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Urban Bahamian Creole
Stephanie Hackert
其他書名
System and Variation
出版John Benjamins Publishing, 2004
主題Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
ISBN97890272489239027248923
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=oVOn1pI8DsgC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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-à-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.