Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean (Varieties of English Around the World)

343 Pages·2000·2.09 MB·English

by  Michael Aceto

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ContactEnglishesoftheEasternCaribbean
Varieties of English Around the World
GeneralEditor
EdgarW.Schneider
DepartmentofEnglish&AmericanStudies
UniversityofRegensburg
Universitätsstraße31
D-93053REGENSBURG
Germany
[email protected]
EditorialAssistants
AlexanderKautzsch,MagnusHuber(Regensburg)
EditorialBoard
LaurieBauer(Wellington);ManfredGörlach(Cologne);
RajendMesthrie(Capetown);PeterTrudgill(Fribourg);
WaltWolfram(Raleigh,NC)
GeneralSeries
VolumeG30
ContactEnglishesoftheEasternCaribbean
EditedbyMichaelAcetoandJeffreyP.Williams
Contact Englishes of the Eastern
Caribbean
Editedby
Michael Aceto
EastCarolinaUniversity
Jeffrey P. Williams
ClevelandStateUniversity
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Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindexes.
1.Englishlanguage--CaribbeanArea.2.Englishlanguage--Variation-
-CaribbeanArea.3.Creoledialects,English--CaribbeanArea.4.Languagesin
contact--CaribbeanArea.5.CaribbeanArea--Languages.I.Aceto,Michael.II.
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For
Ian F. Hancock,
mentor and friend.
Yanko,
Thanks for showing us the way and
making the path big enough for us to follow.

Contents
Map ix
Preface xi
Introduction xiii
Michael Aceto and JeŸrey P. Williams
Deªning ethnic varieties in the Bahamas: Phonological accommodation
in black and white enclave communities 1
Becky Childs, JeŸrey Reaser, and Walt Wolfram
The grammatical features of TMA auxiliaries in Bahamian Creole 29
Helean McPhee
English in the Turks and Caicos islands: A look at Grand Turk 51
Cecilia Cutler
Language variety in the Virgin Islands: Plural markings 81
Robin Sabino, Mary Diamond, and Leah Cockcroft
The establishment and perpetuation of Anglophone white enclave
communities in the Eastern Caribbean: The case of Island Harbor,
Anguilla 95
JeŸrey P. Williams
What are Creole languages? An alternative approach to the
Anglophone Atlantic World with special emphasis on Barbudan
Creole English 121
Michael Aceto
Language variation and language use among teachers in Dominica 141
Beverley Bryan and Rosalind Burnette
viii Contents
An “English Creole” that isn’t: On the sociohistorical origins and
linguistic classiªcation of the vernacular English in St. Lucia 155
Paul B. Garrett
The Carriacou Shakespeare Mas’: Linguistic creativity in a Creole
community 211
Joan M. Fayer
Creole English on Carriacou: A sketch and some implications 227
Ronald Kephart
Barbadian lects: Beyond Meso 241
Gerard Van Herk
Eastern Caribbean suprasegmental systems: A comparative view, with
particular reference to Barbadian, Trinidadian, and Guyanese 265
David SutcliŸe
References 297
Index 317
Map
The Caribbean Basin
map courtesy of http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/americas/caribbean.gif