Focus on the Caribbean

Editors

Manfred Görlach

John Holm †

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ISBN 9789027248664 | EUR 80.00 | USD 120.00

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This collection represents an important contribution not only to creole linguistics but also to Caribbean studies and English dialectology. It contains eleven essays on the special development and present-day functions of English and Creole in the Caribbean, ranging from Central America to Guyana. Topics include the spread of English and Creole, Spanish-English contact, the reconstruction of early phonology, the semantics of syntactic markers, the impact of colonial language policies, language and class, and the speech of Rastafarians. Half of the contributors are from the Caribbean region; the others are from Europe, Africa and the United States.

[Varieties of English Around the World, G8] 1986. viii, 209 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/veaw.g8

Table of Contents

Introduction Manfred Görlach and John Holm †	vii
The spread of English in the Caribbean area John Holm †	1
The decay of neo-colonial official language policies. The case of the English-lexicon Creoles of the Commonwealth Caribbean Hubert Devonish	23
On writing English-related Creoles in the Caribbean Marlis Hellinger	53
Social class and the use of language: A case study of Jamaican children Dennis R. Craig	71
Tracing elusive phonological features of Early Jamaican Creole Barbara Lalla	117
Etymology in Caribbean Creoles Frederic G. Cassidy	133
The structure of tense and aspect in Barbadian English Creole John D. Roy	141
Innovation in Jamaican Creole. The speech of Rastafari Velma Pollard	157
Notes on durative constructions in Jamaican and Guyanese Creole Salikoko S. Mufwene	167
Evidence for an unsuspected habitual marker in Jamaican Pauline Christie	183
English-Spanish contact in the United States and Central America: Sociolinguistic mirror images? John M. Lipski	191
Addresses of authors	209

Cited by

Cited by 3 other publications

Robert Burchfield

1994. In The Cambridge History of the English Language,

Deuber, Dagmar

2013. Towards endonormative standards of English in the Caribbean: a study of students' beliefs and school curricula. Language, Culture and Curriculum 26:2 ► pp. 109 ff.

Holm, John A.

1994. In The Cambridge History of the English Language, ► pp. 328 ff.

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Subjects

Linguistics

Creole studies

Germanic linguistics

English linguistics

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 86026896 | Marc record