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Titolo |
Focus on the Caribbean / / editors, Manfred Görlach, John A. Holm |
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Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1986 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-87973-4 |
9786613721044 |
90-272-7913-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (219 pages) |
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Collana |
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Varieties of English around the world. General series, , 0172-7362 ; ; v. 8 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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GörlachManfred |
HolmJohn A |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Creole dialects, English - Caribbean Area |
English language - Caribbean Area |
Caribbean Area Languages |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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FOCUS ON THE CARIBBEAN; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Introduction; The spread of English in the Caribbean area; REFERENCES; The decay of neo-colonial official language policies. The case of the English-lexicon Creoles of the Commonwealth Caribbean; Introduction; Language education policy; The legal system; The mass media; The political system; The Caribbean Lexicography Project; Solutions; Some general principles; The planning and development of Caribbean English-lexicon Creoles; The implementation of the use of Creole in official domains; Conclusion |
TRANSLATION REFERENCES; On writing English-related Creoles in the Caribbean; 1. Introduction; 2. Language politics; 3. Aspects of creole writing systems; 4. Aspects of readability; 5. Conclusion; REFERENCES; Social class and the use of language: A case study of Jamaican children; REFERENCES; Tracing elusive phonological features of Early Jamaican Creole; REFERENCES; Etymology in Caribbean Creoles; REFERENCES; The structure of tense and aspect in Barbadian English Creole; Introduction; The Bajan tense-aspect system; The semantic structure of the tense-aspect system of the Bajan verb |
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PROCESS versus FACT Extended PROCESS; PAST marking; Locative de; COMPLETIVE dun; Future and serial go; Conclusion; REFERENCES; Innovation in Jamaican Creole The speech of Rastafari; NOTES; REFERENCES; Notes on durative constructions in Jamaican and Guyanese creoles; 1. Introduction; 2. Interpreting the Durative Constructions; 3. On the origins of the durative constructions; 4. Conclusions; NOTES; REFERENCES; ADDENDA; Evidence for an unsuspected habitual marker in Jamaican; REFERENCES; English-Spanish contact in the United States and Central America: sociolinguistic mirror images?; NOTES |
REFERENCES ADDRESSES OF AUTHORS |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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