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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781291403321

Titolo

Central American English / / editor, John Holm

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Heidelberg : , : J. Groos, , 1983

©1983

ISBN

1-283-01239-1

9786613012395

90-272-8669-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (195 pages)

Collana

Varieties of English around the world. Text series ; ; v. 2

Altri autori (Persone)

EscureGeneviève

HolmJohn A

Disciplina

427/.9728

Soggetti

Creole dialects, English - Central America

English language - Dialects - Central America

English language - Caribbean Area

English language - Central America

Caribbean Area Languages

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographies.

Nota di contenuto

Central American English; TABLE OF CONTENTS; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; General Bibliography; ADDRESSES OF CONTRIBUTORS

Sommario/riassunto

This volume is about the Anglophone creoles to be found on the Caribbean coast of Central America (Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama), and its offshore islands (Providencia, San Andrés and the Caymans) . The study of these Anglophone varieties is comparatively recent and based on current field work from Belize to Panama. One of the interesting features that emerges is the tentative map of diachronic and synchronic relationships among the Anglophone creoles of the Caribbean, as illustrated partly by the lexicon and partly by grammatical constructions.