Developments in Surinamese Javanese

The coming and going of "come" and "go"; Multi-verb directional motion constructions in Surinamese Javanese

“…To explore the frequency and types of motion multi-verb constructions in Surinamese Javanese, I have made use of a corpus of audio speech recordings of four different languages: Surinamese Javanese, Indonesian Javanese, Sranantongo, and Surinamese Dutch. These recordings were collected during fieldwork sessions in 2014, 2015, and 2017, as part of my PhD research which resulted in the publication of Villerius (2018). In view of the small size of the corpora for Sranantongo and Surinamese Dutch collected in 2017, I also used data collected in Suriname in 2012 by Kofi Yakpo and Stanley Hanenberg for additional examples of certain constructions, as will be indicated in the relevant sections.…”

“…This article seeks to examine the latter type of change because few studies have been done on this topic, especially in Indonesian linguistics. The nature of the diachronic language contact in Surinamese Javanese is also relevant here, since it has had a longer and more profound contact with Sranantongo than with Dutch and consequently might have undergone more structural influence from Sranantongo (Villerius 2018).…”

“…This article is a reworking of a chapter in my dissertation, Development of Surinamese Javanese(Villerius 2018), which can be downloaded at https://www.lotpublications.nl/ development-of-surinamese-javanese. The research presented in this dissertation was funded by a grant from the Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics (LOT) through the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) in the context of the project "Language -from cognition to communication" (NWO project number 022.004.015).…”

Caribbean, South and Central America

“…In the post-slavery period when Asian labourers were brought in to replace enslaved Africans on the plantations, Asian languages came into contact with creole languages and European languages in some countries (such as Javanese in Suriname and Bhojpuri in Guyana, Trinidad, and Suriname), giving rise to localized or simplified Asian varieties (Mohan 1990;Yakpo 2017b;Villerius 2017;Rojas-Berscia & Shi 2017). However, processes of language shift towards local creole languages and ex-colonial European languages are often leading to the decline of these languages.…”

A dialect geography in Yogyakarta-Surakarta isolect in Wedi District: An examination of permutation and phonological dialectometry as an endeavor to preserve Javanese language in Indonesia

“…In addition to the number of speakers who are generally located on Java, it is also spoken by Javanese communities in Sumatra, Borneo and other islands in Indonesia ( Allen, 2013 ; Ananta et al., 2016 ; Aryanti, 2015 ; Ningsih and Harahap, 2019 ). Furthermore, there are also several communities of Javanese speakers abroad, such as in Suriname, New Caledonia, and Javanese villages in Malaysia ( Kaur, 2018 ; Laurence, 2000 ; Ramele and Yamazaki, 2013 ; Sekimoto, 1988 ; Villerius, 2017 ; Wariyati, 2018 ).…”