Get fulltext from our e-platform
Focus on the Caribbean
Editors
This collection represents an important contribution not only to creole linguistics but also to Caribbean studies and English dialectology. It contains eleven essays on the special development and present-day functions of English and Creole in the Caribbean, ranging from Central America to Guyana. Topics include the spread of English and Creole, Spanish-English contact, the reconstruction of early phonology, the semantics of syntactic markers, the impact of colonial language policies, language and class, and the speech of Rastafarians. Half of the contributors are from the Caribbean region; the others are from Europe, Africa and the United States.
[Varieties of English Around the World, G8] 1986. viii, 209 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 28 November 2011
Published online on 28 November 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- IntroductionManfred Görlach and John Holm | p. vii
- The spread of English in the Caribbean areaJohn Holm | p. 1
- The decay of neo-colonial official language policies. The case of the English-lexicon Creoles of the Commonwealth CaribbeanHubert Devonish | p. 23
- On writing English-related Creoles in the CaribbeanMarlis Hellinger | p. 53
- Social class and the use of language: A case study of Jamaican childrenDennis R. Craig | p. 71
- Tracing elusive phonological features of Early Jamaican CreoleBarbara Lalla | p. 117
- Etymology in Caribbean CreolesFrederic G. Cassidy | p. 133
- The structure of tense and aspect in Barbadian English CreoleJohn D. Roy | p. 141
- Innovation in Jamaican Creole. The speech of RastafariVelma Pollard | p. 157
- Notes on durative constructions in Jamaican and Guyanese CreoleSalikoko S. Mufwene | p. 167
- Evidence for an unsuspected habitual marker in JamaicanPauline Christie | p. 183
- English-Spanish contact in the United States and Central America: Sociolinguistic mirror images?John M. Lipski | p. 191
- Addresses of authors | p. 209
Cited by (5)
Cited by five other publications
Deuber, Dagmar
Holm, John A.
[no author supplied]
This list is based on CrossRef data as of 12 december 2025. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.