The decay of neo-colonial official language policies. The case of the English-lexicon Creoles of the Commonwealth Caribbean

Devonish, Hubert

doi:10.1075/veaw.g8.03dev

In:Focus on the Caribbean
Edited by Manfred Görlach † and John Holm †
[Varieties of English Around the World G8] 1986
► pp. 23–52

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The decay of neo-colonial official language policies. The case of the English-lexicon Creoles of the Commonwealth Caribbean

Hubert Devonish

Published online: 1 January 1986

https://doi.org/10.1075/veaw.g8.03dev

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