Grammatical variation in Bequia (St Vincent and the Grenadines)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14860579 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Miriam Meyerhoff (0000-0002-2599-1870, University of Auckland, corresponding author), J A Walker (0000-0003-1262-8850) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 209-234 |
| Publication date | 2012-08-28 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0920-9034 • E-ISSN: 1569-9870 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/jpcl.27.2.01mey |
| OpenAlex | W1999551426 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Despite the publication of Aceto & Williams (2003), the languages spoken in the Eastern Caribbean remain underdescribed. In this paper, we outline a project examining language use in Bequia (St Vincent and the Grenadines), based on fieldwork between 2003 and 2005, comprising over 100 hours of sociolinguistic interviews conducted and recorded by community-member researchers. We present quantitative analysis of three aspects of the grammatical system that exhibit variation: absence of the verb BE, verbal negation, and tense-aspect marking. We focus on three communities characterized by different sociodemographic histories. This paper fills a gap in our knowledge of the Eastern Caribbean and provides a descriptive sociolinguistic analysis as a starting point for future work. The findings contribute more generally to our understanding of (post-)colonial and contact varieties of English
Focus (optics · Geography · Linguistics · Negation · Point (geometry · Sociology · Variation (astronomy · Verb · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies
| Citations per year | 0.36 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2023 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |