LINGUIST List 15.2235

Thu Aug 5 2004

Books: Sociolinguistics: Hackert

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    Message 1: Urban Bahamian Creole: Hackert

     Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 14:18:03 -0400 (EDT)
    From: paul <paulbenjamins.com>
    Subject: Urban Bahamian Creole: Hackert




    Title: Urban Bahamian Creole Subtitle: System and variation Series Title: Varieties of English Around the World G32

    Publication Year: 2004 Publisher: John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/ http://www.benjamins.nl/

    Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=VEAW%20G32

    Author: Stephanie Hackert, University of Regensburg

    Hardback: ISBN: 9027248923, Pages: xiv, 256 pp., Price: EURO 105.00

    Abstract:

    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-�-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.

    Lingfield(s): Dialectology Pidgins & Creoles Sociolinguistics

    Subject Language: Bahamian Creole English (Language Code: BAH) Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)

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