Date: 2006 Pages: 41 Saramaccan is a maroon creole language spoken in Surinam.1 Surinam is the smallest mainland South American country, with about 490,000 inhabitants according to the 2004 census. In addition about 350,000 Surinamers live in the Netherlands. It is one of the two creole languages that have resulted from the various bouts of marronage in Surinam (Ndyuka being...
Publisher: L'Harmattan Date: 2000 Pages: 192 Ce livre n'est pas oeuvre de linguiste, et les auteurs sont conscients de la nécessité d'un travail plus approfondi et plus rigoureux sur le saramaka. Tel quel néammoins, il comble une lacune: il n'existait pas pour le francophone de lexique ou de manuel permettant d'aborder cette langue, qui est pourtant reconnue officiellement...
Publisher: Summer Institute of Linguistics Date: 1992 Pages: 44 Saramaccan (autonym: Saamáka) is a creole language spoken by about 24,000 people near the Saramacca and upper Suriname Rivers in Suriname (formerly also known as Dutch Guyana), and 2,000 in French Guiana. The speakers are mostly descendants of fugitive slaves; they form a group called Saramacca, also spelled...
Publisher: University of Buffalo Publication date: N.A. ISBN: N.A. Number of pages: 55 Saramaccan is an Atlantic creole spoken primarily in Suriname, though there are also speakers in French Guiana as well as a substantial diaspora population in the Netherlands. The fifteenth edition of the Ethnologue estimates that there are about 26,000 speakers of the languages. It is a...
Publisher: Sslonikk Date: 2012 Pages: 42 The vocabulary contains 1303 meaning-word pairs from the recipient language Saramaccan. The corresponding text chapter was published in the book Loanwords in the World's Languages. The language page Saramaccan contains a list of all loanwords arranged by donor languoid.
Date: 2001 Pages: 108 This paper bears on the properties and on the historical derivation of the multifunctional lexical item táa (and related lexical items) in Saramaccan, henceforth SA. SA is a creole spoken in Surinam. Its lexifier or superstrate languages are English (50% of basic vocabulary) and Portuguese (35% of basic vocabulary according to Smith 1987, 37% according to...
Lingua, 2012 - 44 p. In this paper, I intend to shed light on the stative vs. dynamic distinction in Saam aka. As in many other creoles, utterances containing an unmarked stative verb have a present interpretation, while those containing an unmarked dynamic verb have a past interpretation. Based on detailed eldwork, I will demonstrate that the discourse contexts in which the...
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter (September 13, 2012) Series: Moutan Grammar Library (Book 56) Hardcover: 400 p. Language: English Saramaccan has been central to various debates regarding the origin and nature of creole languages. Being the most removed of all English-based creoles from European language structure in terms of phonology, morphology and syntax, it has been seen as...
Amsterdam: J. Muller, 1914. — 127 s. In den Texten und dein Wörterbuch die ich hier veröffentliche, wird das Kreolische der Buschneger von Surinam, genauer gesagt, eines Stammes derselben, der Saramakkaner zum ersten Male der wissenschaftlichen Benutzung zuganglich gemacht. Sie sind schon vor dreissig Jahren in meinen Besitz gelangt, dank dem freundlichen Entgegenkommen der...
Published in Pidgin and Creole Languages: Schuchardt H., Glenn G. Selected essays by Hugo Schuchardt. - 2009. - pp. 89-126. Editor's Introduction The original text of Schuchardt's Die Sprache der Saramakkaneger in Surinam (1914c) consisted of an introduction (literary 'preliminary report, Vorbericht), pages i-xxxvi; chapters 1-13 of Acts, translated ¡mo Saramaccan by I.L....
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