A tale of two dialect regions: Sranan's 17th-century English input

This book traces the precise origin of the early English lexical and lexico-phonetic in-
fluences in Sranan, an English-based creole spoken in Suriname. Sranan contains ”fos-
silised” linguistic remnants of an early English colonial period. The book discusses
whether Sranan’s English influence(s) originated from a single dialect from the general
London area, as proposed by Norval Smith in 1987, or whether we are dealing with a
composite of dialectal features from all over England. The book introduces a novel repli-
cable methodology for linguistic reconstructions, which combines statistics (in the form
of binomial probability), English dialect geography (via use of Orton’s et. al., 1962–1971,
Survey of English Dialects, which focuses on traditional regional English dialects across
England and Wales), and 17th-century English migration history (compiled from The
Complete Book of Emigrants: 1607–1660, The Bristol Registers of Servants Sent to Foreign
Plantations, 1654–1686, Virtual Jamestown, Virginia Center for Digital History, and Colo-
nial State Papers secured from the British History Online databases, among other relevant
historical sources).