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Caribbean languages : lesser-known varieties

Title
Caribbean languages : lesser-known varieties / edited by Velma Pollard.
Publication
Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©1990.

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Additional Authors
Pollard, Velma.
Description
100 pages; 23 cm
Summary
For review see: Charles E. DeBose, in Journal of pidgin and creole languages, vol. 8, no. 2 (1993); p. 274-277.
Series Statement
International journal of the sociology of language ; 85
Uniform Title
International journal of the sociology of language ; 85.
Subject
  • Creole dialects > Caribbean Area
  • 17.23 multilingual sociolinguistics
  • Creole dialects
  • Language and languages
  • Karibische Sprachen
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Creooltalen
  • Minderheidstalen
  • Language and languages > Caribbean Area
  • Caribbean Area > Languages
  • Caribbean Area
  • Karibische Sprachen
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Trinidad Yoruba: a language of exile / Maureen Warner-Lewis -- The rise and fall of Trinidad Bhojpuri / Peggy Mohan -- The social context of African continuities in Jamaica / Beverley Hall-Alleyne -- Dutch Creole/English Creole distancing: historical and contemporary data considered / Gilbert A. Sprauve -- Some patterns of language use in the period of transition from Dutch to British rule in the Guiana colonies / Ian Robertson -- Language as expression of identity in Dominica / Pauline Christie -- The instrumentalization of St. Lucian / Lawrence D. Carrington -- The speech of the Rastafarians of Jamaica, in the eastern Caribbean: the case of St. Lucia / Velma Pollard.
OCLC
  • ocm22944272
  • 22944272
  • SCSB-1899171
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library