Robin Sabino

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

Articles

Sabino, Robin, Mary Diamond and Leah Cockcroft 2003 Language variety in the Virgin Islands: Plural markingsContact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean, Aceto, Michael and Jeffrey P. Williams (eds.), pp. 81–94 | Article
Sabino, Robin 1995 Letter to the editorJournal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 10:1, p.  | Miscellaneous
Sabino, Robin 1993 On Onsets: Explaining Negerhollands Initial ClustersAtlantic Meets Pacific: A global view of pidginization and creolization, Byrne, Francis and John Holm † (eds.), pp. 37 ff. | 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