TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sherriah,André
TI  - A tale of two dialect regions: Sranan's 17th-century English input 
SN  - 9783961101559
PB  - Language Science Press
KW  - Language Arts & Disciplines / Alphabets & Writing Systems
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Language arts
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - 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
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/cdea6a17-89ca-4e21-87ad-b55629ddbe7a
ER  -