TY - JOUR
T1 - The development of aspectual markers in anglo-caribbean english
AU - Williams, Jeffrey P.
N1 - Funding Information:
The following people have provided comments on earlier versions of this article: John Baugh, Ian Hancock, John Rickford, Joel Scherzer, Peter Trudgill, Peggy Williams, Tony Woodbury, and two anonymous JPCL reviewers. None of them should be held responsible for any shortcomings in the present version. Funding for my research in various parts of the Caribbean was given by the Graduate School of the University of Texas, Austin, and the Organization of American States.
PY - 1988/7/18
Y1 - 1988/7/18
N2 - The English dialects spoken by the scattered white minority in the Caribbean are important in that they provide linguistic clues to the nature of the Anglophone component in the development of the Caribbean AnglophoneCreoles. The British dialect sources for aspectual markers in Anglo-Carib-bean English are discussed in the light of the dialect contact and mixingthat was the sociolinguistic product of English colonization. Koineizationin the development of Anglo-Caribbean English is argued for, with suggestions for further research involving Anglo-Caribbean English and theCaribbean Anglophone Creoles.
AB - The English dialects spoken by the scattered white minority in the Caribbean are important in that they provide linguistic clues to the nature of the Anglophone component in the development of the Caribbean AnglophoneCreoles. The British dialect sources for aspectual markers in Anglo-Carib-bean English are discussed in the light of the dialect contact and mixingthat was the sociolinguistic product of English colonization. Koineizationin the development of Anglo-Caribbean English is argued for, with suggestions for further research involving Anglo-Caribbean English and theCaribbean Anglophone Creoles.
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U2 - 10.1075/jpcl.3.2.06wil
DO - 10.1075/jpcl.3.2.06wil
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84969477421
VL - 3
SP - 245
EP - 263
JO - Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
JF - Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
SN - 0920-9034
IS - 2
ER -