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Mon 15 Feb 1993

Books: Creoles

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PIDGINS AND CREOLES

Byrne, Francis & John Holm (eds.) ATLANTIC MEETS PACIFIC
 1992 ix, 464 pp. Cloth. ISBN: 1 55619 165 0 $95.00
 John Benjamins
>internet:70461.1236compuserve.com Pidgins and Creoles
This wide-ranging collection brings together the work of Atlantic creolists
and Pacific Pidginists as well as those studying restructured languages from
Central Africa to Siberia.


Winford, Donald PREDICATION IN CARIBBEAN ENGLISH CREOLES
 1992 viii, 419 pp. Cloth. ISBN: 1 55619 164 2
 $79.00
 John Benjamins
>internet:70461.1236compuserve.com Pidgins and Creoles
This is the first major study of the conservative or basilectal English
Creoles of the Anglophone Caribbean since Bailey's (1966) and Bickerton's
(1975) descriptions of Jamaican and Guyanese Creole respectively.
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