Robin Sabino

List of John Benjamins publications for which Robin Sabino plays a role.

Articles (5) | Order by:

Sabino, Robin, Mary Diamond and Leah Cockcroft 2003 Language variety in the Virgin Islands: Plural markings Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean, Aceto, Michael and Jeffrey P. Williams (eds.), pp. 81–94 | Article

Sabino, Robin 1995 Review of Hall & Higman (1992): Slave society in the Danish West Indies: St. Thomas, St. John, & St. Croix Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 10:1, pp. 197–201 | Review

Sabino, Robin 1995 Letter to the editor Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 10:1, p. | Miscellaneous

Sabino, Robin 1993 On Onsets: Explaining Negerhollands Initial Clusters Atlantic Meets Pacific: A global view of pidginization and creolization, Byrne, Francis and John Holm † (eds.), pp. 37–48 | Article

Sabino, Robin 1988 The Copula in Vernacular Negerhollands Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 3:2, pp. 199–212 | Article

Using the texts collected by J.B.P. de Josselin de Jong as a data base, the paper describes the linguistic conditioning associated with copula forms in Negerhollands, a Dutch-lexicon Creole which was once spoken in what are now the U.S. Virgin Islands. Seven copula forms are identified: wees, bi,… read more