It Happened at Cormantin
Locating the Origin of the Atlantic English-Based Creoles
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9311638 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Mcwhorter (0000-0003-2979-2075, University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 59-102 |
| Publication date | 1997-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0920-9034 • E-ISSN: 1569-9870 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/jpcl.12.1.03mcw |
| OpenAlex | W1997800170 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Comparative and sociohistorical facts suggest that Sranan arose among castle slaves on the Gold Coast in the 1630s. Jamaican Maroon Spirit Language is an offshoot of early Sranan, which allows the deduction that créole English had developed in Suriname by 1671. However, during the English hegemony there, 1651-1667, Suriname harbored only small plantations, where Whites worked closely with equal numbers of Blacks. Such conditions were unlikely to produce Sranan, and conditions in other English colonies were similar, disallowing them as possible sources of importation. Disproportionate lexical and structural influence from Lower Guinea Coast languages, and other evidence, suggests that the language actually took shape on the West African coast
Archaeology · Art · Ethnology · Geography · Gold coast · Hegemony · Linguistics · Maroon · New guinea · Political science · Sociology · Visual arts · African history and culture studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
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| Citation span | 2000 - 2015 (16) |
| Highly cited | No |