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Imprint:Heidelberg : J. Groos, ©1983.
Description:1 online resource (184 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Varieties of English around the world. T., 0172-7362 ; v. 2
Varieties of English around the world. Text series ; v. 2.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11259573
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Other authors / contributors:Holm, John A.
Escure, Geneviève.
ISBN:9789027286697
9027286698
3872762958
9783872762955
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-183).
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Summary:This volume is about the Anglophone creoles to be found on the Caribbean coast of Central America (Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama), and its offshore islands (Providencia, San Andrés and the Caymans) . The study of these Anglophone varieties is comparatively recent and based on current field work from Belize to Panama. One of the interesting features that emerges is the tentative map of diachronic and synchronic relationsships among the Anglophone creoles of the Caribbean, as illustrated partly by the lexicon and partly by grammatical constructions. The studies in this book are.
Other form:Print version: Central American English. Heidelberg : J. Groos, ©1983 3872762958