Urban Bahamian Creole: System and VariationJohn Benjamins Publishing, 2004 - 254 Seiten This volume, a detailed empirical study of the creole English spoken in the Bahamian capital, Nassau, contributes to our understanding of both urban creoles and tense-aspect marking in creoles. The first part traces the development of a creole in the Bahamas via socio-demographic data and outlines its current status and functions vis-à-vis the standard in politics, the media, and education. The linguistic chapters combine typological and variationist methods to describe exhaustively a comprehensive grammatical subsystem, past temporal reference, offering a discourse-based approach to such controversial categories as the preverbal past marker. The quantitative analysis of variable past inflection, finally, tests not only well-known constraints, such as stativity or social class, but also ethnographically determined ones, such as narrative type. Its results are relevant not only to the study of Caribbean English-lexifier creoles and related varieties, such as African American English, but also to variation and change in urban dialects generally. |
Inhalt
CHAPTER 1 Introduction | 1 |
CHAPTER 2 Methodology | 5 |
CHAPTER 3 Sociohistory and Sociolinguistics | 31 |
Categories Meanings and Uses | 65 |
CHAPTER 5 Past Marking by Verb Inflection | 117 |
CHAPTER 6 Conclusion | 221 |
Appendix | 225 |
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