Language contact in the Danish West Indies : giving Jack his jacket / / by Robin Sabino.
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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Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture
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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.