Jamaican Creole Grammar

Author : Stephanie Durrleman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027255105

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The Syntax of Jamaican Creole by Stephanie Durrleman Pdf

This book offers an in-depth study of the overall syntax of (basilectal) Jamaican Creole, the first since Bailey (1966). The author, a Jamaican linguist, meticulously examines distributional and interpretative properties of functional morphology in Jamaican Creole (JC) from a cartographic perspective (Cinque 1999, 2002; Rizzi 1997, 2004), thus exploring to what extent the grammar of JC provides morphological manifestations of an articulate IP, CP and DP. The data considered in this work offers new evidence in favour of these enriched structural analyses, and the instances where surface orders differ from the underlying functional skeleton are accounted for in terms of movement operations. This investigation of Jamaican syntax therefore allows us to conclude that the 'poor' inflectional morphology typical of Creole languages in general and of (basilectal) Jamaican Creole in particular does not correlate with poor structural architecture. Indeed the free morphemes discussed, as well as the word order considerations that indicate syntactic movement to designated projections, serve as arguments in favour of a rich underlying functional map.

Author : B. L. Bailey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1966-01-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521040822

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Jamaican Creole Syntax by B. L. Bailey Pdf

Beryl Loftman Bailey's book was one of the first published on the Jamaican Creole language.

Author : I'Heshia Handy
Publisher : I'Heshia Handy
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9798985737011

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Jamaican Creole Grammar by I'Heshia Handy Pdf

In this book are lessons that discuss the grammatical structures of Jamaican Creole and English. You will learn how to form adjectives and adverbs, questions, commands, the passive voice, and negative sentences. You will also learn how to pluralize Jamaican Creole sentences and show ownership. The grammatical structures of Jamaican Creole and English are compared to help you develop a better understanding of the differences between the languages. You will also learn how to pronounce Jamaican Creole words. This book outlines a simple alphabetical system to help you enunciate Jamaican Creole words. It uses the simplest spelling for each syllable of a word to imitate the spoken word as best as possible. The words most commonly used in everyday conversation are used in the examples and practice exercises included. Some common questions and expressions are also included. It is suggested that you use the books Jamaican Creole Tenses and Speak Jamaican: A Guide To Fluency along with this book to improve your understanding of Jamaican Creole.

Author : Velma Pollard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9766401489

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From Jamaican Creole to Standard English by Velma Pollard Pdf

This guide indicates the ways in which Jamaican Creole differs from Standard Jamaican English. It is organized into four sections: words that look alike but mean different thing; words that are different but mean the same things; grammatical structures that are different but convey the same information; and idiomatic Speech or writing.

Author : L. Emilie Adams,Llewelyn Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173000542096

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Understanding Jamaican Patois by L. Emilie Adams,Llewelyn Adams Pdf

Author : L. Emilie Adams,Llewelyn Adams
Publisher : LMH Publishers
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9766101558

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Understanding Jamaican Patois by L. Emilie Adams,Llewelyn Adams Pdf

A welcome re-issue of this popular introduction to Jamaican patois and grammar, this essential guide provides a fascinating overview of the English language as spoken in Jamaica and also includes a childhood tale written in dialect.

Author : I'Heshia Handy
Publisher : Mandily Books
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-24
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780692046104

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SPEAK JAMAICAN by I'Heshia Handy Pdf

SPEAK JAMAICAN is a comprehensive instructional tool that outlines the grammar of Jamaican Creole. It delineates the pronunciation and grammar of the language and includes lessons outlining the formation of tenses, irregular verbs, adjectives, adverbs, questions, commands, pluralization, the passive voice, making sentences negative, showing ownership, and additional rules of Jamaican Creole. Each lesson consists of practice exercises and a vocabulary list to familiarize the reader with Jamaican Creole Grammar. The course is designed to achieve fluency in speech. If the reader is looking to do more than just ‘parrot’ Jamaican words and phrases, this work is a vital instrument to achieving that goal.

Author : Maximilian Bauer
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783668108424

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Jamaican Creole and Tok Pisin. Grammatical Similarities and Differences Between English Based Creole Languages by Maximilian Bauer Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,7, University of Würzburg (Neuphilologisches Institut), course: Dialects of English, language: English, abstract: As Colonization in Europe emerged more and more countries all over the world were seized by Spanish, German, Dutch, Danish and English troops. As there was a problem of communication a new language between the English troops and settlers and the native people came up that is nowadays called a Pidgin language. It was a mixture of the indigenous language and the language of the invaders from Europe. When later the British brought the first slaves from other colonies mostly in Africa they also had a huge impact on this Pidgin language. As the time went by more and more of these colonies declared their independence but most of the influences to the life and the country in the colonies seemed irreversible. A very important impact was the one on the language of the former natives by African slaves and European settlers that inhabited the colonies for a long time. These influences can still be seen in modern times in education, lifestyle and of course the language. The Pidgin languages all over the world – today most of them developed to creoles – are still spoken. They have some distinct features in common but they also show differences concerning grammatical or syntactical features even if the spelling seems to be nearly the same. Therefore in my opinion it is worthwhile taking a closer look to those similarities and differences between Pidgin and Creole languages all over the world and to pick out some appropriate examples that maybe do not share a continent, but instead share linguistic features derived from actions and happenings of a former time whose impacts are still seen today.

Author : Frederic G. Cassidy,Robert Brock Le Page
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9766401276

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Dictionary of Jamaican English by Frederic G. Cassidy,Robert Brock Le Page Pdf

The method and plan of this dictionary of Jamaican English are basically the same as those of the Oxford English Dictionary, but oral sources have been extensively tapped in addition to detailed coverage of literature published in or about Jamaica since 1655. It contains information about the Caribbean and its dialects, and about Creole languages and general linguistic processes. Entries give the pronounciation, part-of-speach and usage of labels, spelling variants, etymologies and dated citations, as well as definitions. Systematic indexing indicates the extent to which the lexis is shared with other Caribbean countries.

Author : Peter L. Patrick
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027248753

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Urban Jamaican Creole by Peter L. Patrick Pdf

A synchronic sociolinguistic study of Jamaican Creole (JC) as spoken in urban Kingston, this work uses variationist methods to closely investigate two key concepts of Atlantic Creole studies: the mesolect, and the creole continuum. One major concern is to describe how linguistic variation patterns with social influences. Is there a linguistic continuum? How does it correlate with social factors? The complex organization of an urbanizing Caribbean society and the highly variable nature of mesolectal speech norms and behavior present a challenge to sociolinguistic variation theory. The second chief aim is to elucidate the nature of mesolectal grammar. Creole studies have emphasized the structural integrity of basilectal varieties, leaving the status of intermediate mesolectal speech in doubt. How systematic is urban JC grammar? What patterns occur when basilectal creole constructions alternate with acrolectal English elements? Contextual constraints on choice of forms support a picture of the mesolect as a single grammar, variable yet internally-ordered, which has evolved a fine capacity to serve social functions. Drawing on a year's fieldwork in a mixed-class neighborhood of the capital city, the author (a speaker of JC) describes the speech community's history, demographics, and social geography, locating speakers in terms of their social class, occupation, education, age, sex, residence, and urban orientation. The later chapters examine a recorded corpus for linguistic variables that are phono-lexical (palatal glides), phonological (consonant cluster simplification), morphological (past-tense inflection), and syntactic (pre-verbal tense and aspect marking), using quantitative methods of analysis (including Varbrul). The Jamaican urban mesolect is portrayed as a coherent system showing stratified yet regular linguistic behavior, embedded in a well-defined speech community; despite the incorporation of forms and constraints from English, it is quintessentially creole in character.

Author : Antje Bernstein
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9783656071396

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English in Jamaica by Antje Bernstein Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, 14 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Throughout the last centuries the English language spread all over the world first and foremost due to the colonial politic of its motherland: Great Britain. Especially in the Caribbean the British empire had a lot of colonies in the past - one, in fact the biggest one, of these was Jamaica. Being one of the world's many English-speaking countries it is worth studying especially from a linguistic point of view because it is one of the few Caribbean countries in which a standard English and an English-based creole have been employed almost since its colonization. To get a precise picture of what English is like in Jamaica one has to consider the history of the Jamaican languages as well as the present situation. As a standard variety and a creole coexist in Jamaica, one has to look at both of them in isolation and at how they influence each other. Therefore it will not only be of interest to examine the function and some of the linguistic features of Jamaican English and the Jamaican creole but also the post-creole continuum. First of all, a look at the history will make clear how the English language developed in Jamaica. The following chapters will deal with Standard Jamaican English and Jamaican Creole in particular and, finally, the examination of the post-creole continuum will make the consequences of the mutual influence of these two languages clear. David L. Lawton's text "English in the Caribbean" and the book Linguistic Variation in Jamaica: A Corpus-Based Study of Radio and Newspaper Usage by Andrea Sand will form a useful basis for the study of the English language in Jamaica and will be completed by other subject-relevant literature. The aim of this term paper is to provide an insight into the linguistic diversity in Jamaica and thus to i

Author : Jessica Menz
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783638057899

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London Jamaican -Jamaican Creole in London by Jessica Menz Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Bayreuth (Lehrstuhl für Englische Sprachwissenschaft), course: English – based Pidgin and Creole Languages (and beyond), language: English, abstract: Dealing with linguistics, one clearly realises that language is anything else but a static subject. Actually, language finds itself in constant change and is shaped by its speakers and the situation they are in. One of the many influences that form language has always been contact with new people and different languages, which for example happened when the Britains began to explore the world and brought English to the new continents. Many different new varieties and languages developed, one of them being Jamaican Creole. Far away from Great Britain it found its niche in Jamaica, where it is spoken by many as their native language. Pidgins and Creoles are a well-explored subject in linguistics. But what happens when these languages return to the home countries of one of their root – languages? One of the classic examples is London Jamaican, spoken mostly by black immigrants and their descendants in London. In this paper I am going to outline the history and sociolinguistic situation of London Jamaican and its characteristic features regarding grammar and phonology. Also, I will describe how two extremely distinct varieties, Jamaican Creole and London English, have influenced each other and how London Jamaican functions in everyday contexts. In the early 16th century European nations began exploring the world and soon secured their newly gained territories by making them their colonies. The Caribbean Islands, including Jamaica as well, were colonized by the British, Spanish, Dutch, French and others. Together with the languages of the natives and of Africans, who came to the Caribbean as slaves, there was a strong demand for a common language to make communication between these different groups possible. This led to the development of pidgin languages, i.e. the mixture of at least two different languages. Such a new ‘lingua franca’ was mainly used in contact situations and not spoken as a native language. Often, this development resumed in the process of creolisation. Pidgins were becoming native languages, developing a more complex vocabulary and grammar. Usually creoles exist alongside more prestigious standard languages, e.g. Jamaican Standard English, of which the creole forms are often considered as ‘wrong’. In Jamaica, English was the lexifier, thus most Jamaican Creole words derive from British English.

Author : Kim Frintrop
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783656653394

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Plural Marking Strategies in Tok Pisin and Jamaican Creole by Kim Frintrop Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,0, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, course: Proseminar Linguistics, language: English, abstract: The following paper deals with the central question whether Tok Pisin and Jamaican Creole are inflected to indicate number or not. To begin with, the paper will first give a brief historical, linguistic and social background of both creoles. Then the paper focuses on the comparison between the two creole languages in terms of inflectional plural marking, analytic plural marking and bare nouns.

Author : Peter L. Patrick
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1999-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027298539

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Urban Jamaican Creole by Peter L. Patrick Pdf

A synchronic sociolinguistic study of Jamaican Creole (JC) as spoken in urban Kingston, this work uses variationist methods to closely investigate two key concepts of Atlantic Creole studies: the mesolect, and the creole continuum. One major concern is to describe how linguistic variation patterns with social influences. Is there a linguistic continuum? How does it correlate with social factors? The complex organization of an urbanizing Caribbean society and the highly variable nature of mesolectal speech norms and behavior present a challenge to sociolinguistic variation theory. The second chief aim is to elucidate the nature of mesolectal grammar. Creole studies have emphasized the structural integrity of basilectal varieties, leaving the status of intermediate mesolectal speech in doubt. How systematic is urban JC grammar? What patterns occur when basilectal creole constructions alternate with acrolectal English elements? Contextual constraints on choice of forms support a picture of the mesolect as a single grammar, variable yet internally-ordered, which has evolved a fine capacity to serve social functions. Drawing on a year’s fieldwork in a mixed-class neighborhood of the capital city, the author (a speaker of JC) describes the speech community’s history, demographics, and social geography, locating speakers in terms of their social class, occupation, education, age, sex, residence, and urban orientation. The later chapters examine a recorded corpus for linguistic variables that are phono-lexical (palatal glides), phonological (consonant cluster simplification), morphological (past-tense inflection), and syntactic (pre-verbal tense and aspect marking), using quantitative methods of analysis (including Varbrul). The Jamaican urban mesolect is portrayed as a coherent system showing stratified yet regular linguistic behavior, embedded in a well-defined speech community; despite the incorporation of forms and constraints from English, it is quintessentially creole in character.

Author : Friederike Börner
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783668210233

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The development of Jamaican Creole English and its popularity and recognition by Friederike Börner Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, University of Potsdam (Institut fuer Anglistik), course: Languages in Contact, language: English, abstract: In this paper I want to provide a short introduction to the linguistic history of Jamaica. Moreover I will talk about the Standard Jamaican English, which is the official language of Jamaica. In this paper I will focus on Jamaican Creole English, therefore I will explain the social status and provide a sociolinguistic analysis of the creole. In the last point I will discuss the topic introduced at the top of this paper again - the popularity of the Jamaican Creole English and the recognition of the language in the world. In this paper I don't want to give a full linguistic analysis of Jamaicas languages, but I want to give an insight to the linguistic diversity of Jamaica. In my research I want to find out, if Jamaican Creole English is only “broken English” or if the impact of music and popular culture changed it into the standard language of Jamaica. The latest American Volkswagen advertisement depicts a white middle class man speaking to his colleagues with a Jamaican Creole English accent to cheer them up. He is supposed to display a satisfied and happy Volkswagen driver. The clip was released as a pregame Super Bowl advertisement in January 2013 and was received controversially. Whereas many Jamaicans saw the ad as an victory for the recognition of their creole language, others considered the clip as cultural offensive and racist (McFadden 2013: 1). However, the association western countries have towards Jamaican Creole English is a positive one - it is understood as a joyful and upbeat language. The positive image of the language is mostly created by popular Reggae and Dancehall artists like Bob Marley or Shabba Ranks, who helped Jamaican Creole English to gain recognition in the world. Even in the Volkswagen ad we can find a reference to the reggae idol. The white worker is paraphrasing lyrics from Bob Marley’s song “Three Little Birds” when standing in the elevator and saying “No worries, mon. Everything will be all right”. (McFadden 2013:1). Jamaican Creole English changed its image from “broken English” to a popular Creole language which became the tool of communicating music and Jamaican culture.