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Peer reviewedHolm, John – Language Sciences, 1992
Compares studies of English-based creoles in Atlantic with work on pidgins and creoles in Pacific to examine the core of lexicon that cannot be traced to current standard English and historical relationship between languages. The lexical base of Pacific varieties was both English and English-based creoles of the Atlantic. Grammatical and lexical…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Creoles, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics
Holm, John – 1985
Twenty linguistic features found in essays of Creole-speaking students taking remedial writing courses at Hunter College are discussed and illustrated. The students spoke a creole or post-creole language as their mother tongue. The language varieties, which are those most frequently encountered in East Coast urban centers from Boston to Miami, are…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Creoles
