Language issues in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
By: Edited by Paula Prescod, Université de Picardie Jules Verne/Universität Bielefeld
Series: Varieties of English Around the World (VEAW) -- volume G51
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company; Benjamins Publishing Company, John
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9789027249111; 9789027269003
Subjects: English Creole dialects; Languages
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Sociohistorical and linguistic account of St Vincent and the Grenadines / Paula Prescod & Adrian Fraser; title: The fate of the local in light of the global: Analysis of variation in the use of preverbal markers in Bequia Creole / Agata Daleszynska; title: Subject and object pronoun use in Bequia (St Vincent and the Grenadines) / Miriam Meyerhoff & James A. Walker; title: A she gi me words; well me gi she back de change: the reframing of stigmatized talk by everyday women-of-words in St Vincent / Elizabeth Fortenbery; title: The distribution of diagnostic features in English-lexified contact languages: Vincentian / Andrei A. Avram; title: Creole reflexes of do: Zeroing in on tense, aspect and modality in Vincentian Creole / Paula Prescod; title: Languages in St vincent and the Grenadines: an annotated bibliography / Donna E. Cromer.