In and Out of Suriname - Language, Mobility and Identity

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In and Out of Suriname: Language, Mobility and Identity offers a fresh multidisciplinary approach to multilingual Surinamese society, that breaks through the notion of bounded ethnicity enshrined in historical and ethnographic literature on Suriname.

About the author

Eithne B. Carlin is Senior Lecturer at Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. She is the author of A Grammar of Trio, a Cariban Language of Suriname (Peter Lang 2004), and has edited books and articles on the Amerindian languages of the Guianas.

Isabelle Léglise is Senior Research Fellow at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Head of the SeDyL Laboratory in Paris. She has published widely on multilingualism in French Guiana, variation and change, mobility and language contact.

Bettina Migge is Associate Professor in Linguistics at University College Dublin, Ireland and associated with CNRS-SeDyL, France. She has published widely on language contact, sociolinguistic and descriptive issues pertaining to Maroons in Suriname and French Guiana.

Paul B. Tjon Sie Fat, PhD (2009), University of Amsterdam, has published several articles about language, identity, and social organization among the Chinese of Suriname.

Product details

• Assisted by: Eithne B Carlin (Editor), Eithne B. Carlin (Editor), Isabelle Léglise (Editor), Bettina Migge (Editor), Paul B Tjon Sie Fat (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.11.2014
• EAN: 9789004280113
• ISBN: 978-90-04-28011-3
• No. of pages: 306
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 241 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 590 g
• Series: Caribbean
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous