LEADER 04310nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910809871303321 005 20230201235019.0 010 $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$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aFocus on the Caribbean /$feditors, Manfred Go?rlach, John A. Holm 210 $aAmsterdam ;$aPhiladelphia $cJ. Benjamins Pub. Co.$d1986 215 $a1 online resource (219 pages) 225 1 $aVarieties of English around the world. General series,$x0172-7362 ;$vv. 8 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $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 $aTRANSLATION 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 327 $aPROCESS 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 327 $aREFERENCES ADDRESSES OF AUTHORS 330 $aThis collection represents an important contribution not only to creole linguistics but also to Caribbean studies and English dialectology. It contains eleven essays on the special development and present-day functions of English and Creole in the Caribbean, ranging from Central America to Guyana. Topics include the spread of English and Creole, Spanish-English contact, the reconstruction of early phonology, the semantics of syntactic markers, the impact of colonial language policies, language and class, and the speech of Rastafarians. 410 0$aVarieties of English around the world.$pGeneral series ;$v8. 606 $aCreole dialects, English$zCaribbean Area 606 $aEnglish language$zCaribbean Area 607 $aCaribbean Area$xLanguages 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 $a9910809871303321 996 $aFocus on the Caribbean$93987700 997 $aUNINA