Cover not available

Review published In: English World-Wide
Vol. 10:1 (1989) ► pp.149–154

Get fulltext from our e-platform
JBE logo with link
PDF logo with download linkDownload PDF
authorization required
Book review

John R. Rickford. Dimensions of a Creole Continuum: History, Texts and Linguistic Analysis of Guyanese Creole. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987. xix + 340 pp. $42.50 hb.

Reviewed by
 | City University of New York
Published online: 1 January 1989
DOI logo with link
https://doi.org/10.1075/eww.10.1.17hol
References (11)
References
Bickerton, Derek. 1973. “On the nature of a Creole continuum”, Language 491, 640–69. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 1975. Dynamics of a Creole System. Cambridge: University Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Cassidy, F. G. 1961. Jamaica Talk: Three Hundred Years of the English Language in Jamaica. London: MacMillan.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Devonish, Hubert. 1984. “Creole language standardisation in Guyana: race, class and urban-rural factors”, in Sebba and Todd 1984:63–73.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Edwards, Walter F. 1984. “A community-based approach to the provenance of urban Guyanese Creole”, in Sebba and Todd 1984:83–94.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Labov, William. 1972. Language in the Inner City: Studies in the Black English Vernacular. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Le Page, R. B. and A. Tabouret-Keller. 1985. Acts of Identity: Creole-based Approaches to Language and Ethnicity. Cambridge: University Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Le Page, R. B. 1987. “The need for a multidimensional model”, in G. Gilbert, ed., Pidgin and Creole Languages: Essays in Memory of John E. Reinecke. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 113–29.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Sandoval, Padre Alonso de. 1627. De Instauranda Aethiopum Salute. Seville: F. de Lira (reprinted 1956, Bogotá: Empresa Nacional de Pub-licaciones).Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Sebba, Mark and Loreto Todd, eds. 1984. Papers from the York Creole Conference, September 24–27, 1983. York Papers in Linguistics 111.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Smith, Norval, Ian Robertson and Kay Williamson. 1987. “The Ijo element in Berbice Dutch”, Language in Society 161, 49–89. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Mobile Menu Logo with link to supplementary files background Layer 1 prag Twitter_Logo_Blue