Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean
Edited by Michael Aceto and Jeffrey P. Williams
[Varieties of English Around the World, G30] 2003. xx, 322 pp.
Michael Aceto
List of John Benjamins publications for which Michael Aceto plays a role.
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Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
2017 Hickey, 2014. A dictionary of varieties of English Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 32:1, pp. 194–201 | Review
2003 What are Creole languages? An alternative approach to the Anglophone Atlantic World with special emphasis on Barbudan Creole English Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean, Aceto, Michael and Jeffrey P. Williams (eds.), pp. 121–140 | Article
2003 Introduction Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean, Aceto, Michael and Jeffrey P. Williams (eds.), pp. xiii–xx | Miscellaneous
2002 Barbudan Creole English: Its history and some grammatical features English World-Wide 23:2, pp. 223–250 | Article
This article presents some of the core grammatical features of Barbudan Creole English, an Anglophone language that has never been described in the linguistics or creolistics literature. It begins with a historical presentation of Barbuda within the British colonial world, discussing the islands… read more
1999 Looking Beyond Decreolization as an Explanatory Model of Language Change in Creole-Speaking Communities Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 14:1, pp. 93–119 | Article
This paper discusses internally-motivated change as a largely ignored factor in understanding diachrony in creole languages: that is, externally-motivated models — and the most popular of these is certainly decreolization and the related concept of the creole continuum — have been nearly… read more
1998 Review of Bernstein, Nunnally & Sabino (1997): Language Variety in the South Revisited English World-Wide 19:2, pp. 292–302 | Review
1997 Saramaccan Creole origins: Portuguese-derived lexical correspondances and the relexification hypothesis The Structure and Status of Pidgins and Creoles: Including selected papers from meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole linguistics, Spears, Arthur K. and Donald Winford (eds.), pp. 219–240 | Article
1996 Early Saramaccan Syllable Structure: An Analysis of Complex Onsets from Schumann's 1778 Manuscript Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 11:1, pp. 23–44 | Article
This paper presents a diachronic analysis of Saramaccan syllable structure. It examines data from Schumann's 1778 manuscript, and demonstrates that early Saramaccan syllable structure included complex onsets. A case is also made that in the last two centuries, these complex onsets in Saramaccan… read more
1995 Review of Dillard (1992): A history of American English Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 10:1, pp. 203–208 | Review