2014
DOI: 10.1017/s1470542714000063
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Three Dutch Creoles in Comparison

Abstract: Three Dutch creoles, all of them extinct, have been documented, but not all to the same extent. Negerhollands of the Virgin Islands has been documented throughout a 250-year period, Berbice Dutch of Guyana during two decades of solid fieldwork in the 1970s and 1980s, and Skepi Dutch is only known through a handful of sentences and some 200 words collected in the 1970s. In this article, the lexical and grammatical data from the three creoles are compared, to the extent that they are available and comparable. Th… Show more

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“…However, there has been only limited systematic comparison of the varieties in the cluster as to their structural characteristics. Building in part on Bakker (2014), we will try to ll this gap in this chapter by charting a speci c construction: the supra-locative prepositional phrase of the type ((n)a)bo(no) 'on' in two varieties of VIDC: the 20th century data recorded by Josselin de Jong (1926), and the variety in the 18th century religious texts. A systematic search in the VIDC data is possible because of the NEHOL data base constructed for this language with the support of Clarin-NL.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, there has been only limited systematic comparison of the varieties in the cluster as to their structural characteristics. Building in part on Bakker (2014), we will try to ll this gap in this chapter by charting a speci c construction: the supra-locative prepositional phrase of the type ((n)a)bo(no) 'on' in two varieties of VIDC: the 20th century data recorded by Josselin de Jong (1926), and the variety in the 18th century religious texts. A systematic search in the VIDC data is possible because of the NEHOL data base constructed for this language with the support of Clarin-NL.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%