Substrate transfer in creoles is often attributed to slaves brought to a colony at the time that the creole emerged as a distinct variety. This approach neglects genetic relationships between various creoles, thus often making a substrate analysis invalid without reference to progenitors of the creole in question. This paper demonstrates this fact via Saramaccan, showing that it inherited its fundamental structure from pre-existent Sranan, which in turn is likely to have emerged on the Ghanaian coast. Developmental accounts of Saramaccan are thus incomplete when they refer only to creators of Saramaccan itself, and West African influence on Saramaccan must be seen as partly inherited from structures that were properly transferred into Sranan. Also, an explicit method for identifying transfer in creoles is proposed.

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