ENGLISH

Focus on the Caribbean

By Manfred Görlach , John A Holm

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins
Year
1986
ISBN
9027248664 9789027248664
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
21 MB (22147860 bytes)
Series
Varieties of English around the world. General series ; 8.; Filologia y linguistica
Pages
209\220
Time added
2017-03-20 17:54:50
Creole dialectsEnglish -- Caribbean Area. English language --

Description

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.

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