Focus on the Caribbean
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Focus on the Caribbean
（Varieties of English around the world, . General series ; v. 8）
J. Benjamins, 1986
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction (by Gorlach, Manfred)
- 2. The spread of English in the Caribbean area (by Holm, John)
- 3. The decay of neo-colonial official language policies. The case of the English-lexicon Creoles of the Commonwealth Caribbean (by Devonish, Hubert)
- 4. On writing English-related Creoles in the Caribbean (by Hellinger, Marlis)
- 5. Social class and the use of language: A case study of Jamaican children (by Craig, Dennis R.)
- 6. Tracing elusive phonological features of Early Jamaican Creole (by Lalla, Barbara)
- 7. Etymology in Caribbean Creoles (by Cassidy, Frederic G.)
- 8. The structure of tense and aspect in Barbadian English Creole (by Roy, John D.)
- 9. Innovation in Jamaican Creole. The speech of Rastafari (by Pollard, Velma)
- 10. Notes on durative constructions in Jamaican and Guyanese Creole (by Mufwene, Salikoko S.)
- 11. Evidence for an unsuspected habitual marker in Jamaican (by Christie, Pauline)
- 12. English-Spanish contact in the United States and Central America: Sociolinguistic mirror images? (by Lipski, John M.)
- 13. Addresses of authors
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