Contact Englishes of the Eastern CaribbeanMichael Aceto, Jeffrey Payne Williams John Benjamins Publishing, 2003 M01 1 - 320 pages Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean is the first collection to focus, via primary linguistic fieldwork, on the underrepresented and neglected area of the Anglophone Eastern Caribbean. The following islands are included: The Virgin Islands (USA & British), Anguilla, Barbuda, Dominica, St. Lucia, Carriacou, Barbados, Trinidad, and Guyana. In an effort to be as inclusive as possible, the contiguous areas of the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos islands (often considered part of North American Englishes) are also included. Papers in this volume explore all aspects of language study, including syntax, phonology, historical linguistics, dialectology, sociolinguistics, ethnography, and performance. It should be of interest not only to creolists but also to linguists, anthropologists, sociologists and educators either in the Caribbean itself or those who work with schoolchildren of West Indian descent. |
Contents
Phonological accommodation | 1 |
The grammatical features of TMA auxiliaries in Bahamian Creole | 29 |
A look at Grand Turk | 51 |
Plural markings | 81 |
The establishment and perpetuation of Anglophone white enclave | 95 |
What are Creole languages? An alternative approach to | 121 |
Language variation and language use among teachers in Dominica | 141 |
On the sociohistorical origins | 155 |
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Common terms and phrases
AAVE Abaco Aceto acrolectal Anglophone Anguilla Anguillian aspect auxiliaries Bahamas Bahamian Bajan Barbadian Barbados basilectal British Caicos Islands Caribbean Creoles Caribbean English Carriacou CEC varieties century Cherokee Sound co-occur colonial contexts copula Creole English Creole languages Creole Varieties creolized decreolization described Dominica downstep Eastern Caribbean emergence English Creole English-derived example French Creole grammatical Grand Turk Granny Guyanese habitual high tone historical immigrants influence Island Harbour Jamaican Kwéyòl language contact language varieties lexical linguistic Lucia marked marker masi mesolectal modal Mufwene non-standard noted noun pattern phonological Pidgin and Creole pitch players plural population preverbal Rickford Sandy Point second language semantic Shakespeare slaves social sociohistorical sociolinguistic speakers speech spoken Standard English syntactic teachers tense tonal Trinidad Trinidadian Turks Island variation varieties of English verb Vernacular English VESL VESL's village Virgin Islands vowel Webster dialect West African West Indian