Diagnostic features of English-lexified creoles: First attestations from Virgin Islands English Creole

This paper presents the earliest attestations in Virgin Islands English Creole of the diagnostic features of English-lexified contact languages proposed by Baker and Huber (2001). It compares the distribution of these features in Virgin Islands English Creole and in the seven Atlantic English-lexifi...

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Main Author: Andrei A. Avram
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti 2011-01-01
Series:Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/index.pl/diagnostic_features_of_english-lexified_creoles_first_attestations_from_virgin_islands_english_creole