Doctoral Candidate Theoretical Linguistics Universiteit van Amsterdam Spuistraat 210, k. 502 Tel. +31- (0)20-525-3877 Email: M.C.vandenBerg@uva.nl |
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Suriname creole languages
and cultures, language formation
languages and cultures in contact, language
change, language evolution
semantics-syntax interface, morphology
Current research: ‘The reconstruction of
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The
aim of this Ph.D.-project is to write a grammar of (early) Sranan, a Surinamese
creole language, based upon the study of 18th century Sranan texts,
such Schumann (1783), Van Dyk (c.1765), Nepveu (1770), judicial material,
Herlein (1718) and Weygandt (1798). The variation in orthography and grammar
exhibited in these sources is of great advantage for the study of the
phonology, syntax and semantics of early Sranan. It may be expected that some
variation in these sources corresponds to real variation in the language, as it
is known that variation existed between the Sranan used by Blacks (Nengretongo)
and Whites (Bakratongo), and between the Sranan used in
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Early Sranan
in Court Records back
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For my master’s thesis I researched
the archives of the Nationaal Archief (
Teaching Assistant (Courses) back
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Inleiding
taalwetenschap (‘introduction to linguistics’, assisting Dik Bakker
in Fall 2002)
Taalverandering
& taalcontact (‘language change and language contact’,
assisting Jacques Arends in Fall 2002)
Minority
Languages in
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Publications: back to top
Articles (accepted/published):
Margot van den Berg & Jacques Arends (to appear) ‘Court
records as a source of authentic early Sranan' In: Armin Schwegler &
Genevieve Escure (eds.), Creoles,
Contact, and Language Change: Linguistics and Social Implications. Amsterdam/Philadelphia:
John Benjamins (Creole Language Library Series)
Margot van den Berg
(2003) ‘Early 18th century Sranan ‘–man’’
In: Phonology and Morphology of Creole Languages, Ingo Plag (ed.)
Tόbingen: Niemeyer, p. 231 - 251
Margot van den Berg (2001) ' "Mingo, joω no man" Oud-Sranan in
verhoren en verslagen van rechtszaken' In: OSO Tijdschrift voor Surinaamse
Taalkunde, Letterkunde, Cultuur en Geschiedenis, 20 (2): 241 - 253
Margot van den Berg (2000) "Mi no sal tron tongo" Early
Sranan in court records, 1667 - 1767 (unpublished master's thesis,
Papers
Margot van den Berg
& Jacques Arends (2004) ‘A complement to complementation in early
Sranan and Saramaccan: logophoricity’ Paper presented at the meeting of
the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, 8-9 January 2004 in Boston (MA),
USA [hand-out]
Margot van den Berg (2003) ‘Competition and selection in the pronominal system
of early Sranan’ Paper presented at the OSU Changelings-meeting, November 4, 2003 in Columbus (OH),
Margot van den Berg (2003) ‘Competition and selection in the development of
Sranan’ Paper presented at the meeting of dr. Lauren McIntyre’s lab (Computational Genomics,
Margot van den Berg
(2003) ‘Reflexivisation in early Sranan’ Paper presented at the
Wednesday Linguistics Talks at
Enoch Aboh and Margot van den Berg (2002) ‘The structure of word
formation in 18th century Sranan, Gungbe and ‘Old
Gbe’’ Paper presented at the Biennal Conference of the Society for
Carribean Linguistics, 14-17 August 2002 in St. Augustine, Trinidad &
Tobago
Enoch Aboh and Margot van den Berg (2001) ‘Compounding and
derivation in two morphologically "poor" languages’ Paper
presented at the Morfologiedagen, 13-14 December 2001 in Utrecht, The
Netherlands
Margot van den Berg (2001) ‘Two morphological patterns in early
18th century Sranan’ Paper presented at the International Workshop on the
Phonology and Morphology of Creole Languages, 22-24 August 2001 in
Margot van den Berg (2001) ‘De reconstructie van het 18e
eeuwse Sranantongo’ Paper presented at the ACLC Junioren-Overleg, 10
December 2001 in
Margot van den Berg & Jacques Arends (2001) ‘Court records as
a source of authentic early Sranan’ Paper presented at the meeting of the
Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, 5-6 January 2001 in
Book reviews
Margot van den Berg (2003) ‘Review of Glen Gilbert (ed.), 2002, Pidgin and Creole
Linguistics in the Twenty-First Century’ In: OSO
Tijdschrift voor Surinaamse Taalkunde, Letterkunde, Cultuur en Geschiedenis,
22 (1)
Margot van den Berg (2002) ‘Review of The Ecology of Language
Evolution (Mufwene, 2001)’ In: LinguistList 13-1100 http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-1100.html
Margot van den Berg (2002) ‘Review of Substrate Influence in
the formation of the Surinamese
Margot van den Berg (2001) ‘Review of Spreading the word (Huber
& Parkvall (eds.), 1999)’ In: OSO Tijdschrift voor Surinaamse
Taalkunde, Letterkunde, Cultuur en Geschiedenis, 20 (2): 340 – 342
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C.V. back to top
2000
– present |
PhD-project ‘The
reconstruction of 18th century Sranan’ |
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2003
– 2004 |
Visiting Scholar |
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1997 – 2000 1994 – 2000 |
Assistant IFWG
Wetenschap & Samenleving Studies General
Linguistics |
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1993
– 1995 |
Propedeuse Dutch
Language and Literature |
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