Grammatical discontinuity between Dutch and Skepi Dutch Creole
Domain:
natural language processingRecord type:
paper
Creator:
BarMik
Publisher:
Joh
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Abstract
Skepi Dutch Creole thrived during the 18th and 19th centuries as a lingua franca along the Essequibo River of what
is now the Republic of Guyana. Drawing on both old and new data, this chapter aims to describe selected features from the
Skepi noun and verb phrase and compare these features to the lexifier, Dutch, in order to assess the degree of grammatical
(dis)continuity between the lexifier and the creole within the broader context of the debate on creole genesis.