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

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In Language Contact in the Danish West Indies: Giving Jack His Jacket, Robin Sabino draws on fieldwork with a last speaker and research from a range of disciplines laying bare the crucial roles of community and resistance in creole genesis.

List of Tables; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Symbols; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction What's in a Name?; 0.0 Introduction; 0.1 A Very Brief History of the Term Creole; 0.2 Why the Danish West Indies is a Useful Case Study; 0.3 A Matter of Method; 0.3.1 Linguistic Sources; 0.3.2 Revising the Linguistic History of the Danish West Indies; 0.4 Retelling the Colony's Linguistic Story; Chapter One Hubristic Eurocentricism: Grammar and the Colonial Mindset; 1.0 Introduction; 1.1 Eschewing Barbarisms; 1.2 Developing Europe's Cultural Lens

1.3 Cultural Contact in the Caribbean1.4 The Intellectual Milieu and Linguistic Analysis; 1.5 Summary; Chapter Two The Colonial Response: Community Building and Language Creation; 2.0 Introduction; 2.1 Identity and Linguistic Community; 2.2 Ideological Clash in the Danish West Indies; 2.3 Building Community; 2.4 Communal Identity and Language; 2.4.1 The Internal Differentiation of Negerhollands; 2.5 Summary; Chapter Three A History and Demography of the Danish West Indies; 3.0 Introduction; 3.1 Colonization and the Struggle for Survival

3.2 Population Stability and the Emergence of Negerhollands3.3 What Languages Did the Creators of Negerhollands Speak?; 3.4 Prosperity and the Emergence of Hoch Kreol; 3.5 Territorial Expansion; 3.6 The Free Afro-Caribbean Population; 3.7 The Shift to English and Virgin Islands English Creole; 3.8 Summary; Chapter Four Virgin Islands Dutch Creole: Documentation and Interpretation; 4.0 Introduction; 4.1 Evangelical Activity and Virgin Island Dutch Creole; 4.2 Language and the Urban Afro-Caribbean Community; 4.3 Scholarly Activity and Virgin Island Dutch Creole

4.4 Language Death: A Red Herring4.5 Abandoning Previous Assumptions; 4.6 Summary; Chapter Five Language Learning and Situational Constraints; 5.0 Introduction; 5.1 Age of Arrival; 5.2 Trauma and Anxiety; 5.3 Aptitude and Multilingualism; 5.4 Intentionality and Investment; 5.5 Sex; 5.6 Summary; Chapter Six Deploying Linguistic Resources; 6.0 Introduction; 6.1 Input; 6.1.1 Input Negotiation; 6.1.2 Input Processing; 6.2 Output; 6.3 Language Emergence in the Afro-Caribbean Community; 6.4 Heritage Language Influence; 6.5 Summary; Chapter Seven Interlingual Influence: Phonology; 7.0 Introduction

7.1 Segmental Inventories7.1.1 Negerhollands Vowels; 7.1.2 Negerhollands Consonants; 7.2 Negerhollands Syllable Structure; 7.2.1 Positive Transfer; 7.2.2 Segmental Reanalysis; 7.2.3 The Addition of Non-Etymological Vowels; 7.2.4 The Elimination of Etymological Consonants; 7.2.5 Metathesis; 7.2.6 Homo-Organic Nasal-Stop Sequences; 7.3 Ordering Developmental Patterns; 7.4 Summary; Chapter Eight Interlingual Influence: Plural Marking; 8.0 Introduction; 8.1 Plural Marking in Negerhollands; 8.1.1 Negerhollands Plural Forms; 8.1.2 Semantic and Pragmatic Conditioning

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