Sranan and the other creoles of Suriname are remarkable for their use of postpositions in the expression of spatial relationships, which distinguishes them from other creoles, both African and American, with an English lexical base (Yakpo, 2015). The lexicon of these postpositions derives, for the most part, from names of body parts in the English language - which, specifically, does not draw on these for prepositions itself. ${ }^{5}$  
The Sranan locative postpositions ini ('in') and ondro ('under') are lexical calques of English and Dutch prepositions. The words tapu ('on'), fesi ('opposite'), baka ('behind') and na are general locatives from Igbo associated with object nouns: na doro, 'outside' + 'door'.  
Comparing two statements in Sranan with a statement in Fon is enough to demonstrate that Sranan draws its postpositional grammatical construction of the spatial relationship from the Gbe languages (Ewe, Aja and Fon):  
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[^0]:    5 On the topic of pre- and postpositions, see Heine, 1997 and Ameka, 2003; on the fertility of their cognitive approach, see Bardury, 2015 and Bernabé, 2015.  
a buku de na a tafra ondro.
definite article-book-to be-[locative+definite article sg+table+under]: 'The book is under the table'
sinsi a komm na bosso inni.
since-3sg.-to come-[locative+ house+ in]: 'since he entered the house'
$\grave{n}$ sò àkwè sín gbàvi ò mè.
1 sg -to take-money / (come) since / box-definite article-[in]. 'I took the money in the box'
Drawing from this, Yakpo proposes two theories, one descriptive and the other explanatory:  
The affinities of Sranan with these African language(s)/families can be traced in the semantics of individual locative elements. The strong parallels in the grammar of spatial relations between Sranan and Gbe in particular provide further support for the existence of a Transatlantic Sprachbund that unites the Surinamese creoles and the Gbe languages with respect to a substantial number of isoglosses (Yakpo, 2015).