Publication details

Authors/Editors:	Rickford, John R.
Title:	Dimensions of a Creole continuum: History, texts, and linguistic analysis of Guyanese Creole.
Year:	1987
Publisher:	Stanford: Stanford University Press
Pages:	xix + 340
Publication type:	Book — monograph
Language:	English
Volumes:	1
Keyword(s):	creole ; immigrant ; standard1 vs. dialect2 ; vernacular
Subject — language(s):	English, Guyanese Creole
Annotation:	This (socio)linguistic contribution to the study of Guyanese Creole English also provides information relevant for similar situations involving immigrant creole-speaking populations and creole or nonstandard vernacular languages.

Reviews

Kallen, Jeffrey L. (1991) “<Review of J.R. Rickford (1987: 'Dimensions of a Creole continuum: History, texts, and linguistic analysis of Guyanese Creole.')>” Discourse & Society 2:3. pp. 372-374. Baker, Philip (1990) “<Review of J.R. Rickford (1987: 'Dimensions of a creole continuum: History, texts, and linguistic analysis of Guyanese Creole.').>” Language in Society 19:2. pp. 257-260. Boretzky, Norbert (1990) “<Review of J.J. Rickford (1987: 'Dimensions of a Creole continuum. History, texts and linguistic analysis of Guyanese Creole.').>” Linguistics 28:3. pp. 576-578. Roberts, Peter A. (1990) “<Review of J.R. Rickford (1987: 'Dimensions of a creole continuum: History, texts and linguistic analysis of Guyanese Creole.').>” Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 11:4. pp. 342-345. Carrington, Lawrence D. (1989) “Review of J.R.Rickford (1987: `Dimensions of a creole continuum: History, texts and linguistic analysis of Guyanese creole').” Language 65:2. pp. 389-392. Winer, Lise (1989) “<Review of J.D. Rickford (1987: 'Dimensions of a Creole continuum: History, texts, and linguistic analysis of Guyanese Creole.').|” Language Problems and Language Planning 13:1. pp. 82-85. Klingler, Tom (1988) “Review of J.R.Rickford 1987.” Anthropological Linguistics 30:2. pp. 242-249.