Language contact in the Danish West Indies : giving Jack his jacket /

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

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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...

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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.
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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.

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