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Eithne B. Carlin & Jacques Arends (eds.), Atlas of the languages of Suriname. Leiden: KILTV Press, 2002. Pp. 346. Hb € 37.50.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2005

Michel Launey
Michel Launey
Affiliation:
Université de Paris VII/IRD, launey@cayenne.ird.fr
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This is a very beautiful and useful book. It gives a lot of information which leads to a better knowledge of a linguistic area of major interest to typologists, sociolinguists, ethnolinguists, creolists, and all kind of theoreticians, but nevertheless largely underestimated in this respect. At the same time, the authors manage to avoid excessively technical references and terminology, so that beyond the linguistic point of view, the layman as well as the specialist should be able to understand what a country like Suriname, with its complex history and population, can bring to a better understanding of human societies in general.

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BOOK REVIEW
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Language in Society , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , January 2005 , pp. 151 - 155
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© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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