Language Issues in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Name: Language Issues in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Brand: John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Paula Prescod(Herausgeber*in)

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Erschienen am 15. März 2015

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Language Issues in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Dedication page
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
References
Sociohistorical and linguistic account of St Vincent and the Grenadines
1. Introduction
2. What names tell us about settlement
3. Settlement history
3.1 Ethnolinguistic origins
3.2 Founding populations of SVG
3.2.1 Trans-Atlantic slaves
3.2.2 Indentured labourers
3.2.3 "Liberated" Africans
3.3 The importance of demographics in linguistic matters
4. Linguistic outcomes
4.1 Early attestations of VinC
4.2 Present-day VinC
4.2.1 Lexical features
4.2.2 Phonological features
4.2.3 Grammatical features
4.2.3.1 The noun phrase. The noun can stand as a single unit of the noun phrase, in which case it may be unmarked for number so that skul can refer to 'school' or 'schools'. Some nouns may have what might appear to be only plural entries since a phoneme r
4.2.3.2 The verb phrase. The marker fo 'for' is also common in the verb phrase. In addition to expressing purpose and direction, fo may also signal obligative or irrealis mood when it is postposed to ha 'have' as in (19), other modals, such as buhng 'boun
5. Conclusions
Abbreviations
References
Appendix 1. Map of St Vincent and Bequia showing some place names cited in the volume
Appendix 2b: Population percentages26
Appendix 3: Ports from which slaves were shipped to St Vincent, 1764-1808 (Eltis et al. 2010b)
Appendix 4: Movement of the post-slavery workforce
Appendix 5: The VinC alphabet: in Prescod (2010: 56)30
The fate of the local in light of the global
1. Introduction
2. Hamilton and Paget Farm - sociohistorical and linguistic background
3. Data and method
4. Preverbal markers
4.1 Distribution
4.2 Functions and use
4.3 Multivariate analysis
4.4 Discussion
5. Sociolinguistic phenomena
5.1 Social stratification of bin/did
5.2 Preverbal bin as identity marker
6. Conclusion
References
Subject and object pronoun use in Bequia (St Vincent and the Grenadines)
1. Introduction
2. Bequia pronouns in historical and regional perspective
3. Background to the Bequia data
4. Methods of analysis
5. Results
5.1 Subject-position pronouns
5.2 Object-position pronouns
5.3 Summary of results for subject- and object-position pronouns
5.4 Correlations between use of local subject and object pronoun forms
6. Discussion
7. Conclusion
References
"A she gi me words
well me gi she back de change"
1. Introduction
1.1 Data and methods
1.2 A note on the language(s) and transcription
2. Visible women
3. The verbal aesthetic in St Vincent
3.1 Sound and parallel structure
3.2 Figurative language
3.3 Re-using prior "texts"
3.4 Parodies and voice mimicry
3.5 Listening for someting
4. The risk of stigmatized talk
4.1 Public quarrels
4.2 Gossip
4.3 Cussing and commess - blurred boundaries
5. Reframing talk and managing reputation
5.1 A contest of reputations
5.2 Dropping words and 'knocking glasses': A framing contest
5.3 Makin joke - insult and gossip inside a playful frame
5.4 Retellings - reframing and justifying past behavior
6. Conclusion
References
The distribution of diagnostic features in English-lexified contact languages: Vincentian
1. Introduction
2. Methodology
3. First attestations in Vincentian Creole
4. Vincentian and other Atlantic English-lexified Pidgins and Creoles
5. Discussion of selected diagnostic features
6. Conclusions
References
Creole reflexes of do
1. Introduction
2. Some properties of do in English
3. Vincentian Creole
4. Duhn as an aspectual marker
4.1 Duhn with dynamic verbs
4.2 Duhn with stative verbs
4.3 Duhn with adjectival predicates
5. The relationship between the English perfect and VinC duhn
6. From transfer to innovation?
7. Conclusions
References
Languages in St Vincent & the Grenadines
1. Introduction
The bibliography
Biographical notes on the contributors

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