Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. The spread of English in the Caribbean area 1
5. The decay of neo-colonial official language policies. The case of the English-lexicon Creoles of the Commonwealth Caribbean 23
6. On writing English-related Creoles in the Caribbean 53
7. Social class and the use of language 71
8. Tracing elusive phonological features of Early Jamaican Creole 117
9. Etymology in Caribbean Creoles 133
10. The structure of tense and aspect in Barbadian English Creole 141
11. Innovation in Jamaican Creole. The speech of Rastafari 157
12. Notes on durative constructions in Jamaican and Guyanese Creole 167
13. Evidence for an unsuspected habitual marker in Jamaican 183
14. English-Spanish contact in the United States and Central America 191
15. Addresses of authors 209