04393nam 2200661 a 450 991045776920332120200520144314.01-280-87973-4978661372104490-272-7913-6(CKB)2550000000074588(EBL)811292(OCoLC)797919075(SSID)ssj0000566621(PQKBManifestationID)11349955(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000566621(PQKBWorkID)10551636(PQKB)10322271(MiAaPQ)EBC811292(Au-PeEL)EBL811292(CaPaEBR)ebr10518037(CaONFJC)MIL372104(EXLCZ)99255000000007458819861010d1986 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFocus on the Caribbean[electronic resource] /edited by Manfred Görlach and John A. HolmAmsterdam ;Philadelphia J. Benjamins Pub. Co.19861 online resource (219 p.)Varieties of English around the world. General series,0172-7362 ;v. 8Description based upon print version of record.90-272-4866-4 Includes bibliographical references.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; ConclusionTRANSLATIONREFERENCES; 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 verbPROCESS versus FACTExtended 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?; NOTESREFERENCESADDRESSES OF AUTHORSThis 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; thVarieties of English around the world.General series ;v. 8.Creole dialects, EnglishCaribbean AreaEnglish languageCaribbean AreaCaribbean AreaLanguagesElectronic books.Creole dialects, EnglishEnglish language427/.9729Görlach Manfred403284Holm John A156718MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457769203321Focus on the Caribbean2139383UNINA