Studies in Caribbean language II
Subtitle: papers from the ninth biennial conference of the Society of Caribbean Linguistics, 1992
By: edited by Pauline Christie ... [et al]
Publisher: Society for Caribbean Linguistics
Published: 1998
Place of publication: St Augustine, Trinidad, West Indies
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
Subjects: Creole dialects; Languages
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-338).
Table of contents: title: On the existence of autonomous language variteties in "Creole Continuum Situations" / Hubert Devonish; title: The fabric of Barbadian English / Peter Roberts; title: The nature of language contacts on Guadeloupe during slavery : sociological and linguistic evidence / Ama Kimpukulu Mazama (formerly Marie-Josée Cérol); title: A study in 17th century ethnolinguistics : the Angolas in the French colony of St Kitts / Vincent Cooper; title: Developmental patterns in the acquisition of english negation by speakers of St Lucian French creole / Hazel Simmons-McDonald; title: Some correspondence between West African and Jamaican creole speakers in learning standard English / Beverley Bryan; title: A sociolinguistic approach to critical analysis in the Caribbean / Barbara Lalla; title: Sociolinguistic features of rap lyrics : comparisons with reggae; title: Walter F. Edwards; title: The use of ben in narrative texts in Sranan Tongo / John Wilner; title: Cohesion in Limonese creole / Anita Herzfeld; title: The lexicon of dread talk in standard Jamaican English / Velma Pollard; title: Hens can crow too : the female voice in authority on air in Jamaica / Kathryn Shields- Brodber; title: Negation patterns and the cline of creoleness in english-oriented varieties in the Caribbean / Edgar W. Schneider; title: An alternative to the [+ anterior] tense system / Kean Gibson; title: On delimitation : an aspect of aspect / Claire Lefebvre; title: More on infinitives in creole : the nature of Sranan fu and its complements /Ingo Plag; title: Noun phrases in Dominican creole / Pauline Christie; title: The semantic representation and PRAN 'take' in light verb constructions and serial verb constructions in Haitian creole / John Lumsden; title: A methodological comparison of regional French creole and Spanish lexicography / Jeanette Allsopp.