LEADER 04393nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910457769203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-87973-4 010 $a9786613721044 010 $a90-272-7913-6 035 $a(CKB)2550000000074588 035 $a(EBL)811292 035 $a(OCoLC)797919075 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000566621 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11349955 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000566621 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10551636 035 $a(PQKB)10322271 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC811292 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL811292 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10518037 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL372104 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000074588 100 $a19861010d1986 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aFocus on the Caribbean$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Manfred Go?rlach and John A. Holm 210 $aAmsterdam ;$aPhiladelphia $cJ. Benjamins Pub. Co.$d1986 215 $a1 online resource (219 p.) 225 1 $aVarieties of English around the world. General series,$x0172-7362 ;$vv. 8 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-272-4866-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aFOCUS 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 327 $aTRANSLATIONREFERENCES; 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 327 $aPROCESS 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?; NOTES 327 $aREFERENCESADDRESSES OF AUTHORS 330 $aThis collection represents an important contribution not only to creole linguistics but also to Caribbean studies and English dialectology. It contains eleven essays on the special development and present-day functions of English and Creole in the Caribbean, ranging from Central America to Guyana. Topics include the spread of English and Creole, Spanish-English contact, the reconstruction of early phonology, the semantics of syntactic markers, the impact of colonial language policies, language and class, and the speech of Rastafarians. Half of the contributors are from the Caribbean region; th 410 0$aVarieties of English around the world.$pGeneral series ;$vv. 8. 606 $aCreole dialects, English$zCaribbean Area 606 $aEnglish language$zCaribbean Area 607 $aCaribbean Area$xLanguages 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCreole dialects, English 615 0$aEnglish language 676 $a427/.9729 701 $aGo?rlach$b Manfred$0403284 701 $aHolm$b John A$0156718 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457769203321 996 $aFocus on the Caribbean$92139383 997 $aUNINA