The role of Dutch in language practices in the Dutch-speaking periphery: The impact of Dutch on the Eastern Maroon Creoles

Bettina Migge (1)

1 SeDyL - Structure et Dynamique des Langues

Research on the Creoles of Suriname has focused on describing their structural systemand the processes that led to their emergence and early development. The focus of most of the latter research has been on the role and impact of African languages in the genesis of these creoles, but since creole formation crucially involved language contact, in this case between the languages of enslaved Africans who created the creole(s) and their European oppressors, there has also been some discussion on the nature of the English and Portuguese input and its role in the formation of these languages. By contrast, there is very little discussion on the role of the Dutch input to the formation and development of these languages because Dutch was not well represented in Suriname during the early years.

Mots clés: language contact; Dutch; Creoles of Suriname and French Guiana; social groups

Mots clés: contact de langue; néerlandais; créoles du Surinam et de Guyane; groupes sociaux

Domaines: Linguistique

Bettina Migge. The role of Dutch in language practices in the Dutch-speaking periphery: The impact of Dutch on the Eastern Maroon Creoles. Revue Belge de Philologie et d’Histoire – Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Filologie en Geschiedenis, 2013, 91 (3), pp.1349-1364. ⟨hal-01495053⟩