Focus on the Caribbean / / editors, Manfred Görlach, John A. Holm

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1986
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (219 pages)
• Disciplina: 427/.9729
• Soggetto topico: Creole dialects, English - Caribbean Area; English language - Caribbean Area
• Soggetto geografico: Caribbean Area Languages
• Altri autori: GörlachManfred HolmJohn A
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 ; 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Focus on the Caribbean
• ISBN: 1-280-87973-4; 9786613721044; 90-272-7913-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910809871303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Varieties of English around the world. . -General series ; ; 8.