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Language Issues in Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesEdited by Paula Prescod
[Varieties of English Around the World G51] 2015
► pp. 165–180
Languages in St Vincent and the Grenadines
An annotated bibliography
Languages of the Caribbean are fascinating and have been studied extensively. It is a particularly fertile ground for the study of pidgins and creoles and the interplay of language and culture and society. However, the languages of St Vincent and the Grenadines have not received the comprehensive attention they deserve. Because the work accomplished has been published in a wide variety of sources the literature is difficult to locate. Despite the existence of Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (the primary bibliographic resource in the field of linguistics) the linguistics literature is often found in other sources. In addition, the literature of the subfield of pidgins and creoles is even more scattered and harder to find. There is no comprehensive compilation of literature on the languages of St Vincent & the Grenadines. The classic A bibliography of pidgin and creole languages (Reinecke, John E. et al. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1975) has never been updated. Keywords: creoles; language contact; varieties of English; bibliography
Published online: 12 February 2015
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The bibliography
The bibliography
A study on the sociolinguistics of gossip (or commess), uses data from Richland Park, St Vincent
Abrahams, Roger D.
This paper explores the language learned and used in one Afro-American peasant community on St Vincent
Abrahams, Roger D.
The article investigates the 'Wake' by looking closely at the content features of riddles and stories told in Richland Park, St Vincent
Abrahams, Roger D.
The discussion includes 62 riddles told one night during a wake, in Richland Park, St Vincent
Abrahams, Roger D. & Bauman, Richard
An analysis of speech behavior among the Afro-American peasants of St Vincent, British West Indies, is provided, focusing on the tea meeting, one of the most popular performance events on the island
Aceto, Michael
Discusses specific need for more description of undocumented English-derived Creoles of the Americas, including St Vincent and the Grenadines
Aceto, Michael
Occasional use of examples from St Vincent
Aceto, Michael
Specific data for St Vincent & the Grenadines included (pp. 307-8) in the general discussion and analysis
Aceto, Michael
No special section on St Vincent & the Grenadines, yet data from the language included in discussion and analysis
Aceto, Michael
Surveys English-derived Creoles of the Caribbean, including the island of St Vincent. Provides a general description of phonology, morphology, and syntax
Allsopp, Richard
The author adds 6 new ways of expansion (building on Ian Hancock's 12: coining, incoining/blending, calquing, semantic extension, semantic shift, convergence, divergence, back formation, tautology, tonalizing, reduplication, adoption): misascription, functional shift, folk etymology, code overlap, attraction, and free-compounding. Examples from St Vincent are used (pp. 91, 101, 105)
Comprehensive dictionary covering all varieties of English in the Caribbean, including St Vincent & the Grenadines (lists the numerous specific informants/advisors, p. xv)
Avram, Andrei A.
Phonological, lexical, & grammatical features from nine Atlantic English Creoles: Antiguan, Bajan, Gullah, Guyanese, Jamaican, Kittitian (St Kitts), Krio, Surinam, and St Vincent are compared and analyzed
Baker, Philip
St Vincent Creole is one of the nine Atlantic English Creoles (AEC) used in the analysis. Also reviews earlier work on affinities among the AEC's
Bakker, Peter, Daval‐Markussen, Aymeric, Parkvall, Mikael & Plag, Ingo
A typological study of 33 Caribbean English Creole, including St Vincent
Focuses on discourse-language as social practice in communities in the Caribbean (including St Vincent) and among Fiji Indians
Breton, Raymond
Breton lived among the Dominican Caribs from 1635-1640 and compiled this dictionary; includes language/words from St Vincent
Carlson, Paul E.
Discusses formality and informality in language used in the village of Stubbs, St Vincent
Carmichael, Mrs. A.C.
1833 Domestic Manners and Social Condition of the White, Coloured and Negro Population of the West Indies. London: Whittaker, Treacher, 2 Vols. (Accessed from Sabin Americana. Gale, Cengage Learning. University of New Mexico. 14 March 2013). http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/Sabin?af=RN&ae=CY3807678292&srchtp=a&ste=14
One of the earliest published works that includes coverage of linguistic phenomena in St Vincent
Carney, William
Students from St Vincent are included in the sample used in this study on language use
Daleszynska, Agata
Paper presented. No abstract or paper found online or in print as of 3/14/2013
Daleszynska, Agata
2009 Apparent time changes in Bequia Creole: Evidence for dialect levelling. In New Ways of Analyzing Variation 38. 22-25 October 2009. Ottawa, Canada. 37-38. http://www.sociolinguistics.uottawa.ca/nwav38/abstracts/NWAV38%282009%29abstracts.pdf
Focuses on dialect leveling, by analyzing the alternation between bare verbs and inflected verbs among younger speakers of Bequian Creole
Daleszynska, Agata
2010 What’s gender got to do with it? Investigating the effect of gender and place on / t, d / deletion in Bequia. In
The Proceedings of the Summer School of Sociolinguistics
. 14-20 June 2010. The University of Edinburgh. http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/sssocio/proceedings/Agata.pdf
Word final /t,d/ use by adolescents in Bequia is examined
Daleszynska, Agata
2011a And them people bin live so happy: On the function of preverbal bin in Bequia and its role in language change. In
Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics Winter Conference
. 7-8 January 2011. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Abstract on p. 169 of Conference Handbook.https://files.nyu.edu/jpw287/public/LSA%202011%20Handbook.pdf
The preverbal marker bin and its place in the past tense of Bequian Creole is explored
Daleszynska, Agata
2011b Are in-betweens useful for variationist research? A perspective from Bequia Creole. In New Ways of Analyzing Variation 38. 22-25 October 2009. Ottawa, Canada. 37-38.http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk.libproxy.unm.edu/research/glic/Daleszynska1Feb
This paper focuses on a group of young speakers of Bequian Creole who are outside the sociolinguistic community norms
Daval-Markussen, Aymeric & Bakker, Peter
This paper provides a classification of English-based Creoles using 33 languages, including St Vincent, by looking at a selection of lexical and typological features encoded as binary pairs
Dubrow, Eric H.
Uses data from a study on St Vincent, including discussion of language use
Duncan, Ebenezer
Includes discussion of the use of non-standard English and the perceived importance of changing to the use of Standard English
Edwards, Esther J.
This volume has 17 poems, as well as an extensive vocabulary section of nearly 900 entries
Fortenbery, Elizabeth C.
1998 Women, Language, and Respect in Rural St Vincent and the Grenadines. PhD dissertation, University of Washington.
An ethnographic study of the language practices of primarily rural lower-class women on St Vincent. With fieldwork done in 1992-1993, this work explores the personal, social, and cultural significance of women's voices engaged in everyday talk
Foster, Byron
In covering various rituals describes some of the languages used
Garrett, Paul B.
2003 An ‘English Creole’ that isn’t: On the sociohistorical origins and linguistic classification of the vernacular English of St Lucia. In Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean [Varieties of English around the World G30], Aceto, Michael & Jeffrey P. Williams (eds), 155-210. Philadelphia PA: John Benjamins. 

Mentions St Vincent Creole while discussing and contrasting the language of St Lucia
Goldsmith, Daena
Looks at five different cultural systems, including St Vincent, in this comparative analysis of the functions of gossip
Gonsalves, Rennie
2007 Investigating the semantics-semiotics interface through textual analysis. LACUS Forum 33: 275-283. http://www.lacus.org/volumes/33/gonsalves_r.pdf
A detailed semiotic analysis of a story related to the author by a Vincentian Carib
Gonzalez, Nancie L.
Discusses the history of Black Caribs, including their time on St Vincent, including coverage of languages spoken
Gonzalez, Nancie L.
While primarily about the Garifuna after exodus to the continent, does discuss history on St Vincent & the Grenadines - including language
Gonzalez, Nancie L.
The linguistic situation is included in the discussion of the relations among different groups on St Vincent during the Carib Wars during 1795-96
Granberry, Julian & Vescelius, Gary S.
This volume is "oriented toward the analysis of language forms not for their own sake but, instead, as a pragmatic tool toward elucidation of the physical, ethnic, and linguistic origins of their users" (p. xi). Includes coverage of the language of St Vincent
Brief discussion of the complicated situation contrasting the Carib-identifying people with the Afro-American majority on St Vincent
Gullick, Charles J.M.R.
Extensive coverage of the history of the Carib people on St Vincent from the earliest known history through the 1970’s. Language in all its aspects is a part of this history
Hancock, Ian
Extensive discussion and comparison of syntactic data from 33 English-based Creoles contribute to a new classification of these creoles. St Vincent is included
Hofman, Corinne L. & Carlin, Eithne B.
Among people and languages covered is Eneri/Island Carib, spoken on the Windward Islands
Holbrook, David Joseph
2012 The Classification of the English-lexifier Creole Languages Spoken in Grenada, Guyana, St Vincent and Tobago Using a Comparison of the Markers of Some Key Grammatical Features: A Tool for Determining the Potential to Share and/or Adapt Literary Development Materials. Dallas TX: SIL International. http://www.sil.org/silepubs/Pubs/928474543481/e-Book_25_Holbrook_final.pdf
This study classifies the four English-lexifier Creole languages spoken in Grenada, Guyana, St Vincent, and Tobago. Based on his 2006 PhD dissertation, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad
Holm, John
Provides a brief history of the island and gives language examples
Section 10.3 covers Eastern Caribbean Creole English, with history and language examples of St Vincent
Brief mention of words from St Vincent in this overview of creoles in the Caribbean
Katz, Phillip S.
Sociolinguistic discussion focusing in on stories and accusations relating to thievery, or 'tiefs'
Langworthy, Geneva
2000 Language planning in a trans-national speech community. In Indigenous languages across the community. Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Stabilizing Indigenous Languages 7th, 11-14 May 2000. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/jar/ILAC/ILAC_5.pdf
Language revitalization and planning efforts in Garifuna communities in Central America, St Vincent, and the United States are described
Le Page, Robert B.
Discusses the dialects of 12 areas, including St Vincent
Le Page, Robert B. & Tabouret-Keller, Andrée
The language of St Vincent has a significant presence in this work. Chapter 3 analyzes results of a grammar questionnaire given to speakers in Jamaica, St Vincent and Grenada. Within the section on Disputed settlements and their outcomes is a piece on St Vincent: A boundary case
Covers mass media and languages used in the Commonwealth Caribbean, including St Vincent and the Grenadines
Lewis, M. Paul
(ed.) 2009 Languages of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=VC
The classic reference work for languages of the world, includes St Vincent & the Grenadines
Meyerhoff, Miriam
An analysis of dialect variability in the use of Bequian English on the island of Bequia
Meyerhoff, Miriam
A sociolinguistic exploration of some gender and language characteristics on Bequia
Meyerhoff, Miriam
2011 Passing for different: The importance of hidden differences in language variation (paper presented). In
The construction of local identities through culture and language in the Dutch province of Limburg. Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences Workshop
. 1-3 December 2011. Wassenaar, Nl. https://www.meertens.knaw.nl/cms/files/NIAS2011/NIAS-abstractMeyerhoff.pdf
Reviews data from ongoing work on Bequian English that shows that in spite of a superficial simplicity in shared patterns, Bequian English is different from Standard English
Meyerhoff, Miriam & Walker, James A.
The absence of BE is examined across three ethnically distinct village communities on the small island of Bequia, with particular attention to speakers - one in each village - who have lived in urban settings in the UK or Canada and returned to the island
Meyerhoff, Miriam & Walker, James A.
Phonological variation in Bequia among two speech communities, ‘urban sojourners’ – Bequians who have spent an extended period overseas and their stay-at-home peers, is analyzed
Meyerhoff, Miriam & Walker, James A.
Examines language use in Bequia, focusing on three communities. Quantitative analysis of three aspects of the grammatical system that exhibit variation: absence of the verb BE, verbal negation, and tense-aspect marking are provided
Meyerhoff, Miriam & Walker, James A.
Designed for a wide audience, this book surveys the commonalities and differences in the ways people talk on the island of Bequia. It starts with a sociohistorical chapter and then moves on to chapters dealing with phonology and grammar
Meyerhoff, Miriam & Walker, James A.
Investigates the alternation between Standard English-like existentials ('there is/there's/there are') and Caribbean variants (e.g. 'it have' or 'it get') in four villages on the island of Bequia
Meyerhoff, Miriam & Walker, James A.
Forthcoming. Variation in existentials on Bequia (St Vincent and the Grenadines): Grammatical or lexical? In Theoretical Perspectives on Intra-individual Variation and its Empirical Study, Jeffrey K. Parrott (ed.) Amsterdam John Benjamins
Using a corpus of Bequian English, the question of whether agreement in existential constructions is best viewed as grammatical or lexical is analyzed
Meyerhoff, Miriam, Walker, James A. & Daleszynska, Agata
2009 Marking the past and the present in Bequia (conference handout). In New Ways of Analyzing Variation 38. 22-25 October 2009. Ottawa, Canada.http://www.yorku.ca/jamesw/documents/NWAV38_Handout.pdf
Investigates tense in Bequia
Morth, Grace E.
Describes the rules and formats followed in the transfer of information/mechanisms of social control. Research conducted in Georgetown
Mühleisen, Susanne
A few of the examples used in the discussion are from St Vincent (199)
Mulcahy, F. David
Primarily from data collected in the inland community of Villo [sic] Point, discusses word usage and definitions of plants and their uses
Nero, Shondel J.
St Vincent is one of the islands included in this report on students’ linguistic self-perception, among other findings
Parkvall, Mikael
Extensive review of substrate features in Atlantic Creoles, based on analysis of 42 creoles and 168 African languages. Data from St Vincent are grouped in with other Windward Islands
Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews
Stories from the Grenadines are on pp. 71-95 with 10 stories from St Vincent on pp. 72-112
Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews
Included in the riddles from St Vincent are 24 in English (pp. 375-377) and 11 in French (pp. 466-467)
Partridge, Andrew
2009 Charting the vowel space of Bequian Creole. MA thesis, University of Edinburgh.
Provides a phonemic inventory, resulting from acoustic analyses of vowels and consonants using both existing data and newly collected data
Plag, Ingo
Investigates word formation in creoles through the lens of second language acquisition. Includes data from St Vincent
Poussa, Patricia
1990 A contact-universals origin for periphrastic do, with special consideration of OE-Celtic contact. In Papers from the 5th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Cambridge, 6-9 April 1987 : Dedicated to the Memory of James Peter Thorne (1933-1988), Sylvia Adamson (ed.), 407-434. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 

Data from St Vincent are used briefly (p. 412)
Prescod, Paula
2001 Vincentian speech: A conservative creole? Paper presented at the
Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics Conference
. 26-27 June, University of Coimbra, Portugal. http://www.fcvnet.net/~paula/papers.html
Vincentian Creole data, collected from radio, poetry and prose, are analyzed
Prescod, Paula
2002 Indefinite pronouns in Vincentian Creole and English: A comparative approach. Paper presented at the
14th Biennial Conference of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics
. 14-17 August, UWI Trinidad.http://www.fcvnet.net/~paula/papers.html
The three major series of indefinite pronouns in English and Vincentian Creole are compared through an examination of their inventory and distribution. Despite superficial similarity, fundamental differences between the two languages are found
Prescod, Paula
2003 Just what do VinC indefinite pronouns entail? Paper presented at the
Annual Meeting of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics
, January 2003. Atlanta GA. http://www.fcvnet.net/~paula/papers.html
The uses and functions of the three major series of indefinite pronouns in Vincentian Creole are investigated by looking closely at their inventory and distribution
Prescod, Paula
Demonstrates that stress and pitch enable syntactic differentiation in Vincentian Creole
Prescod, Paula
2006b Towards a writing system for Vincentian Creole. Searchlight: Weekly newspaper of St Vincent and the Grenadines. Article published in 3 parts from 17 February – 3 March 2006. http://www.fcvnet.net/~paula/papers.html
Article written for the general public proposing a writing system for Vincentian
Prescod, Paula
Explores derivational processes in Vincentian Creole and demonstrates that while speakers use these processes much like English, they also use distinctly different combination forms
Prescod, Paula
2008b Sentential negation and the distribution of n-words in Atlantic English-based Creoles. Paper presented at the
Society for Caribbean Linguistics Conference: Usage, Application and Development of the Languages of the Caribbean and the Guianas
, 28-31 July, Cayenne, French Guiana. Proceedings - Society for Caribbean Linguistics CD-Rom. http://www.fcvnet.net/~paula/papers.html
This study examines how some English-based Creoles position negative particles, in particular in utterances marked for tense, mood, and aspect
Prescod, Paula
2008c The syntax of negation and indefinite pronouns in Standard English and Caribbean Creole varieties. Paper presented at the
European Society for the Study of English Conference
. 22-26 August, University of Aarhus, Denmark. http://www.fcvnet.net/~paula/papers.html
The contrastive behavior of sentential negation and the distribution of indefinite pronouns in Standard English and English-lexified Caribbean varieties are examined. Both systems treat negation differently
Prescod, Paula
2008d What does and doesn’t do for creoles: Zeroing in on aspect and negation.
Invited paper: NORMS Workshop on Auxiliaries, Mood and Modality
, 17-18 September, NTNU Trondheim University, Norway.http://www.fcvnet.net/~paula/papers.html
Lexical and grammatical features of English-based Creoles are examined
Prescod, Paula
The classification of pidgins and creoles in terms of language complexity is discussed. Vincentian is one of the languages
Prescod, Paula
A comprehensive, book-length description of the noun phrase in the English-lexified Creole of St Vincent and the Grenadines. This work is the translation of the original French version of the author’s 2004 PhD thesis, which was also published in 2006. (cf. below)
Prescod, Paula
2006 Une description grammaticale du syntagme nominal dans le créole anglophone de St-Vincent-et-les-Grenadines. PhD dissertation, Université Paris III. Lille: Presses de l’ANRT.
Describes a word-formation process in Vincentian Creole, not typically considered relevant to word formation
Prescod, Paula
2012 Morphosyntactic features in Vincentian Creole. In The Electronic World Atlas of Variation in English: Grammar, Bernd Kortmann (ed.). Munich & Berlin: Max Planck Digital Library in cooperation with Mouton de Gruyter. http://www.ewave-atlas.org
Interactive tool that provides a wide range of morphosyntactic phenomena on varieties of English. This chapter is dedicated exclusively to the Vincentian variety
Prescod, Paula
Provides a wide range of morphosyntactic phenomena on varieties of English including this full-length chapter on the Vincentian variety
Prescod, Paula
2013 Vincentian Creole structure dataset. In Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online, Ch. 7, Susanne Michaelis, Philippe Maurer, Martin Haspelmath & Magnus Huber (eds). Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. http://apics-online.info/apics/contributions/7
The Atlas provides 130 world maps of structural linguistic features of 76 pidgins and creoles. The printed version contains a full length chapter providing sociohistorical background, the sociolinguistic situation, phonological, morphological and structural features of Vincentian Creole. The online version also contains sound files of each language
Prescod, Paula
The Atlas provides 130 world maps of structural linguistic features of 76 pidgins and creoles. The printed version contains a full length chapter providing sociohistorical background, the sociolinguistic situation, phonological, morphological and structural features of Vincentian Creole
Prescod, Paula & Fraser, Adrian
The demolinguistic dynamics between the Arawak and Carib Indians and succeeding settlers in St Vincent & the Grenadines are explored
Ralston, Lenore D.
Summarizes the history of the island and then discusses whether or not St Vincent has an English-based or a French-based creole
A wide-ranging discussion of the numerous varieties of English used in the West Indies, including some examples from St Vincent
Roberts, Peter
One of the recurring themes in this volume is the many languages used on the islands and their sociolinguistic import
Rubenstein, Hymie
An ethnographic account of a "large coastal village" on St Vincent. Occasional use of nonstandard English while discussing various activities. Based upon fieldwork done in 1969-1971, 1980, and 1985
Schneider, Edgar W.
1992 Negation patterns and the cline of creoleness in English-oriented varieties of the Caribbean. In Studies in Caribbean Language, II: Papers from the Ninth Biennial Conference of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics, Pauline Christie, et al. (eds), 2014-227. St Augustine, Trinidad: University of West Indies Press.
Compares negation patterns in numerous creoles, including St Vincent, to make the claim that there is a "cline of creoleness", i.e., a language continuum
Occasional mention of language used by island tribes
Sidnell, Jack
Includes Bequian Creole among languages used for analysis
Sidnell, Jack
Bequian Creole is among the languages used for this analysis
Sidnell, Jack
Discusses the history of relations between conversation analysis and linguistic anthropology, using the organization of other-initiated repair in two Caribbean communities, one of which is Bequia
Sidnell, Jack
For analysis of "if"-prefaces repeats, using Bequian Creole as part of the data, shows that Caribbean English Creoles have apparently unique possibilities for social action. Using data from Bequian Creole, explores repairs in referencing persons
Singler, John Victor
Vincentian is among nine Atlantic English-based Creoles compared in a section on cross-creole similarities. Shows that five of the Caribbean Creoles pattern together: St Kitts, Barbados, Antigua, Guyana, and St Vincent
Snow, Peter
St Vincent is grouped in with other Windward Islands in the analysis
Stewart, Harold
1993 A Case Study of a Methods Program in English as a Second Language in St Vincent, West Indies. PhD dissertation, University of Alberta.
The purpose of this case study was to reveal the impact of an English as a second language methods course on the professional lives of a group of teachers from St Vincent, West Indies
Taylor, Douglas
Survey of languages of the West Indies, including brief mention of St Vincent and Island Carib
Discusses the place names of Carib origin. The work is based on maps and other documents and some direct fieldwork
Taylor, Douglas
Discusses many of the languages of the Caribbean, in particular, a community in the Eastern Caribbean island of St Vincent
Comprehensive coverage of the many languages of the West Indies, mostly an historical account
Trudgill, Peter
Includes St Vincent & the Grenadines in the discussion of Caribbean Englishes
Trudgill, Peter
Chapter 3 “On Anguilla and the Pickwick Papers” includes examples from St Vincent
Vincentian Creole English: A Language of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Ethnologue report for language code svc. Most similar to Guyana, Tobago. It exists in a continuum with Standard English, with speech in the Capital of Kingstown most similar to Standard English (the acrolect) and that of the Island Carib descendants who live north of the Dry River being the least similar to Standard English
Walker, James A. & Meyerhoff, Miriam
Zero copula is analyzed on the Eastern Caribbean island of Bequia, where a mesolectal creole variety coexists with a nonstandard English variety
Walker, James A. & Meyerhoff, Miriam
While exploring the issues involved in the individual vs. the community, the English spoken on the island of Bequia (St Vincent and the Grenadines) is used
Walker, James A. & Meyerhoff, Miriam
Forthcoming; to appear in 2015. Bequia English. In The Lesser-known Varieties of English: Further Case Studies, Jeffrey P. Williams, Edgar W. Schneider, Peter Trudgill & Daniel Schreier (eds) Cambridge CUP
Provides a description of Bequian English
Walker, James A. & Sidnell, Jack
Despite its small size (only 7 sq. miles) there is a surprising linguistic diversity on the island. Examines the variable negation in three communities. The authors conclude that there are multiple coexistent systems rather than a highly variable linguistic system
Williams, Jeffrey Payne
Describes original and offshoot settlements, historical to the present, of the Irish, Scots, and English on Barbados, St Vincent, Bequia, and Saba. Includes details and question on the phonology, morphology, and syntax
Williams, Jeffrey Payne
1987 Anglo-Caribbean English: A Study of its Sociolinguistic History and the Development of its Aspectual Markers. PhD dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin.
A sociolinguistic history of the dialects of Anglo-Caribbean English, including Bequia and St Vincent, is provided. The convergence and reanalysis of form/function relationships within grammar is shown to be one of the outcomes of dialect contact
Williams, Jeffrey Payne
Investigates aspectual markers in the various English-derived Creoles of the Caribbean, including Bequia
Williams, Jeffrey Payne
A description of a continuum of lesser-known varieties of English spoken in small, relatively isolated enclave white communities in the West Indies is provided. Includes the community of Dorsetshire Hill, St Vincent
Wilson, Carlos Guillermo
While primarily concerning the Garifuna after leaving St Vincent, the chapter does include discussion of the broad linguistic situation on the island prior to leaving
Wilson, Samuel M.
Included in the discussion are mention of the linguistic connections, names for food and cooking, and place names
Winford, Donald
The bulk of the book discusses Jamaican and Guyanese, but does include an interesting chart of the relationships between all of the Caribbean English Creoles
Winford, Donald
Occasional use of data from St Vincent in reviewing evidence of a creole continuum
Young, Virginia Heyer
While language is not the focus, it is not ignored and the study includes the sociolinguistic use of varieties of language and quotes from texts in creole. Based on fieldwork done for six months in 1972, two months in 1984, and two months in 1986