https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/23330 Wed, 29 Apr 2026 06:40:48 GMT 2026-04-29T06:40:48Z https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/25724 A tale of two dialect regions Sherriah, André Ché This book traces the precise origin of the early English lexical and lexico-phonetic influences in Sranan, an English-based creole spoken in Suriname. Sranan contains "fossilised" linguistic remnants of an early English colonial period. The book discusses whether Sranan’s English influence(s) originated from a single dialect from the general London area, as proposed by Norval Smith in 1987, or whether we are dealing with a composite of dialectal features from all over England. The book introduces a novel replicable methodology for linguistic reconstructions, which combines statistics (in the form of binomial probability), English dialect geography (via use of Orton’s et. al., 1962–1971, Survey of English Dialects, which focuses on traditional regional English dialects across England and Wales), and 17th-century English migration history (compiled from The Complete Book of Emigrants: 1607–1660, The Bristol Registers of Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations, 1654–1686, Virtual Jamestown, Virginia Center for Digital History, and Colonial State Papers secured from the British History Online databases, among other relevant historical sources). Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/25724 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/24664 Dual aspectual forms and event structure in Caribbean English Creoles Forbes-Barnett, Marsha This book tackles the divisive question of the Stative/Non-stative distinction by going straight to the root of the lexical items that have been at the heart of this discussion. It provides an analysis of property items (Dual Aspectual Forms) couched in the syntax-semantics interface eliminating the false dichotomy at the base of the controversy in the field and the suggestion that a lexical item needs be unambiguously Stative or Non-stative. What we see in this work is theoretical grounding for a flexible group of lexical items comprising both verbs and adjectives underlyingly with allowances made for derivation into either category. The result is a work that is conceptually and theoretically appealing and one that brings consensus. Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/24664 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/42700 Intersections of language rights and social justice in the Caribbean context Forrester, Clive This volume brings together the work of six authors who explore various dimensions of language rights and how they intersect with social justice in the Caribbean context. Language rights advocacy has been an ongoing issue in Caribbean linguistics since at least the 1970s when the Society for Caribbean Linguistics was established and linguists started to turn their attention to the marginalised status of Creole languages in the region. This continued into the 1990s when dismal scores in secondary school English resulted in governments singling out Creole languages as the culprit and linguists had to get involved in shaping language policy for territories across the region. By 2011 the role of linguists was cemented in the language rights debate with the creation of the Charter on Language Rights in the Creole-speaking Caribbean. Using examples from Jamaica and St. Lucia, the current study examines the challenges that still persist ten years after the Charter, specifically in the areas of language advocacy, linguistic discrimination, and communicative hurdles in the courtroom. Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/42700 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/46345 New research on circum-Caribbean creoles and language contact Bartens, Angela; Slomanson, Peter; Bøegh, Kristoffer Friis Synopsis: This volume features research papers dealing with creolized and partially restructured language varieties in the wider Caribbean region. Initially conceived of as a conference volume drawing on papers presented at the 2017 Summer conference of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, organized by the Universities of Tampere and Turku, Finland, the authors have since expanded the content of their original papers substantially, contributing to the empirical and analytical depth of their submissions. The volume ultimately aims both to validate new contact language research with this regional focus, as well as to stimulate further research on the fascinating language varieties that have developed and continue to thrive in the Caribbean region. Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/46345 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z