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Urban Bahamian Creole : system and variation /
This volume, a detailed empirical study of the creole English spoken in the Bahamian capital, Nassau, contributes to our understanding of both urban creoles and tense-aspect marking in creoles. The first part traces the development of a creole in the Bahamas via socio-demographic data and outlines i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, Pa. :
J. Benjamins Pub.,
©2004.
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| Colección: | Varieties of English around the world. General series ;
v. 30. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This volume, a detailed empirical study of the creole English spoken in the Bahamian capital, Nassau, contributes to our understanding of both urban creoles and tense-aspect marking in creoles. The first part traces the development of a creole in the Bahamas via socio-demographic data and outlines its current status and functions vis-à-vis the standard in politics, the media, and education. The linguistic chapters combine typological and variationist methods to describe exhaustively a comprehensive grammatical subsystem, past temporal reference, offering a discourse-based approach to such cont. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 254 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027275134 9027275130 9781588115751 1588115755 1283358301 9781283358309 9027248923 9789027248923 |
| ISSN: | 0172-7362 ; |