Focus on the Caribbean /
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| Imprint: | Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1986. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 209 pages) : maps. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Varieties of English around the world. General series, 0172-7362 ; v. 8 Varieties of English around the world. General series ; v. 8. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11123608 |
Table of Contents:
- -1. Prelim pages
- 0. Table of contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The\spread of English in the Caribbean area
- 3. The\decay of neo-colonial official language policies. The case of the English-lexicon Creoles of the Commonwealth Caribbean
- 4. On writing English-related Creoles in the Caribbean
- 5. Social class and the use of language
- 6. Tracing elusive phonological features of Early Jamaican Creole
- 7. Etymology in Caribbean Creoles
- 8. The\structure of tense and aspect in Barbadian English Creole
- 9. Innovation in Jamaican Creole. The speech of Rastafari
- 10. Notes on durative constructions in Jamaican and Guyanese Creole
- 11. Evidence for an unsuspected habitual marker in Jamaican
- 12. English-Spanish contact in the United States and Central America
- 13. Addresses of authors