Urban Jamaican creole : variation in the mesolect /

A synchronic sociolinguistic study of Jamaican Creole (JC) as spoken in urban Kingston, this work uses variationist methods to closely investigate two key concepts of Atlantic Creole studies: the mesolect, and the creole continuum. One major concern is to describe how linguistic variation patterns w...

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Main Author: Patrick, Peter L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., ©1999.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9789027298539
902729853X
9781556194481
155619448X
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central