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English-Spanish contact in the United States and Central America
Sociolinguistic mirror images?
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Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction vii
- The spread of English in the Caribbean area 1
- The decay of neo-colonial official language policies. The case of the English-lexicon Creoles of the Commonwealth Caribbean 23
- On writing English-related Creoles in the Caribbean 53
- Social class and the use of language 71
- Tracing elusive phonological features of Early Jamaican Creole 117
- Etymology in Caribbean Creoles 133
- The structure of tense and aspect in Barbadian English Creole 141
- Innovation in Jamaican Creole. The speech of Rastafari 157
- Notes on durative constructions in Jamaican and Guyanese Creole 167
- Evidence for an unsuspected habitual marker in Jamaican 183
- English-Spanish contact in the United States and Central America 191
- Addresses of authors 209
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction vii
- The spread of English in the Caribbean area 1
- The decay of neo-colonial official language policies. The case of the English-lexicon Creoles of the Commonwealth Caribbean 23
- On writing English-related Creoles in the Caribbean 53
- Social class and the use of language 71
- Tracing elusive phonological features of Early Jamaican Creole 117
- Etymology in Caribbean Creoles 133
- The structure of tense and aspect in Barbadian English Creole 141
- Innovation in Jamaican Creole. The speech of Rastafari 157
- Notes on durative constructions in Jamaican and Guyanese Creole 167
- Evidence for an unsuspected habitual marker in Jamaican 183
- English-Spanish contact in the United States and Central America 191
- Addresses of authors 209
