Margot van den Berg

Publications

van den Berg, M.C. and E. ResCue (2020) 'Oliebollen in Ghana' In: Stemmen van Afrika. [Stemmen van Afrika]
van den Berg, M., Amuzu, E. K., Essizewa, K., Yevudey, E., & Tagba, K. (2017). 'Crosslinguistic effects in adjectivization strategies in Suriname, Ghana and Togo'. In Cecelia Cutler, Zvjezdana Vrzic and Philipp Angermeyer (Eds.) Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas, CLL 53, 343-362. doi: 10.1075/cll.53.15ber [download]
Arends, J. (2017) Language and Slavery. A social and linguistic history of the Suriname creoles. CLL 52. Edited by Crit Cremers. In cooperation with Norval Smith, Eithne B. Carlin, S. de Haan, Adrienne Bruyn and Margot van den Berg. John Benjamins Publishing Company. doi: 10.1075/cll.52
van den Berg, M.C., Muysken, P. C. & van Sluijs, R. (2016). Exploring genealogical blends: The Surinamese Creole cluster and the Virgin Island Dutch Creole cluster. Lingua, 178, (pp. 84-103), doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2015.12.004 [download]
Ponte, M., Blanker, J.C.M., Groenewoud, M. and M. C. van den Berg (2015) 'Mi mus' singi - Een wellustig liedje uit Suriname'. [Voetnoot.org]
van den Berg, M.C., Muysken, P.C. & Smith, N.S.H. (2015). Introduction: Creole studies and Contact Linguistics. In P.C. Muysken, N.S.H. Smith & R. Borges (Eds.), Surviving the Middle Passage - The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund (pp. 1-14). Mouton de Gruyter.
van den Berg, M.C. (2015). Morphology, cross-linguistic effects and creole formation. In P.C. Muysken, N.S.H. Smith & R. Borges (Eds.), Surviving the Middle Passage - The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund (pp. 207 - 239). Mouton de Gruyter.[download]
van Andel, T., van 't Klooster, C. I. E. A., Quiroz, D., Towns, A.M., Ruysschaert, S. & van den Berg, M.C. (16-12-2014). Local plant names reveal that enslaved Africans recognized substantial parts of the New World flora. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111 (50), (pp. E5346 - E5353).[download]
Yakpo, K., van den Berg, M.C. & Borges, R. (2014). 'On the linguistic consequences of language contact in Suriname: The case of convergence'. In E.B. Carlin, I. Leglise, B. Migge & P.B. Tjon Sie Fat (Eds.), In and out of Suriname - Language, mobility and identity (pp. 164-195).Brill.[link]
van den Berg, M. C. (2013) 'Ningretongo and Bakratongo: Race/ethnicity and language variation in 18th century Suriname'. In Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire = Belgisch tijdschrift voor filologie en geschiedenis. 01/2013; 91(3):735-762.[download]
van den Berg, M. C. & Smith, N.S.H. (2013) 'Early Sranan'. In Michaelis, S., Maurer, Ph., Haspelmath, M. & Huber, M. (eds.) The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures. Oxford University Press, 3-14 [download]
van den Berg, M. C. & Bruyn, A. (2013) 'Early Sranan structure dataset'. In: Michaelis, Susanne Maria & Maurer, Philippe & Haspelmath, Martin & Huber, Magnus (eds.) Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. [APiCS Online]
van den Berg, M. C. (2013) 'Talen in contact in Suriname en Nederland: Eenheid in verscheidenheid?' In Oso. Tijdschrift voor Surinamistiek en het Caribisch Gebied 2013 (1): 38-66
van den Berg, M. C. & M. van Overveld (2013) 'Donatie Jacques Arends Collectie aan de Anton de Kom Universiteit' in Oso. Tijdschrift voor Surinamistiek en het Caribisch Gebied 2013 (1): 107-109
van den Berg, M. C. (2013) 'Skepi-Nederlands: is dit geen moye taal?' In Stemmen van Afrika. [link]
Essegbey, J., van den Berg, M. C., van de Vate, M. (2013) 'Possibility and necessity modals in Gbe and Surinamese Creoles' In Lingua. [download]
van den Berg, M. C., Aboh, E. O. (2013) 'Done already? A comparison of completive markers in the Gbe languages and Sranantongo. In Lingua. [download]
van den Berg, M. C. (2012) 'Multilingual language use and creole formation' Ghana Journal of Linguistics 1.2: 23-42 [download]
Muysken, P. C. & van den Berg, M. C. (2011) Creoles. Oxford Bibliographies Online. [http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com]
Aboh, E., Bruyn, A., Essegbey, J., Kouwenberg, S., Meade, R.R., Muysken, P.C., van den Berg, M.C. & Veenstra, T. (2011). 'A tribute to Norval Smith'. In Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 26(3), 235-246 [download]
van den Berg, M. C. & R. Selbach (2009) 'One more cup of coffee: On gradual creolization'. In Selbach, R., H. Cardoso and M. C. van den Berg (eds.) (2009) Gradual Creolization. Studies celebrating Jacques Arends. CLL34. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 3-13
Selbach, R., Cardoso H. & van den Berg, M. C. (eds.) (2009) Gradual Creolization. Studies celebrating Jacques Arends. CLL34. Amsterdam: John Benjamins
Migge, B. & van den Berg, M. C. (2009) 'Creole learner varieties in the past and in the present: implications for creole development'. Language, Interaction and Acquisition, 1 (1):253-282 [download]
van den Berg, M.C. (2009) 'Creoles at birth? The role of nativization in creole formation'. NVAS Nieuwsbrief November 2009 [link]
van den Berg, M. C. (2009) 'Intensified! On reflexive expressions in Early Sranan' Revue Romaine Linguistique, LIV, 3-4, p. 331-347, Bucuresti [download]
van den Berg, M. C. & Bruyn, A. (2008) 'The Surinamese Creoles in the Surinamese Creole Archive (SUCA)'. In: van Koppen, Marjo & Bert Botma (Eds.). Linguistics in the Netherlands 2008. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 25-36 [download]
van den Berg, M. C. & Arends, J. (2004) 'Court records as a source of authentic early Sranan' In: Armin Schwegler & Genevieve Escure (eds.), Creoles, Contact, and Language Change: Linguistics and Social Implications. (Creole Language Library Series vol. 27) Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 21-34
van den Berg, M. C. & Arends, J. (2004) 'The Saramaka Peace Treaty in Sranan: An edition of the 1762 text (including a copy of the original manuscript)' In: Creolica. Revue du Groupe Europeen de Recherches en Langues Creoles. http://www.creolica.net
van den Berg, M. C. (2003) 'Early 18th century Sranan '-man'' In: Phonology and Morphology of Creole Languages, Ingo Plag (ed.) Tubingen: Niemeyer, 231-251
van den Berg, M. C. (2001) '"Mingo, jou no man" Oud-Sranan in verhoren en verslagen van rechtszaken' In: OSO Tijdschrift voor Surinaamse Taalkunde, Letterkunde, Cultuur en Geschiedenis., 20 (2): 241-253 [download]

Dissertation

van den Berg, M. C. (2007) 'A grammar of Early Sranan' Manta: Zetten [PhD Dissertation, University of Amsterdam][download]

Bookreviews

van den Berg, M.C. & van Sluijs, R. (2015). Book Review: Language Contact in the Danish West Indies: Giving Jack his Jacket, written by Robin Sabino. NWIG New West Indian Guide, 89 (1-2), (p. 222 – 224).
van den Berg, M. C. (2009) 'Boekrecensie Structure and Variation in Language Contact'. In OSO. Tijdschrift voor de Surinamistiek en het Caribisch gebied. 28 (2).
van den Berg, M. C. (2005) 'Bettina Migge. Creole Formation as Language Contact: The Case of the Suriname Creoles'. In: English World-Wide 26:1, p. 100-104
van den Berg, M. C. (2003) 'Recensie van Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in the Twenty-First Century door Glen Gilbert' In: OSO Tijdschrift voor Surinaamse Taalkunde, Letterkunde, Cultuur en Geschiedenis, 22 (1), p. 143-147
van den Berg, M. C. (2002) 'Review of The Ecology of Language Evolution by Salikoko Mufwene' In: LinguistList 13-1100 http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-1100.html
van den Berg, M. C. (2002) 'Recensie van Substrate Influence in the formation of the Surinamese Plantation Creole door Bettina Migge' In: OSO Tijdschrift voor Surinaamse Taalkunde, Letterkunde, Cultuur en Geschiedenis, 21 (2): 373-375
van den Berg, M. C. (2001) 'Recensie van Spreading the word door Magnus Huber en Mikael Parkvall' In: OSO Tijdschrift voor Surinaamse Taalkunde, Letterkunde, Cultuur en Geschiedenis, 20 (2): 340-342

Presentations

van den Berg, M. C. (2019) 'Verborgen geschiedenissen in taal: Sranantongo' Lezing voor de Werkgroep Caribische en Aziatische Cultuur Nijmegen (WCACN) in Nijmegen, 9 November 2019
van den Berg, M. C. and R. Borges (2019) 'Automating Corpus Construction for Documentation of Regional Varieties and Multilingual Praxis: Surinamese Dutch in the Parliament'. Paper presented at the Workshop on language documentation: multilingual settings and technological advances, Uppsala University, 24–25 October 2019
van den Berg, M. C. and R. Borges (2019) 'Language Contact in parliamentary speech in Suriname'. Paper presented at the 19th Annual Conference of the Association of Portuguese and Spanish-Lexified Creoles & the Summer Conference of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics at the university of Lisbon, June 17-19, 2019
van den Berg, M. C. (2019) 'Why ecologies matter: Restructuring and innovation in the spatial language of creoles' Paper presented at the Conversation on Uniformitarianism in Genetic Creolistics convened by Salikoko S. Mufwene in Chicago from April 4 to 6, 2019 (invited)
van den Berg, M. C., Oosting, T. (2017) 'Zitten is het nieuwe zijn. Variatie en verandering in het gebruik van positiewerkwoorden in het Nederlands.' Lezing op de TiN-dag te Utrecht, 4 februari 2017
van den Berg, M. C., Haarnack, C. (2017) 'Between Paramaribo and Amsterdam: The letter of Jacqueline Ricket' ACLC Workshop launching Jacques Arends' posthumously published book "Language and Slavery", 22 september 2017 (invited)
Van Andel, T., van den Berg, M.C., Alcantra Rodrigues (2016) 'What's in a name? West-African retentions and innovation in plant names from Curacao and Suriname'. 9th Linguistics Association of Ghana Annual Conference (LAG 2016), Tuesday July 26th - Thursday July 28th, 2016 at the Ghana Institute of Linguistics Literacy and Bible Translation (GILLBT), Tamale
Van den Berg, M.C., Blanker, J.C.M. (2015) 'Mi mus' singi. A newly rediscovered 18th century sexy song in Sranan from Suriname' Paper presented at meeting of the international network on The Structure, Emergence and Evolution of Pidgin and Creole Languages (SEEPiCLa) on December 14th - 15th, Amsterdam (invited)
Nyst, V., van den Berg, M.C., Angoua, J.-J. (2015) 'Creole languages and microcommunity sign languages: Sisters under the skin?' Paper presented at the Tenth Creolistics Workshop, Aarhus, Denmark, April 8 - 10
van den Berg, M. C., Blanker, J. C. M (2014) 'Het ontstaan van het Sranantongo'. Publiekslezing op uitnodiging van Seniorenclub Rutu, Alkmaar, November 26, 2014
van den Berg, M. C., Amuzu, E., Essizewa, K., Yevudey, E. (2014) 'Temporal relations and outcomes of language contact in West Africa, Suriname and the Netherlands: Implications for creole formation'. Paper presented at the 7th Linguistics Association of Ghana Annual Conference, Accra, July 29 - 31, 2014
van den Berg, M. C., Nyst, V., Angoua, J.-J. (2014) 'Het Frans van West-Afrika'. Paper presented at the SIGV Workshop Juridisch tolken en vertalen vanuit het niet-standaard Frans, Utrecht, June 14, 2014
van den Berg, M. C., Aalberse, S., Starink-Martha, G. (2013) 'Transnational Practices of Migrants from the Caribbean, West Africa and China in the Netherlands'. Paper presented at Europe and its Worlds, Nijmegen, October 16 - 18, 2013
van den Berg, M. C. (2013) 'A comparison of different types of outcomes of language contact: Suriname, West Africa and the Netherlands'. Paper presented at Multilingualism: The Key Debates, Leeuwarden, September 14 - 15, 2013
Amuzu, E., van den Berg, M. C., Essizewa, K., Yevudey, E. (2013) 'Equivalence and codeswitching: you can’t have one without the other?'. Paper presented at the 6th Linguistics Association of Ghana Annual Conference, Cape Coast, July 29 - 31, 2013
van den Berg, M. C., S. Yankson, E. Yevudey (2013) 'Language contact and emotion: The expression of bodily states in the Surinamese Creoles, the Akan and the Gbe languages of Ghana'. Paper presented at the 6th Linguistics Association of Ghana Annual Conference, Cape Coast, July 29 - 31, 2013
van den Berg, M. C. (2013) 'Property concept words in multilingual discourse in Ghana and Togo'. Paper presented at the workshop 'Codeswitching, variation and change in NPs', Campus Campus CNRS de Villejuif, Paris, February 15, 2013 [invited, fully paid]
van den Berg, M. C. (2013) 'Multilingual language use and crosslinguistic effects in Suriname, West Africa and the Netherlands' Paper presented at the workshop ‘Structural change in Heritage Languages’ NH Conference Centre Leeuwenhorst, Noordwijkerhout, January 23-25, 2013
van den Berg, M. C., S. Yankson, E. Yevudey (2013) 'Language contact and emotion: The expression of bodily states in the Surinamese Creoles, the Akan and the Gbe languages of Ghana' Paper presented at the TiN-dag, Utrecht, February 9, 2013
van den Berg, M. C., (2012) 'Bakratongo and Ningretongo varieties of Early Sranan in the Suriname Creole Archive' Paper presented at the workshop Towards a social typology of language contact and genesis in the (post-) colonial context using the example of overseas Dutch-based varieties, VUB Bruxelles, November 23 -24, 2012
van den Berg, M. C. (2012) 'Talen in contact in Suriname en Nederland'. Paper presented at the IBS colloquium Taal Tori: Kultura den Boka, Tropentheater Amsterdam, November 17, 2012
van den Berg, M. C., Amuzu, E.K., Essizewa, K., Yevudey, E., K., Tagba, K. (2012) 'A comparison of cross-linguistic effects in urban areas in Ghana and Togo' Paper presented at the 5th conference of the Linguistics Association of Ghana, University of Education, Winneba (UEW), July 29-August 1, 2012
van den Berg, M. C., Amuzu, E.K., Yevudey, E. Essizewa, K., Tagba, K. (2012) 'Adjectivization strategies and temporal relations: Comparison of bilingual discourse in West Africa, Surinam, and the Netherlands' Paper presented at the BAAL Language in Africa SIG annual meeting, SOAS, London, May 5th 2012
van den Berg, M. C. (2012) 'Generational change and creole formation' Paper presented at 34th meeting of DGfS, Friday Opening Lecture of AG 1 Age and Language Change, Frankfurt, 7-9 March 2012
van den Berg, M. C. Amuzu, E.K., Yevudey, E. Essizewa, K., Tagba, K. (2011) 'Multilingual language use and adjectivization strategies in the Surinamese Creoles and the Gbe languages of West Africa' Paper presented at the Morfologiedagen/Morphology days 2011, Nijmegen, 22-23 December 2011
van den Berg, M. C. (2011) 'Property items, codeswitching and creole formation', Paper presented at the meeting of the Language in Space and Time work group, RU Nijmegen, 15 November 2011
van den Berg, M. C., Amuzu, E.K., Yevudey, E. (2011) 'On toys, Early Sranan and contemporary bilingual discourse in West Africa: A comparison of adjectivization strategies' Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, Accra, Ghana, 2-6 August, 2011
van den Berg, M. C., Essizewa, K., Tagba, K. (2011) 'Temporal relations in bilingual discourse in West Africa, Suriname and the Netherlands: Implications for creole formation' Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, Accra, Ghana, 2-6 August, 2011
van den Berg, M. C., van Sluijs, R. & Spatgens T. (2010) 'Over tijdmachines en TMA in Sranantongo en Negerhollands. Aanzetten tot een diachrone vergelijking', TiN-dag 6 februari 2010, Utrecht
van den Berg, M. C., & Aboh, E. O. 'Done already? The expression of completion and anteriority in the Gbe languages, Sranan and Negerhollands'. Paper presented at the Workshop on Surinamese Creoles: A comparative syntactic approach to the historical development of the creole languages of Suriname. Hosted by the Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University. Organizers: Donald Winford (Ohio State University); Bettina Migge (University College, Dublin); James Essegbey (University of Florida), 29 mei 2010. Invited, fully paid.
Essegbey, J., van den Berg, M. C., van de Vate, M. (University of Tromso), 'Possibility and necessity modals in Gbe, Sranan and Saamaka (and Negerhollands)'. Paper presented at the Workshop on Surinamese Creoles: A comparative syntactic approach to the historical development of the creole languages of Suriname. Hosted by the Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University. Organizers: Donald Winford (Ohio State University); Bettina Migge (University College, Dublin); James Essegbey (University of Florida), 29 mei 2010. Invited, fully paid.
van den Berg, M. C., 'Pineapples and oranges? Language mixture in the past and the present'. Paper presented at the 2nd Linguistics Association of Ghana, University of Ghana (Legon), 11-13 August, 2010
van den Berg, M. C., 'Language mixture in the present and the past', Kreyol seminar, Groesbeek, 25-28 August, 2010
van den Berg, M. C., Yakpo, K., Borges, B. 'Language and community in Suriname and the Surinamese diaspora in The Netherlands'. CNRS workshop 'Language and Mobilities in and out of Suriname', Paris, 7-8 oktober, 2010. [INVITED]
Muysken, P.C., van den Berg, M. C., Yakpo, K., Smith, N., 'Feature distribution in the Benin-Surinam Transatlantic Sprachbund', 2nd APiCS conference, MPI Leipzig, 11-14 November, 2010
van den Berg, M. C (2008) 'Borrowing and imposition in Early Sranan. A reply to Don Winford'. Paper presented at the Transmission and Diffusion conference, January 17-19, 2008 in Nijmegen [INVITED]
van den Berg, M. C & Bruyn, A. (2008) 'The Suriname Creole Archive (SUCA): Objectives, contents and background'. Paper presented at Taalkunde in Nederland (TiN-dag), February 2, 2008 in Utrecht
Migge, B. & van den Berg, M. C (2007) 'Bas(r)aa Neng(r)e': Surinamese foreigner talk past and present'. Paper presented at the Joint Summer Meeting of the SPCL and ACBLPE, June 18-20, 2007 in Amsterdam
van den Berg, M. C (2006) 'Variation in the sources of Early Sranan: what is it evidence of?' Paper presented as part of the panel on Creoles and Variation of the NWAV 35 (New Ways of Analyzing Variation) Conference, November 9-12, 2006 in Columbus, OH
van den Berg, M. C (2006) 'SUCA: The Suriname Creole Archive' Paper presented at the meeting of the research group Language in Time and Space, October 6, 2006, Radboud University of Nijmegen
van den Berg, M. C presented at Language Creation Day, September 22, 2006, University of Amsterdam
van den Berg, M. C (2006) 'Self-expression in Suriname: Comparing the reflexive pronoun and other uses of SELF forms in early Sranan and its lexifiers' Paper will be presented at the Seventh Creolistics Workshop 'Simplicity and complexity in pidgins and creoles', April 6-8, 2006, University of Giessen, Germany
van den Berg, M. C & Arends, J. (2004) 'Logophoricity in Saramaccan and Sranan (and Gbe)' Paper presented at the International Joint Conference of the SCL-SPCL-ACBLPE on Caribbean and Creole Languages, August 2004, 11-15, Willemstad, Curacao, The Netherlands Antilles
van den Berg, M. C & Arends, J. (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
van den Berg, M. C (2003) 'Competition and selection in the pronominal system of early Sranan' Paper presented at the OSU Changelings-meeting, November 4, 2003 in Columbus (OH), USA [INVITED]
van den Berg, M. C (2003) 'Competition and selection in the development of Sranan' Paper presented at the meeting of dr. Lauren McIntyre's lab (Computational Genomics, Purdue University), October 29, 2003 in West-Lafayette (IN), USA [INVITED]
van den Berg, M. C (2003) 'Reflexivisation in early Sranan' Paper presented at the Wednesday Linguistics Talks at Purdue University, October 24, 2003 in West-Lafayette (IN), USA [INVITED]
van den Berg, M. C & Aboh, E. (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
van den Berg, M. C & Aboh, E. (2001) 'Compounding and derivation in two morphologically "poor" languages' Paper presented at the Morfologiedagen, 13-14 December 2001 in Utrecht, The Netherlands
van den Berg, M. C (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 Siegen, Germany
van den Berg, M. C (2001) 'De reconstructie van het 18e eeuwse Sranantongo' Paper presented at the ACLC Junioren-Overleg, 10 December 2001 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
van den Berg, M. C & Arends, J. (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 Washington, D.C.

Posters

van den Berg, M. C. (2009) 'The Suriname Creole Archive'. Poster gepresenteerd op de CIE Suriname Erfgoed dag, Paramaribo, 22 september 2009
van den Berg, M. C., Muysken, P. C. (2008) 'Guyana Crossings: Multiple comparative perspectives on the dynamics of language and culture change' Poster presented at the ESF HERA Joint Research Programme Matchmaking Event, Maison de l'Amerique Latine, Paris, April 19, 2008
van den Berg, M. C. (2008) 'The Suriname Creole Archive'. Poster gepresenteerd op de CIE bijeenkomst "Gedeeld Cultureel Erfgoed Suriname - Nederland", Paramaribo, 14 November 2008
van den Berg, M. C (2007) 'The Suriname Creole Archive'. Poster presentation at the CIE Erfgoeddag Suriname, September 27, 2007 in The Hague