Substrate influence in creole formation: The origin of give-type serial verb constructions in the Surinamese Plantation Creole

Migge, Bettina

doi:10.1075/jpcl.13.2.02mig

Article published In: Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
Vol. 13:2 (1998) ► pp.215–266

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Substrate influence in creole formation

The origin of give-type serial verb constructions in the Surinamese Plantation Creole

Bettina Migge

Published online: 1 January 1998

https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.13.2.02mig

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