John A. Holm

Its Sociolinguistic History and a Comparative Study of Its Lexicon and Syntax

The Creole English of Nicaragua's Miskito Coast

Geneviève Escure

This volume is about the Anglophone creoles to be found on the Caribbean coast of Central America (Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama), and its offshore islands (Providencia, San Andrés and the Caymans) . The study of these Anglophone varieties is comparatively recent and based on current field work from Belize to Panama. One of the interesting features that emerges is the tentative map of diachronic and synchronic relationsships among the Anglophone creoles of the Caribbean, as illustrated partly by the lexicon and partly by grammatical constructions. The studies in this book are based on phonetic transcriptions of speech acts in their social and linguistic context.

Central American English

Francis Byrne

For review see: Peter Bakker, in New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, vol. 70, no. 1 & 2 (1996); p. 190-192.

A Global View of Pidginization and Creolization ; Elected Papers from the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics)

Atlantic Meets Pacific

John Alexander Holm

An overview of the socio-historical development of some one hundred different pidgins and creoles.

John A. Holm

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