Functions of Rasta Talk in a Jamaican Creole Healing Narrative: "A Bigfoot Dem Gi' Mi"

1996 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter L. Patrick ◽  
Arvilla Payne-Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Healing Narrative ◽  
Jamaican Creole

Bilingual Preschoolers' Spontaneous Productions: Considering Jamaican Creole and English

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karla N. Washington ◽  
Kristina Fritz ◽  
Kathryn Crowe ◽  
Brigette Kelly ◽  
Rachel Wright Karem
Keyword(s):  
Jamaican Creole

Variability across repeated productions in bilingual children speaking Jamaican Creole and English

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 648-659 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandy Abu El Adas ◽  
Karla N. Washington ◽  
Anna Sosa ◽  
Daphna Harel ◽  
Tara McAllister
Keyword(s):  
Bilingual Children ◽  
Jamaican Creole

Jamaican Creole and Jamaican English: phonology

2020 ◽  
pp. 450-480
Author(s):  
Hubert Devonish ◽  
Otelemate G. Harry
Keyword(s):  
Jamaican Creole

The expression of number in Jamaican Creole

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 363-385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele M. Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Functional Structure ◽  
Syntactic Analysis ◽  
True Number ◽  
Number Of Individuals ◽  
Jamaican Creole ◽  
Expected Outcomes

In this paper I argue that there is no true number morphology in Jamaican Creole (JC). Instead, I show that dem, traditionally taken to be a plural marker, is more properly analyzed as a marker of inclusiveness, a defining characteristic of definiteness. These are expected outcomes of JC being in the class of languages which are claimed to have set nouns, i.e. nouns which, when combined with a numeral X, refer to an X-numbered set of individuals rather than to X number of individuals (Rijkhoff 2004). Since JC does not mark plurality in the same way as its lexifier English, individuation and number in JC cannot be analysed in the same way as is done for English. The proposal for a syntactic analysis of number in JC, given the above, is that functional structure above the NP provides for optional individuation via Cl(assifier)Phrase, and additionally for optional number specification, via Num(ber)Phrase.

Dynamics of orthographic standardization in Jamaican Creole and Nigerian Pidgin

2007 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAGMAR DEUBER ◽  
LARS HINRICHS
Keyword(s):  
Jamaican Creole
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