Grammaticalization in Creoles: The Development of Determiners and Relative Clauses in Sranan –

“… Rather than taking the present-day language as the starting point, as is so often done, the study deals with the development of a creole language by investigating diachronic data, ranging from 1718 to 1980s. The wealth of example sentences enables the reader to get a flavor of the intriguing phenomenon of creole languages and their development.”