Central American English [[electronic resource] /] / edited by John Holm

• Pubblicazione: Heidelberg, : J. Groos, c1983
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (195 p.)
• Disciplina: 427/.9728
• Soggetto topico: Creole dialects, English - Central America; English language - Dialects - Central America; English language - Caribbean Area; English language - Central America
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: EscureGeneviève HolmJohn A
• 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 relationsships among the Anglophone creoles of the Caribbean, as illustrated partly by the lexicon and partly by grammatical constructions. The studies in this book are
• Titolo autorizzato: Central American English
• ISBN: 1-283-01239-1; 9786613012395; 90-272-8669-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910456907103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Varieties of English around the world. . -Text series ; ; v. 2.