Language Contact in the Danish West Indies: Giving Jack His Jacket

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.

About the author

Robin Sabino (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania) is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Auburn University interested in language contact, variation and change. Ongoing projects include exploration of variationist models, multilingualism, and development self-instructional materials for Tsalagi.

Product details

• Authors: Robin Sabino
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.07.2012
• EAN: 9789004225404
• ISBN: 978-90-04-22540-4
• No. of pages: 360
• Weight: 1540 g
• Series: Brill's Studies in Language, C
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics