Peter L. Patrick
List of John Benjamins publications for which Peter L. Patrick plays a role.
Book series
ISSN 0172-7362
Title
Urban Jamaican Creole: Variation in the Mesolect
Peter L. Patrick
[Varieties of English Around the World, G17] 1999. xx, 329 pp.
Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Articles
2017. Number marking in Jamaican Patwa. Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas: In honor of John V. Singler, Cutler, Cecelia, Zvjezdana Vrzić and Philipp Angermeyer (eds.), pp. 275–304
Variation is examined in marking of number on plural nouns in mesolectal Jamaican Patwa (JP). Earlier claims for grammatical/functional principles constraining variation are found wanting. Two corpora are analyzed. I provide a taxonomy of surface structures which map reliably onto the level of… read more | Chapter
1997. Style and register in Jamaican Patwa. Englishes around the World: Studies in honour of Manfred Görlach, Schneider, Edgar W. (ed.), pp. 41 ff.
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1996. The urbanization of creole phonology: variation and change in Jamaican (KYA). Towards a Social Science of Language: Papers in honor of William Labov, Guy, Gregory R., Crawford Feagin, Deborah Schiffrin and John Baugh (eds.), pp. 329 ff.
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