Central American English /

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Imprint:Heidelberg : J. Groos, c1983.
Description:184 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Varieties of English around the world. Text series, 0172-7362 ; v. 2
Varieties of English around the world. Text series v. 2
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/573275
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Other authors / contributors:Holm, John A.
Escure, Geneviève
ISBN:3872762958
Notes:Includes bibliographies.
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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 based on phonetic transcriptions of speech acts in their social and linguistic context.
Physical Description:184 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographies.
ISBN:3872762958