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English World-WideVol. 10:1 (1989) ► pp.149–154
Book review
. Dimensions of a Creole Continuum: History, Texts and Linguistic Analysis of Guyanese Creole. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987. xix + 340 pp. $42.50 hb.
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