Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean

Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean / edited by Michael Aceto, Jeffrey P. Williams.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Aceto, Michael, Williams, Jeffrey P. (Jeffrey Payne), 1958-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©2003.
Series:Varieties of English around the world. General series ; v. 30.
Subjects:
English language > Caribbean Area.
English language > Variation > Caribbean Area.
Creole dialects, English > Caribbean Area.
Languages in contact > Caribbean Area.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General.
Creole dialects, English
English language
English language > Variation
Language and languages
Languages in contact
Engels.
Engelse creooltalen.
Caribbean Area > Languages.
Caribbean Area
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Michael Aceto and Jeffrey P. Williams
  • Defining ethnic varieties in the Bahamas : phonological accommodation in black and white enclave communities / Becky Childs, Jeffrey Reaser, and Walt Wolfram
  • The grammatical features of TMA auxiliaries in Bahamian Creole / Helean McPhee
  • English in the Turks and Caicos islands: a look at Grand Turk / Cecilia Cutler
  • Lanugage variety in the Virgin Islands : plural markings / Robin Sabino, Mary Diamond, and Leah Cockcroft.
  • The establishment and perpetuation of Anglophone white enclave communities in the Eastern Caribbean : the case of Island Harbor, Anguilla / Jeffrey P. Williams
  • What are Creole languages? An alternative approach to the Anglophone Atlantic world with special emphasis on Barbudan Creole English / Michael Aceto
  • Language variation and language use among teachers in Dominica / Beverley Bryan and Rosalind Burnette
  • An "English Creole" that isn't : on the sociohistorical origins and linguistic classification of the vernacular English in St. Lucia / Paul B. Garrett.
  • The Carriacou Shakespeare Mas' : linguistic creativity in a Creole community / Joan M. Fayer
  • Creole English on Carriacou : a sketch and some implications / Ronald Kephart
  • Barbadian lects : beyond Meso / Gerard Van Herk
  • Eastern Caribbean suprasegmental systems : a comparative view, with particular reference to Barbadian, Trinidadian, and Guyanese / David Sutcliffe.

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