Margot van den Berg

List of John Benjamins publications in which Margot van den Berg is involved.

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Language and Slavery: A social and linguistic history of the Suriname creoles

Jacques Arends

This posthumous work by Jacques Arends offers new insights into the emergence of the creole languages of Suriname including Sranantongo or Suriname Plantation Creole, Ndyuka, and Saramaccan, and the sociohistorical context in which they developed. Drawing on a wealth of sources including little… read more

[Creole Language Library, 52] 2017. xxix, 463 pp. | open access

Gradual Creolization: Studies celebrating Jacques Arends

Edited by Rachel Selbach, Hugo C. Cardoso and Margot van den Berg

Is creolization an abrupt or a gradual process? In this volume leading scholars provide both comparative and case studies that outline their working definitions and their views on the particular or average time depth, or key processes necessary for contact language formation, providing a… read more

[Creole Language Library, 34] 2009. x, 392 pp.

Borges, Robert and Margot van den Berg 2023 Chapter 10. Language variation in parliamentary speech in Suriname Exploring Language and Society with Big Data: Parliamentary discourse across time and space, Korhonen, Minna, Haidee Kotze and Jukka Tyrkkö (eds.), pp. 277–307 | Chapter

Surinamese Dutch is widely considered to be distinct from Netherlandic Dutch varieties, but grammatical differences remain understudied. The primary aim of this chapter is to explore some of the claims made in the literature about how the grammar of Surinamese Dutch differs from Netherlandic… read more

Berg, Margot van den, Evershed Kwasi Amuzu, Komlan Essizewa, Elvis Yevudey and Kamaïloudini Tagba 2017 Crosslinguistic effects in adjectivization strategies in Suriname, Ghana and Togo Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas: In honor of John V. Singler, Cutler, Cecelia, Zvjezdana Vrzić and Philipp Angermeyer (eds.), pp. 343–362 | Chapter

Our paper seeks to honor John Singler’s longstanding contribution to the field of Pidgin and Creole studies by doing a comparison of outcomes of language contact under different social circumstances in the past and the present, in order to contribute to a better understanding of the interaction… read more

Aboh, Enoch O., Adrienne Bruyn, James Essegbey, Silvia Kouwenberg, Rocky R. Meade, Pieter Muysken, Margot van den Berg and Tonjes Veenstra 2011 A Tribute to Norval Smith Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 26:2, pp. 235–246 | Article

Berg, Margot van den and Rachel Selbach 2009 One more cup of coffee: On Gradual Creolization Gradual Creolization: Studies celebrating Jacques Arends, Selbach, Rachel, Hugo C. Cardoso and Margot van den Berg (eds.), pp. 3–12 | Article

Berg, Margot van den and Adrienne Bruyn 2008 The Early Surinamese Creoles in the Suriname Creole Archive (SUCA) Linguistics in the Netherlands 2008, Koppen, Marjo van and Bert Botma (eds.), pp. 25–36 | Article

Berg, Margot van den 2005 Review of Migge (2003): Creole Formation as Language Contact: The Case of the Suriname Creoles English World-Wide 26:1, pp. 100–104 | Review article

Berg, Margot van den and Jacques Arends 2004 2. Court records as a source of authentic early Sranan Creoles, Contact, and Language Change: Linguistic and social implications, Escure, Geneviève and Armin Schwegler (eds.), pp. 21–34 | Chapter