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Linguistic Archaeology, Kinship Terms, and Language Contact in Suriname
- Anthropological Linguistics
- University of Nebraska Press
- Volume 55, Number 1, Spring 2013
- pp. 1-35
- 10.1353/anl.2013.0001
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As a relatively young linguistic area, Suriname offers great possibilities for understanding the processes that produce complex outcomes of language contact. In this article, directionality, mechanisms, and relative chronology of contact-induced changes are reconstructed by examining synchronic variation and diachronic changes in the semantics of kinship terminology for a sample of Surinamese languages.