Publications

Publication details [#34777]

Winer, Lise. 1989. Review of $Dimensions of a Creole continuum: History, texts, and linguistic analysis of Guyanese Creole. Language Problems and Language Planning 13 (1) : 82–85.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

creole | history | language acquisition | sociolinguistics | text analysis

Language as a subject

Creole, Guyanese

Place, Publisher

University of Texas

ISBN

0272-2690

Journal DOI

10.1075/lplp

Review of

Rickford, John R. 1987. Dimensions of a Creole continuum: History, texts, and linguistic analysis of Guyanese Creole. Stanford University Press.

Annotation

This book presents a sociolinguistic history of Guyanese Creole, dealing with issues as language acquisition, language variation, language standardization, language planning and education.