Diagnostic features of English-lexifier contact-languages: Grenada Creole English

Authors

  • Andrei A. Avram University of Bucharest

Keywords:

diagnostic features, Grenada Creole English, Atlantic, world-wide, Caribbean

Abstract

This paper draws on both diachronic and synchronic data and presents the attestations in Grenada Creole English of the diagnostic features of English-lexifier pidgins and creoles proposed by Baker & Huber (2001). This is followed by a comparison of the distribution of these features in Grenada Creole English and in the seven Atlantic English-lexifier contact languages considered by Baker & Huber (2001), and the quantification of the affinities of Grenada Creole English with several Eastern Caribbean varieties: Antiguan, Bajan, Kittitian, the Creole of Trinidad and Tobago, and Vincentian. A number of selected diagnostic features recorded in Grenada Creole English are then discussed in terms of their provenance, their relevance to the Western – Eastern Caribbean creoles divide, and their classification.

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Published

2014-03-18

How to Cite

Avram, A. A. (2014). Diagnostic features of English-lexifier contact-languages: Grenada Creole English. Linguistica Atlantica, 33(1), 2–18. Retrieved from https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/la/article/view/22537

Issue

Vol. 33 No. 1 (2014)

Section

Articles