Languages of the West Indies /
"Based upon more than forty years of linguistic and ethnographic research, Douglas Taylor's work presents the languages of the Caribbean in all their variegated richness. Focusing as it does on language contact and linguistic change in the Caribbean from pre-Conquest times to the present,...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[1977], ©1977
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| Series: | Johns Hopkins studies in Atlantic history and culture
Johns Hopkins studies in Atlantic history and culture |
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Table of Contents:
- Tables
- Foreword by Sidney W. Mints and Dell Hymes
- Acknowledgements
- Language abbreviations
- Introduction
- ONE. Amerindian languages of the West Indies
- Dead languages attested by wordlists
- Nepuyo
- Shebayo
- Yao
- Taino
- Living languages
- Arawak
- Island-Carib
- TWO. The phonology of Island-Carib
- Vowels and accents
- Consonants
- Comparison
- THREE. Grammatical outline of Island-Carib
- Verbs
- Indefinite or nonaspectual verbs
- Aspectual and auxiliary verbs
- Nouns
- Locators or demonstratives
- Particles
- Comparisons between Island-Carib and Arawak and Guajiro
- FOUR. The vocabulary of Island-Carib
- Borrowing
- Loss, referential differentiation, and change
- Compounds and comparison
- FIVE. Form and function of Karina loanwords in Island-Carib
- SIX. Amerindian texts and wordlists
- Texts
- Arawak
- Central American Island-Carib
- Karina
- Wordlists
- Arawak
- Guajiro
- Central American Island-Carib
- Karina
- Warao
- SEVEN. The Caribbean Creoles
- EIGHT. Saramaccan and some other Creoles
- Saramaccan and Sranan
- Saramaccan and Portuguese Guinea Creole
- Saramaccan and Sranan again
- Saramaccan and Papiamentu
- Some common items in creole vocabularies
- NINE. A general grammatical survey of the Caribbean Creoles
- Interrogative words and expressions
- Personal pronouns
- Some prenominal and nominal expressions
- Creole and the Romance verbs
- The predicative systems
- Double predication
- Creole expressions of the verb to be
- Summary and conclusions
- Appendix: a note on Mauritian Creole
- TEN. Outline of Dominican Creole
- Background
- Phonology
- Distribution of phonemes
- The significant units: sentence structure
- The significant units: forms
- ELEVEN. Some social aspects of the Creole languages
- TWELVE. Creole texts and wordlists
- Texts
- Sranan
- Lesser Antillean, Dominican dialect
- Wordlists
- Saramaccan
- Sranan
- Negro Dutch
- Papiamentu
- Saotomense
- Lesser Antillean
- Haitian
- Cayenne Creole
- Mauritian Creole
- References