Title description This volume, a detailed empirical study of the creole English spoken in the
Bahamian capital, Nassau, contributes to our understanding of both urban creoles and tense …

Summary The Caribbean Englishes or restructured Englishes are used as generally
synonymous with other terms found in the linguistics literature: English‐derived or‐based …

This dissertation investigates the Ethnolinguistic Vitality (EV) of the English based Creoles
spoken in San Andrés and Providencia. Given that Spanish has a growing presence in …

The status of Gullah and Bahamian Creole English (BahCE) within the Atlantic English
creoles and their historical relationship with African American Vernacular English (AAVE) …

Modeling Englishes has enjoyed quite some popularity since the late 1980s, when the focus
of research shifted from the description of individual varieties to attempts at explaining the …

The Commonwealth of The Bahamas is a small group of islands southeast of Florida,
inhabited by just over 350000 people and surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean. Despite its …

The study of isolated Bahamian enclaves provides essential data with which to address
sociolinguistic questions: Do monoethnic enclaves foster ethnolinguistic distinctiveness and …

This chapter offers an areal linguistic profile of the English varieties spoken in the
anglophone Caribbean. Since the second half of the twentieth century, there has been a …

Bermudian English. A sociohistorical and linguistic profile focuses on a hitherto severely
under-researched variety of English. The book traces the origins and development of …

This chapter describes a continuum of lesser-known varieties of English spoken in small,
relatively isolated enclave white communities in the West Indies that I refer to here as Euro …