Alexander Laube
List of John Benjamins publications for which Alexander Laube plays a role.
Articles
2021. ‘Broken English’, ‘dialect’ or ‘Bahamianese’? Language attitudes and identity in The Bahamas. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 36:2, pp. 362–394
The study investigates language attitudes in The Bahamas, addressing the current status of the local creole in society as well as attitudinal indicators of endonormative reorientation and stabilization. At the heart of the study is a verbal guise test which investigates covert language attitudes… read more | Article
2018. You ain’t got principle, you ain’t got nothing: Verbal negation in Bahamian Creole. English World-Wide 39:3, pp. 278–308
The present study investigates the system of verbal negation in Bahamian Creole and relates it to the respective systems of historically connected varieties in North America, i.e. contemporary as well as earlier varieties of African American Vernacular English and Gullah. Building on a corpus of… read more | Article