Date: 26-Aug-2009 From: Daniel Davies <ddaviescambridge.org> Subject: Dictionary of Jamaican English: Cassidy, Le Page (Eds) E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Dictionary of Jamaican English
Published: 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
http://us.cambridge.org
Editor: F. G. Cassidy
Editor: R. B. Le Page
Paperback: ISBN: 9780521118408 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 28.99
Paperback: ISBN: 9780521118408 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 45.00
Abstract:
This is the second edition of the authoritative Dictionary of Jamaican English, first published in 1967. This edition includes a greatly extended supplement and offers a systematic indexing of the extent to which the lexis is shared with other Caribbean countries: Surinam, Guyana, Trinidad, Barbados, Nicaragua and Belize. The method and plan of the Dictionary are basically those of the Oxford English Dictionary, but oral sources have been extensively tapped in addition to detailed coverage of literature published in or about Jamaica since 1655. A great deal of care has been taken to trace the etymologies not only of English, Scots and Irish but also of African, Portuguese and Spanish, French, Amerindian, general sea-faring and other words. The Dictionary is thus a mine of information about the Caribbean and its dialects, about the history of English and its dialects, about Creole languages and about general linguistic processes.
General introduction; Bibliography; Dictionaries and glossaries cited; Abbreviations; Linguistic Introduction: The Historical Phonology of Jamaican English; Dictionary of Jamaican English; Supplement.
Linguistic Field(s):
Historical Linguistics
Lexicography
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