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Language Contact in the Danish West Indies: Giving Jack His Jacket lays bare crucial roles played by community and resistance in the refashioning of heritage languages. Robin Sabino draws on her community relationships, her fieldwork with a last speaker, and research from a range of disciplines, to advance a revisionist history that elucidates the African linguistic resources used to create community in a land those who were transhipped did not choose and from which they could not return. In parallel fashion, the narrative locates the partial appropriation of creole features by the colony’s Euro-Caribbean community in the emergence of local identity. It also traces the replacement of Dutch and Virgin Islands Dutch Creole with their English counterparts. Includes more than 300 unique sound records of the last native speaker.

Creole dialects, Dutch --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics --- Language and languages --- Characterology of speech --- Language diversity --- Language subsystems --- Language variation --- Linguistic diversity --- Variation in language --- Dutch Creole languages --- Negro-Dutch dialects --- Variation. --- Virgin Islands of the United States --- American Virgin Islands --- American Virgins --- Američka Djevičanska ostrva --- Americké Panenské ostrovy --- Amerika Virgin adaları --- Amerikaanse Maagde-eilande --- Amerikanikes Parthenoi Nēsoi --- Amerikanische Jungferninseln --- Amerikanischi Jumpfereinsle --- Amerikanske Jomfruøer --- Amerikańske kněžniske kupy --- Amerikanski Virdzhinski ostrovi --- Amerykanskii︠a︡ Virhinskii︠a︡ astravy --- AQSh Virgin utraut︠h︡ary --- Bí-kok Virgin Kûn-tó --- Birjina uharte amerikarrak --- Iles Vièrges amèriquênes --- Illes Verges Americanes --- Illes Verges Nord-americanes --- Inizi Gwerc'h ar Stadoù-Unanet --- Islas Vírgenes de los Estados Unidos --- Islas Virgenes nin Estados Unidos --- Islas Virgenes (U.S.) --- Isles de Vierges (U.S.) --- Isles des Vierges (U.S.) --- Islles Vírxenes Americanes --- Islles Vírxenes d'Estaos Xuníos --- Isole Vergini (U.S.) --- Parthenoi Nēsoi tōn Ēnōmenōn Politeiōn --- U.S.V.I. --- U.S. Virgin Islands --- Ühendriikide Neitsisaared --- US Virgin Islands --- USA Neitsisaared --- Usonaj Virgulininsuloj --- USVI --- V.I. --- VI --- Virgin Islands (American) --- Virgin Islands (U.S.) --- Virgin Islands (USA) --- Παρθένοι Νήσοι των Ηνωμένων Πολιτειών --- Αμερικανικές Παρθένοι Νήσοι --- Амерыканскія Віргінскія астравы --- Американски Вирджински острови --- Danish West Indies --- Languages. --- Languages in contact --- Areal linguistics

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Language Variety in the South Revisited is a comprehensive collection of new research on southern United States English by foremost scholars of regional language variation. Like its predecessor, Language Variety in the South: Perspectives in Black and White (The University of Alabama Press, 1986), this book includes current research into African American vernacular English, but it greatly expands the scope of investigation and offers an extensive assessment of the field. The volume encompasses studies of contact involving African and European languages; analyses of discourse, pragmatic, lexical, phonological, and syntactic features; and evaluations of methods of collecting and examining data. The 38 essays not only offer a wealth of information about southern language varieties but also serve as models for regional linguistic investigation.

Americanisms --- Black English --- Languages in contact --- English language --- African Americans --- Germanic languages --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Areal linguistics --- African American English --- American black dialect --- Ebonics --- Negro-English dialects --- Dialects --- Languages. --- Social aspects --- Foreign elements. --- Variation --- Languages --- Provincialisms --- Southern States --- Black people