Urban Bahamian Creole : system and variation
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Urban Bahamian Creole : system and variation
（Varieties of English around the world, General series ; v. 32）
John Benjamins, c2004
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Kobe Shoin Women's University Library / Kobe Shoin Women's College Library
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-248) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume, a detailed empirical study of the creole English spoken in the Bahamian capital, Nassau, contributes to our understanding of both urban creoles and tense-aspect marking in creoles. The first part traces the development of a creole in the Bahamas via socio-demographic data and outlines its current status and functions vis-a-vis the standard in politics, the media, and education. The linguistic chapters combine typological and variationist methods to describe exhaustively a comprehensive grammatical subsystem, past temporal reference, offering a discourse-based approach to such controversial categories as the preverbal past marker. The quantitative analysis of variable past inflection, finally, tests not only well-known constraints, such as stativity or social class, but also ethnographically determined ones, such as narrative type. Its results are relevant not only to the study of Caribbean English-lexifier creoles and related varieties, such as African American English, but also to variation and change in urban dialects generally.
Table of Contents
- 1. Map
- 2. Abbreviations
- 3. List of Tables
- 4. List of Figures
- 5. Acknowledgements
- 6. 1. Introduction
- 7. 2. Methodology
- 8. 3 .Sociohistory and Sociolinguistics
- 9. 4. Past Temporal Reference: Categories, Meanings, and Uses
- 10. 5. Past Marking by Verb Inflection
- 11. 6. Conclusion
- 12. Appendix
- 13. References
- 14. Index
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