University Press of Florida, 1998. — 193 p. This volume brings together prominent writers from the English, French, Spanish, and Dutch-speaking Caribbean in an examination of creolization and its impact upon the region's literary production. It is especially noteworthy for the broad spectrum of Caribbean nationalities that it includes: writers from Cuba, Curacao, the Dominican...
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2024. — iv, 216 p. — (Studies in Caribbean Languages 6). — ISBN 978-3-96110-496-3. This volume features research papers dealing with creolized and partially restructured language varieties in the wider Caribbean region. Initially conceived of as a conference volume drawing on papers presented at the 2017 Summer conference of the Society for...
Authors: Pauline Christie, R. B. Le Page Publisher: University Press of the West Indies Publication Date: 2001 Number Of Pages: 230 Language: English Professor Robert Le Page was a pioneer in the field of English and Creole linguistics in the Caribbean. This collection of papers in honour of Le Page addresses various topics in the field, pointing out the ways in which Le Page...
Ibis Rouge Editions, 2007. — 738 p. Plus de 15 000 entrées, des milliers d'exemples extraits d'œuvres littéraires créoles anciennes et modernes, des centaines d'expressions idiomatiques, de proverbes et de titim (devinettes), accompagnés de leur traduction en français, tel se présente le tout premier dictionnaire du créole martiniquais. De tous les créoles, il était, en effet,...
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2019. — x, 320 p. — (Studies in Caribbean Languages 4). — ISBN 978-3-96110-151-1. In this thoroughly researched and brilliantly written volume, Sally Delgado opens up vitally important new avenues for the study of the role of marginalized peoples such as sailors and convicts in the emergence of creole languages and other contact varieties of the...
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2019. — vi, 161 p. — (Studies in Caribbean Languages 2). — ISBN 978-3-96110-112-2. This book tackles the divisive question of the Stative/Non-stative distinction by going straight to the root of the lexical items that have been at the heart of this discussion. It provides an analysis of property items (Dual Aspectual Forms) couched in the...
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company Date: 2011 Pages: 282 ISBN10: 9027252599 ISBN13: 978-9027252593 Language: English The study of linguistic variation in the Caribbean has been central to the emergence of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics as an academic field. It has yielded influential theory, such as the (post-)creole continuum or the 'Acts of Identity' models, that has...
Mouton de Gruyter, 1992. — 621 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Documentation [TiLDOC] 7). St. Lucian Creole ( Kweyol ) is a variety of Caribbean French-lexicon Creole spoken by a significant majority of the population of the state of St. Lucia in the Windward group of the Lesser Antilles. A distinctive characteristic of this Kweyol-English/English-Kweyol dictionary is the manner...
John Benjamins Publishing, 2005. — 293 p. — (Varieties of English Around the World G34). Politeness and Face in Caribbean Creoles is the first collection to focus on socio-pragmatic issues in the Caribbean context, including the socio-cultural rules and principles underlying strategic language use. While the Caribbean has long been recognized as a rich and interesting site...
John Benjamins Pub Co, 2002. — 348 p. — (Creole Language Library 24). Creole languages are characteristically associated with a negative image. How has this prestige been formed? And is it as static as the diglossic situation in many anglo-creolophone societies seems to suggest? This volume examines socio-historical and epistemological factors in the prestige formation of...
University of the West Indies Press, 2010. — 244 p. — ISBN 976-640-186-1; ISBN: 976-640-187-X. The contributors to this collection address a range of issues in Caribbean linguistics. At this stage of Caribbean development, it is critical that we have a broader appreciation of the significance of the languages of the region for developing a deeper sense of self and for...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011. — 316 p. — (Creole Language Library 40). Can historically marginalized, threatened languages be saved in the contemporary global era? In relation to the wider postcolonial world, especially the Caribbean, this book focuses on efforts to preserve and promote Lesser Antillean French Creole Kweyol as the national language of Saint Lucia and...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009. — 1072 p. The twin-island nation of Trinidad & Tobago has a complex history that has resulted in a unique English language, shaped by all members of its multi-ethnic community: the original Amerindian inhabitants, the European colonizers, the Africans - enslaved, free, and indentured - as well as the peoples of India, Portugal, and China....
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