2015/04/03 by B. Jacobs, van der Wal · 43 citations
Arts and Humanities · #Historical Linguistics and Language Studies #Linguistics and Language Studies #Linguistics and Discourse Analysis #Fragment (logic) #Context (archaeology) #History #Value (mathematics) #Literature #Linguistics #Computer science #Archaeology #Art #Philosophy
paper · doi:10.1075/jpcl.30.1.02jac
published in Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 30(1), 44-62 (John Benjamins Publishing Company)
openalex publication_date 2015/04/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
In this paper, we discuss the recent discovery of four letters written in 1783, one of which is written fully in Papiamentu, the other three comprising Papiamentu fragments. The data in these constitute one of the earliest written attestations of Papiamentu. We first provide a brief overview of the earliest attestations of Papiamentu and then present the Letters as Loot research programme, to which we owe the discovery of the 1783 letters. Following this, the article discusses the contents of the letters and the socio-historical context in which they were written. To close, we discuss the value of this new source for Papiamentu studies.