Chapter 10
Heritage languages in a post-colonial setting
Focus on Papiamentu
Article outline
- 10.1Introduction
- 10.2Early history of Papiamentu
- 10.3Background on Papiamentu and its status nowadays
- 10.4A brief history of Papiamentu-Dutch contact
- 10.4.1The 18th century
- 10.4.2Increase of Dutch influence on Curaçao in the 19th and 20th centuries
- 10.4.3The current situation
- 10.5Dutch influence on Papiamentu
- 10.5.1Quantity and quality of Dutch loans
- 10.5.2Phonological adaptation of Dutch loans
- 10.5.3Calques
- 10.5.4Discourse markers and modal particles
- 10.5.5Prepositions and verb particle combinations
- 10.5.6Passive and the agent phrase
- 10.5.7Other function words borrowed from Dutch
- 10.6Morphological integration of Dutch nouns and verbs
- 10.6.1Nouns and nominalizations
- 10.6.2Verbs and inflection
- 10.7Papiamentu in the Netherlands
- 10.8Summary and conclusion
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Notes