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The life and death of Mrs. Alice Stevens (1899-1987) on Lingoblog.dk

Posted on September 28, 2023 | Leave a comment

A few moments ago I mentioned Aarhus the beating heart of the study of Virgin Islands Dutch Creole in Europe. Well… another example is the following article which was published on September 27, 2023. It presents the live of Mrs. Alice Stevens, the last native speaker of Virgin Islands Dutch Creole, and her role in the study of the language. An interesting read with links to further study or information about the language.

The life and death of Mrs. Alice Stevens (1899–1987) and her native language (ca. 1700–1987)

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Review of ‘Language contact in the Danish West Indies: Giving Jack his jacket’

Posted on May 27, 2016 | Leave a comment

About this moment, only four years ago, Robin Sabino’s Language contact in the Danish West Indies: Giving Jack his jacket appeared. This work is without a doubt THE description of spoken Virgin Islands Dutch Creole and contains a bulk of information about all stages and aspects of this Dutch related Creole.

In the latest volume of Journal of Pidgin and Creole Language Peter Bakker (Aarhus University) published his review:

Bakker, Peter. 2016. Review of Language contact in the Danish West Indies: Giving Jack his Jacket. By Robin Sabino. Leiden: Brill 2012. Pp. 337 ISBN 978-90-04-22540-4 (Brill’s Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture, Volume 1) (…). In: Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 31: 1, p. 223-228.

Other reviews of Sabino (2012) are Migge (2013) and Van den Berg & Van Sluijs (2015).

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Review Robin Sabino’s Language Contact in the Danish West Indies, by Bettina Migge.

Posted on December 1, 2013 | 1 comment

In this months issue of Language in Society (42, 5 (2013), pp. 579-585) Bettina Migge reviewed Robin Sabino’s Language Contact in the Danish West Indies: “This study of the history of VIDC is not only of interest to researchers interested in Dutch creoles. It is a fine demonstration of how careful cross-disciplinary research can provide invaluable insights into the conditions, processes, and outcomes of language-contact situations past and present.”

Please use Sabino’s book, not only because of the very interesting content of the work istself, but also because of the unique dictionary of the last stage of Negerhollands and the several hundreds of recordings of Mrs. Alice Stevens which are made digitally available.

Cefas van Rossem

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