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Language Jamaican
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Feature
Value
lect
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Jamaican
Jamaican (Jamaican Mesolect)
Map
Coordinates
WGS84
18°N, 77°30'W
18.00, -77.50
Sources
Jamaican Creole Syntax: A Transformational Approach
Bailey 1966
Jamaican Creole: Can dialect boundaries be defined?
Bailey 1971
Dictionary of Jamaican English
Cassidy et al. 1967
Early forms of question words and relativizers in Atlantic English Creoles
Bruyn 1999
Jamaica talk: Three hundred years of the English language in Jamaica
Cassidy 1961
Fi and fu: Origins and functions in some Caribbean English-based creoles
Byrne 1984
Evidence for an unsuspected habitual marker in Jamaican
Christie 1986
Modality in Jamaican Creole
Christie 1991
The syntax of Jamaican Creole : A cartographic perspective
Durrleman-Tame 2008
Devonish et al. 2007
Language in Exile: Three hundred years of Jamaican Creole
Lalla and D'Costa 1990
The habitual category in Guyanese and Jamaican creoles
Gibson 1988
The phonology and phonetics of Jamaican Creole reduplication
Gooden 2003
Reduplication in Jamaican Creole: Semantic functions and prosodic constraints
Gooden 2003
A preliminary classification of the Anglophone Atlantic creoles with syntactic data from thirty-three representative dialects
Hancock 1987
Codeswitching on the Web: English and Jamaican Creole in E-mail Communication
Hinrichs 2006
The meanings of “more of the same”: Iconicity in reduplication and the evidence for substrate transfer in the genesis of Caribbean Creole languages
Kouwenberg and LaCharité 2003
Echoes of Africa: Reduplication in Caribbean Creole and Niger-Congo languages
Kouwenberg and LaCharité 2004
The iconic interpretations of reduplication: Evidence from Caribbean Creole languages
Kouwenberg 2001
An overview of Jamaican Creole reduplication
Kouwenberg et al. 2003
Passive in Jamaican Creole: A duppy in the syntax
LaCharité and Wellington 1996
Passive in Jamaican Creole: Phonetically empty but syntactically active
LaCharité and Wellington 1999
Jamaican creole: A historical introduction to Jamaican Creole
Le Page and DeCamp 1960
Ethnologue: Languages of the World
Lewis 2009
Sisters under the skin: A case for genetic relationship between the Atlantic English-based creoles
McWhorter 1995
Observations on time reference in Jamaican and Guyanese creoles
Mufwene 1983
An exploration of colour terms in English-lexifier Atlantic creoles
Moro 2007
Notes on durative constructions in Jamaican and Guyanese Creoles
Mufwene 1986
Jamaican Patwa (Creole English)
Patrick 2007
Creoles at the intersection of variable processes: -t,d-deletion and past-marking in the Jamaican mesolect
Patrick 1991
Deixis in Caribbean English-lexicon creole: A description of a, da and de
Pochard and Devonish 1986
On the typology of creole TMA systems
Winford 2001
Anglo-Caribbean English: A study of its sociolinguistic history and the development of its aspectual markers
Williams 1987
Predication in Caribbean English Creoles
Winford 1993
Jamaican
Farquharson 2013
Alternative names
ethnologue:
Jamaican Creole English
glottolog:
jama1262
iso639-3:
jam
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