28.3588, Books: Variation and change in Virgin Islands Dutch Creole: Sluijs

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Subject: 28.3588, Books: Variation and change in Virgin Islands Dutch Creole: Sluijs

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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 20:27:07
From: Jolanda Rozendaal [gw.uilots.lot at uu.nl]
Subject: Variation and change in Virgin Islands Dutch Creole: Sluijs

Title: Variation and change in Virgin Islands Dutch Creole 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Book URL: http://www.lotpublications.nl/variation-and-change-in-virgin-islands-dutch-creole 

Author: Robbert van Sluijs

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460932359 Pages:  Price: ----  

Abstract:

Virgin Islands Dutch Creole is the now extinct language that developed as a
result of European exploitation of enslaved Africans in the highly
multilingual Danish West Indies (US Virgin Islands) in the Caribbean. Despite
being the creole language with the most extensive eighteenth century
documentation, there are still not many in-depth linguistic studies, when
compared to other creoles.

One reason for this is that the available Dutch Creole data cannot always be
easily compared among each other. The language as spoken by those of African
descent has only been directly documented in the late nineteenth and early
twentieth century. In the eighteenth century, Dutch Creole was primarily
documented by missionaries, who had learnt and adapted the language for their
own purposes.

This dissertation takes advantage of the digital availability of the Dutch
Creole data to address the issue of variation in all data sources: eighteenth
century missionary data as well as twentieth century data of speakers of
African descent. This dissertation explores system-internal and cross-system
variation of tense, modality, and aspect markers, benefiting from their highly
language-specific profile for investigating and comparing closely related
language varieties where the linguistic background of the language user plays
an important role, as is the case for Dutch Creole.

Features investigated include past time reference marking, imperfective,
prospective, perfect, and completive aspect, and modality, taking all language
varieties present in the multilingual Danish West Indies context into account:
seventeenth century and contemporary Dutch, English, German, Danish, and West
African languages as Akan, Ewegbe, and Ga.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Negerhollands (dcr)

Written In: English  (eng)

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