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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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, the author discusses about his article on Papiamentu, one of the most complex languages in the world, which was initially published in an journal. The author provides an explanation to Silvia Kouwenberg, who discusses a paper of his. The author does not support Kouwenberg's idea that the weighting of different subsystems of grammar appears arbitrary, in context of creoles languages.

The article provides a background for a critical understanding of the contemporary linguistic situation and literary life with regard to the Creole culture of the Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao (ABC) Islands. A historical synopsis from 1499 to the present, including a short account of the developments from the Spanish discovery until the 19th century, is presented. A short overview of the development of the creole language Papiamentu is also presented.

The article describes the development of the creole language Papiamentu during the period of slavery in the Caribbean islands of Curaçao, Aruba, and Bonaire. According to the author, the lexicon of Papiamentu is primarily of Iberian origin. He adds that Spanish influences are even more prevalent in Aruban Papiamentu than in Papiamentu spoken on Curaçao and Bonaire. A background of the origin of African enslavement by Europeans in presented.

The article explores the role of the Portuguese language on Curaçao in the formation of the Creole language Papiamentu. According to Alonso Zamora Vicente's classic dialectology, Papiamentu is based on the Afro-Portuguese Creole carried over by slaves from Africa. An overview of the Afro-Portuguese spoken by slaves and the Portuguese spoken by Sephardic Jews in the Caribbean area is also presented.

This paper reconsiders the complementiser and the tense-mood-aspect systems of the Papiamentu clause within the framework of the split CP (Rizzi 1997) and the split INFL (Pollock 1989) hypotheses, providing new evidence for the left periphery heads. It provides a detailed account of the Papiamentu morphemes involved that unifies syntactic and interpretive properties. Of particular interest is the proposal that di – which introduces infinitives – and lo – traditionally considered a future marker – both head FinP, and that pa, when functioning as a marker of necessity, heads MoodP. Contra certain claims in the literature, this paper argues that the order of preverbal material is not different from that of other Caribbean creoles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]