Jamaican Creole morphology and syntax

Статья опубликована в сборнике A Handbook of Varieties of English. Vol 2: Morphology and Syntax, ed. Bernd Kortmann, Edgar W Schneider, Clive Upton, Rajend Mesthrie & Kate Burridge. (Topics in English Linguistics, ed. Bernd Kortmann & Elizabeth Closs Traugott.) Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2004. — р. 407-438Jamaican Creole (JamC, known to its speakers as Patwa) is a language of ethnic identification for roughly two and a half million people in the island of Jamaica - and overseas for many thousands of native speakers (and non-natives; see British Creole chapters.) JamC is a canonical example of an Atlantic Creole. One of the first Caribbean English-lexicon Creoles to be described using modern linguistic methods (Loftman 1953, Cassidy 1961), it remains among the best-researched. The first generative grammar of a Creole was Loftman Bailey’s Jamaican Creole Syntax (1966). The first comprehensive etymological dictionary of a Creole was Cassidy & LePage’s Dictionary of Jamaican English (1967, hereafter DJE).