Gbe and other West African sources of Suriname creole semantic structuresP: Implications for creole genesis

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 57-72

  Huttar, George L ^a   Essegbey, James ^a   Ameka, Felix K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Areal linguistics; Creole genesis; Eastern Maroon creole; Gbe; Kwa; Semantic structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 55549111263     PISSN: 09209034     EISSN: 15699870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/jpcl.22.1.05hut     Document Type: Article

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