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A Tale of Two Dialect Regions

A Tale of Two Dialect Regions

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Linguistics

ISBN10: 1013293436
ISBN13: 9781013293436
Publisher: Saint Philip Street Pr
Published: Oct 9 2020
Pages: 182
Weight: 1.57
Height: 0.44 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
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.

This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

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