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Language issues in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines /

Languages of the Caribbean are fascinating and have been studied extensively. It is a particularly fertile ground for the study of pidgins and creoles and the interplay of language and culture and society. However, the languages of St Vincent and the Grenadines have not received the comprehensive at...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Prescod, Paula
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015]
Colección:Varieties of English around the world. General series ; v. 51.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Sociohistorical and linguistic account of St Vincent and the Grenadines / Paula Prescod & Adrian Fraser
  • The fate of the local in light of the global: Analysis of variation in the use of preverbal markers in Bequia Creole / Agata Daleszynska
  • Subject and object pronoun use in Bequia (St Vincent and the Grenadines) / Miriam Meyerhoff & James A. Walker
  • A she gi me words; well me gi she back de change: the reframing of stigmatized talk by everyday women-of-words in St Vincent / Elizabeth Fortenbery
  • The distribution of diagnostic features in English-lexified contact languages: Vincentian / Andrei A. Avram
  • Creole reflexes of do: Zeroing in on tense, aspect and modality in Vincentian Creole / Paula Prescod
  • Languages in St vincent and the Grenadines: an annotated bibliography / Donna E. Cromer.