Abstract:There is a growing consensus that the varieties of Virgin Islands Dutch Creole (VIDC) -o en referred to as Negerhollands -should not be viewed as a single language, but rather as a language cluster of related varieties. However, there has been only limited systematic comparison of the varieties in the cluster as to their structural characteristics. We will try to ll this gap in this chapter by charting a speci c construction: the supra-locative prepositional phrases in two varieties of VIDC: the 20th century d… Show more
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