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- Creator
- edited by Michael Aceto, Jeffrey P. Williams
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, [2003]
- ©2003
- Physical Details
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- xx, 320 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9027248907, 9786612161230, 9781588113634, 9789027248909, 1282161237, 9027296502, 1588113639
- OCLC
- ocm51294029
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-315) and index.
- Introduction / Michael Aceto and Jeffrey P. Williams -- Defining ethnic varieties in the Bahamas : phonological accommodation in black and white enclave communities / Becky Childs, Jeffrey Reaser, and Walt Wolfram -- The grammatical features of TMA auxiliaries in Bahamian Creole / Helean McPhee -- English in the Turks and Caicos islands: a look at Grand Turk / Cecilia Cutler -- Language variety in the Virgin Islands : plural markings / Robin Sabino, Mary Diamond, and Leah Cockcroft
- The establishment and perpetuation of Anglophone white enclave communities in the Eastern Caribbean : the case of Island Harbor, Anguilla / Jeffrey P. Williams -- What are Creole languages? An alternative approach to the Anglophone Atlantic world with special emphasis on Barbudan Creole English / Michael Aceto -- Language variation and language use among teachers in Dominica / Beverley Bryan and Rosalind Burnette -- An "English Creole" that isn't : on the sociohistorical origins and linguistic classification of the vernacular English in St. Lucia / Paul B. Garrett
- The Carriacou Shakespeare Mas' : linguistic creativity in a Creole community / Joan M. Fayer -- Creole English on Carriacou : a sketch and some implications / Ronald Kephart -- Barbadian lects : beyond Meso / Gerard Van Herk -- Eastern Caribbean suprasegmental systems : a comparative view, with particular reference to Barbadian, Trinidadian, and Guyanese / David Sutcliffe