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Review of Exploring the Boundaries of Caribbean Creole Languages
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Review of Exploring the Boundaries of Caribbean Creole Languages. Editors: Hazel Simmons-McDonald and Ian Robertson. Jamaica etc: University of the West Indies Press,
This volume is a tribute to Pauline Christie, a Caribbean linguist who has and continues to make valuable contributions to the study of Creole languages. It begins with tributes by the late Robert Le Page, which chronicles Christie's contributions to the field, and the late Fredric Cassidy, in the form of a poem "Memory o...
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Defining Creole
Anthropological Quarterly
; John McWhorter, Defining Creole. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005, 435 pp. In Defining Creole, John McWhorter examines what a creole language is and what linguistic creolization entails. The term creole, which has become quite popular in anthropological literature and in literary and
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Degrees of restructuring in creole languages
Caribbean Quarterly
; Degrees of restructuring in creole languages [Creole Language Library 22], edited by Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh & Edgar W Schneider. Amsterdam/Philadelphia John Benjamins, 2000. pp492. Theme & organisation Many of the 18 chapters in this volume, almost all originally presented at a 1998
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Degrees of restructuring in creole languages [Creole Language Library 22]
Caribbean Quarterly
; Degrees of restructuring in creole languages [Creole Language Library 22], edited by Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh & Edgar W Schneider. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins, 2000. pp492. Theme & organisation Many of the 18 chapters in this volume, almost all originally presented at a 1998
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Breaking down the language barriers.(News)
The Birmingham Post (England)
; Byline: Campbell Docherty Social Affairs Reporter The education system has to accept Jamaican Creole as a vibrant and valid language and not merely 'broken English' if black British children are to achieve success, a Birmingham conference heard yesterday. Prof Gus John, an education consultant and
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Creoles, pidgins, and sundry languages: essays in honor of Pieter Seuren(1).
Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences
; Readers familiar with Pieter Seuren's work in theoretical linguistics may be somewhat surprised to find an issue of Linguistics in his honor entirely devoted to creoles, pidgins and sundry(2) languages. After all, this is an area he has worked in only occasionally, although the bibliography below
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Metaphors of incommensurability
Journal of American Folklore
; The idea of creolization as a creative cultural process following the meeting of unrelated cultures is a centuries-old folk concept, one developed and fought over primarily in the arena of African and European contact in the Americas. Renewed interest in the idea among social scientists and various
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(book review)
Africa
; ... and its empirical orientation it is an exemplary study. The first chapter discusses methodology and terminology, provides some maps of relevant languages and lists acknowledgements. Thereafter Parkvall discusses phonological (chapter 3), grammatical (chapter ...
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Bible translated into endangered language
Charleston Daily Mail
; Text preserves Gullah, oral dialect of West African slaves who lived on the southeast coastline ST. HELENA ISLAND, S.C. - More than a quarter century after the laborious work began, the New Testament has finally been translated into Gullah, the creole language spoken by slaves and their descendants
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Parallel Space but Disparate Usage: Negotiating Language Use in a Bilingual Society
Caribbean Quarterly
; As children my sister and I lived with our parents on a government agricultural station in rural Jamaica. The nearest playmates lived over three miles away. We were sent at ages seven and nine to a boarding school then staffed with mostly expatriate teachers from England. I can still hear the
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Chimps Are Us
The Washington Post
; THE THIRD CHIMPANZEE By Jared Diamond HarperCollins. 407 pp. $25 JARED DIAMOND is an essayist of rare talent. He is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, where, breaking out of the usual constraints of disciplinary barriers, he has achieved distinction in physiology and ecology.
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