Urban Jamaican creole : variation in the mesolect /

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A synchronic sociolinguistic study of Jamaican Creole (JC) as spoken in urban Kingston, this work uses variationist methods to closely investigate two key concepts of Atlantic Creole studies: the mesolect, and the creole continuum. One major concern is to describe how linguistic variation patterns w...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Patrick, Peter L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., ©1999.
Series:Varieties of English around the world. General series ; v. 17.
Subjects:
Creole dialects, English > Variation > Jamaica.
Urban dialects > Jamaica > Kingston.
Langues créoles (anglaises) > Variation > Jamaïque.
Dialectes urbains > Jamaïque > Kingston.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General.
Creole dialects, English > Variation
Urban dialects
Engelse creooltalen.
Dialecten.
Taalvariatie.
Jamaica
Jamaica > Kingston
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • URBAN JAMAICAN CREOLE; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; List of Maps; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1 Introduction; CHAPTER 2 The Urban Speech Community of Kingston, Jamaica; CHAPTER 3 Field Methods and Data Analysis; CHAPTER 4 Phonolexical Variation: Palatal Glides; CHAPTER 5 Phonological Variation: Consonant Cluster Simplification; CHAPTER 6 Creole Pre-Verbal Past-Markers; CHAPTER 7 Past-Marking by Verb Inflection; CHAPTER 8 Social Variation in the Veeton Speech Community; References; Index of Language Varieties.

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