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

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Published online: 1 January 1986
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Introductionvii
The spread of English in the Caribbean area1
The decay of neo-colonial official language policies. The case of the English-lexicon Creoles of the Commonwealth Caribbean23
On writing English-related Creoles in the Caribbean53
Social class and the use of language: A case study of Jamaican children71
Tracing elusive phonological features of Early Jamaican Creole117
Etymology in Caribbean Creoles133
The structure of tense and aspect in Barbadian English Creole141
Innovation in Jamaican Creole. The speech of Rastafari157
Notes on durative constructions in Jamaican and Guyanese Creole167
Evidence for an unsuspected habitual marker in Jamaican183
English-Spanish contact in the United States and Central America: Sociolinguistic mirror images?191
Addresses of authors209
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