Language contact in the Danish West Indies : giving Jack his jacket / / by Robin Sabino.

• Author: Sabino, Robin.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (359 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Language Contact in the Danish West Indies: Giving Jack His Jacket lays bare crucial roles played by community and resistance in the refashioning of heritage languages. Robin Sabino draws on her community relationships, her fieldwork with a last speaker, and research from a range of disciplines, to advance a revisionist history that elucidates the African linguistic resources used to create community in a land those who were transhipped did not choose and from which they could not return. In parallel fashion, the narrative locates the partial appropriation of creole features by the colony’s Euro-Caribbean community in the emergence of local identity. It also traces the replacement of Dutch and Virgin Islands Dutch Creole with their English counterparts. Includes more than 300 unique sound records of the last native speaker.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- 0 Introduction What’s in a Name? -- 1 Hubristic Eurocentricism: Grammar and the Colonial Mindset -- 2 The Colonial Response: Community Building and Language Creation -- 3 A History and Demography of the Danish West Indies -- 4 Virgin Islands Dutch Creole: Documentation and Interpretation -- 5 Language Learning and Situational Constraints -- 6 Deploying Linguistic Resources -- 7 Interlingual Influence: Phonology -- 8 Interlingual Influence: Plural Marking -- 9 Interlingual Influence: Verb Serialization -- 10 Conclusion -- Appendix One Some Notes on the Creole Language of the Danish West Indian Islands -- Appendix Two The Danish West Indian Creole Language -- Appendix Three Glossary of Variable Virgin Islands Dutch Creole Forms -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index.