| Description |
1 online resource (184 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Varieties of English around the world. T., 0172-7362 ; v. 2 |
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Varieties of English around the world. Text series ; v. 2.
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| Contents |
Introduction / John Holm -- Belizean creole / Genevieve Escure -- The Bay Island English of Honduras / Elissa Warantz -- Nicaragua's Miskito Coast creole english / John Holm -- The creoles of Costa Rica and Panama / Anita Herzfeld -- Creoles of the off-shore islands: Providencia, San Andres and the Caymans / William Washabaugh |
| Summary |
This volume is about the Anglophone creoles to be found on the Caribbean coast of Central America (Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama), and its offshore islands (Providencia, San Andrés and the Caymans) . The study of these Anglophone varieties is comparatively recent and based on current field work from Belize to Panama. One of the interesting features that emerges is the tentative map of diachronic and synchronic relationsships among the Anglophone creoles of the Caribbean, as illustrated partly by the lexicon and partly by grammatical constructions. The studies in this book are |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-183) |
| Notes |
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| Subject |
Creole dialects, English -- Caribbean Area
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English language -- Dialects -- Caribbean Area
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General.
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Creole dialects, English
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English language -- Dialects
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Language and languages
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Quelle
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Engelse creooltalen.
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| SUBJECT |
Caribbean Area -- Languages
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| Subject |
Caribbean Area
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Zentralamerika
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Mittelamerika
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Englisch.
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Kreolisch-Englisch.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Holm, John A.
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Escure, Geneviève.
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| ISBN |
9789027286697 |
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9027286698 |
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