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In and Out of Suriname
In and Out of Suriname: Language, Mobility and Identityoffers a fresh multidisciplinary approach to multilingual Surinamese society, that breaks through the notion of bounded ethnicity enshrined in historical and ethnographic literature on Suriname.
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Boundaries and bridges : language contact in multilingual ecologies
This series offers a wide forum for work on contact linguistics, using an integrated approach to both diachronic and synchronic manifestations of contact, ranging from social and individual aspects to structural-typological issues. Topics covered by the series include child and adult bilingualism and multilingualism, contact languages, borrowing and contact-induced typological change, code switching in conversation, societal multilingualism, bilingual language processing, and various other topics related to language contact. The series does not have a fixed theoretical orientation, and includes contributions from a variety of approaches.
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AN INNOVATIVE MAIN CLAUSE CONSTRUCTION WITH ERGATIVE PATTERNS IN KARI’NJA (CARIBAN, SURINAME)
This paper presents an analysis of an innovative finite main clause construction in Kari’nja (Cariban, Suriname). Although mentioned briefly in previous works, there has to date been no principled description of the construction. Nevertheless, it appears with some frequency in texts of procedural narratives based on documentation videos.
The construction is unique in Kari’nja in that it exhibits ergative patterns of morphosyntax. This is typologically significant in that it represents a counter-universal, tense/aspect-based ergative split. This claim is validated based on the construction’s consistence with an imperfective aspectual value and non-past tense.
In addition to describing formal and functional properties of the synchronic construction, this paper examines potential source constructions, situates it among cognate constructions in other languages in the family, and posits a mechanism by which it entered main clauses. In addition, an examination of the genres in which it appears addresses why the construction has not been described to date.
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Linguistic Archaeology, Kinship Terms, and Language Contact in Suriname
As a relatively young linguistic area, Suriname offers great possibilities for understanding the processes that produce complex outcomes of language contact. In this article, directionality, mechanisms, and relative chronology of contact-induced changes are reconstructed by examining synchronic variation and diachronic changes in the semantics of kinship terminology for a sample of Surinamese languages.
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