Central American English

Central American English

by Escure, Geneviève Holm, John A.

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This volume is about the Anglophone creoles to be found on the Caribbean coast of Central America (Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama), and its offshore islands (Providencia, San Andrés and the Caymans) . The study of these Anglophone varieties is comparatively recent and based on current field work from Belize to Panama. One of the interesting features that emerges is the tentative map of diachronic and synchronic relationsships among the Anglophone creoles of the Caribbean, as il…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Central American English / edited by John Holm ; with contributions by Geneviève Escure [and others].

Summary

This volume is about the Anglophone creoles to be found on the Caribbean coast of Central America (Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama), and its offshore islands (Providencia, San Andrés and the Caymans) . The study of these Anglophone varieties is comparatively recent and based on current field work from Belize to Panama. One of the interesting features that emerges is the tentative map of diachronic and synchronic relationsships among the Anglophone creoles of the Caribbean, as illustrated partly by the lexicon and partly by grammatical constructions. The studies in this book are.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©1983.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):J. Groos
  • Place of Publication:Heidelberg
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©1983.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (184 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9789027286697, 9027286698
  • oclc:ocn710044838
  • LC Classification:PM7874.C27
  • Dewey Decimal:427/.9728

Table of Contents

Introduction / John Holm -- Belizean creole / Genevieve Escure -- The Bay Island English of Honduras / Elissa Warantz -- Nicaragua's Miskito Coast creole english / John Holm -- The creoles of Costa Rica and Panama / Anita Herzfeld -- Creoles of the off-shore islands: Providencia, San Andres and the Caymans / William Washabaugh.

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Subjects

Anglais (Langue) -- Dialectes -- Antill… Anglais (Langue) -- Dialectes -- Caraïb… Caraïbes (Région) -- Langues Caribbean Area Caribbean Area -- Languages Creole dialects, English Creole dialects, English -- Caribbean A… Engelse creooltalen Englisch English language -- Dialects -- Caribbe… English language / Dialects Kreolisch-Englisch Language and languages LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General Langues créoles (anglaises) -- Antilles… Langues créoles (anglaises) -- Caraïbes… Mittelamerika Quelle ZENTRALAMERIKA

Writers

Escure, Geneviève Holm, John A.

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