Berlin ; Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , c2012.

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Description based upon print version of record.. - Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Segmental phonology; 1.1. Segment inventory; 1.1.1. Introduction; 1.1.2. Consonants; 1.1.2.1. Oral stops; 1.1.2.2. Plain nasals and prenasalized stops; 1.1.2.3. Fricatives; 1.1.2.4. Approximants; 1.1.3. Vowels; 1.1.3.1. Basic vowel qualities; 1.1.3.2. Nasal vowels; 1.1.3.3. Long vowels and vowel combinations; 1.2. Phonotactics; 1.2.1. Syllable structure and epenthetic vowels; 1.2.2. Co-occurrence restrictions and related kinds of patterns; 1.2.3. Ideophones; 1.3. Lexical strata; 1.4. Sporadic alternations; 2 Prosodic phonology; 2.1. Introduction. - 2.2. Word-level prosody2.2.1. Introduction; 2.2.2. Accentual words; 2.2.2.1. Words with high tones and TBU's unspecified for tone; 2.2.2.2. Accented words with short syllables; 2.2.2.3. Accented words with "heavy" syllables; 2.2.2.4. Manifestations of stress and possible foot structures; 2.2.2.5. Minimal pairs; 2.2.3. Tonal words; 2.2.3.1. High tones and low tones; 2.2.3.2. Indeterminacy in determining if a word is marked for tone or accent; 2.2.3.3. Minimal pairs and tonal features of morphological processes; 2.2.3.4. Lack of evidence for stress; 2.2.3.5. Ideophones. - 2.2.4. Word-level prosody: Exceptions2.3. Phrasal prosody; 2.3.1. Tonal plateauing; 2.3.1.1. Compounds and regular reduplication; 2.3.1.2. Noun phrases; 2.3.1.3. Adpositional phrases; 2.3.1.4. Tones in the verbal complex; 2.3.1.5. Simple clauses; 2.3.1.6. Adverbial expressions; 2.3.1.7. Interaction between intonational processes and plateauing; 2.3.2. Tones in serial verb constructions; 2.4. Intonational processes; 2.4.1. Overview; 2.4.2. Utterance-final lowering; 2.4.3. Negative lowering; 2.4.4. Emphasis within a clause; 2.4.5. Yes/no questions. - 2.5. Notes on tonal and intonational phonetics and problems of analysis3 Morphology and morphophonemics; 3.1. Derivational morphology; 3.1.1. Reduplication; 3.1.1.1. Deverbal resultatives; 3.1.1.2. Intensification; 3.1.1.3. X-like; 3.1.1.4. Aggregate plural; 3.1.1.5. Nominalization; 3.1.1.6. Tone plateauing in reduplicated words; 3.1.2. The nominalizers -ma and -wã́; 3.1.3. An incipient derivational affix?; 3.2. Inflectional morphology; 3.2.1. Imperfective tá with gó 'to go'; 3.2.2. Tonal marking of verb serialization; 3.2.3. Nominal marker a-?; 3.3. Morphophonemics; 3.3.1. Possessive (f)u. - 3.3.2. Other morphophonemic processes with fu3.3.3. Negation and pronouns; 3.3.4. Third-person singular γε; 3.3.4.1. After a verb; 3.3.4.2. With locative marker a; 3.3.4.3. With negator ηá; 3.3.4.4. With copula da; 3.3.4.5. With njã́ 'eat' andfṍ 'beat'; 3.3.5. Locative (n)a; 3.3.6. Hortative verb bé; 3.4. Compounding; 3.5. Rapid speech phenomena; 4 The noun phrase; 4.1. Determiners; 4.2. Demonstratives; 4.3. Possession; 4.4. Relative clauses; 4.4.1. The accessibility hierarchy; 4.5. Quantifiers; 4.6. Coordination; 4.7. Gerunds; 4.8. Adjective + wã́ 'one'; 5 Personal pronouns. - 5.1. Pronominal inventory. - 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 one of the most extreme instantiations of the creolization process. This is the first full-length description of Saramaccan. The grammar documents, in particular, a valence-sensitive system of indicating movement and direction via serial verb constructions, hitherto overlooked amidst the generalized phenomenon of serialization itself.

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