Saramaccan, a very mixed language: Systematicity in the distribution of function words?
Saramaccan is the descendant of a mixed creole language formerly spoken on Portuguese Jewish-owned plantations in Surinam, South America. Its mixed nature reveals itself in roughly equal numbers of monomorphemic English-derived and Portuguese-derived lexical items. In terms of function words, howeve...
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| Language: | Portuguese |
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Universidade do Porto
2012-01-01
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| Series: | Linguística |
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| Online Access: | http://ler.letras.up.pt/uploads/ficheiros/10745.pdf |