Abstract
1. Introduction (by Gorlach, Manfred) 2. The spread of English in the Caribbean area (by Holm, John) 3. The decay of neo-colonial official language policies. The case of the English-lexicon Creoles of the Commonwealth Caribbean (by Devonish, Hubert) 4. On writing English-related Creoles in the Caribbean (by Hellinger, Marlis) 5. Social class and the use of language: A case study of Jamaican children (by Craig, Dennis R.) 6. Tracing elusive phonological features of Early Jamaican Creole (by Lalla, Barbara) 7. Etymology in Caribbean Creoles (by Cassidy, Frederic G.) 8. The structure of tense and aspect in Barbadian English Creole (by Roy, John D.) 9. Innovation in Jamaican Creole. The speech of Rastafari (by Pollard, Velma) 10. Notes on durative constructions in Jamaican and Guyanese Creole (by Mufwene, Salikoko S.) 11. Evidence for an unsuspected habitual marker in Jamaican (by Christie, Pauline) 12. English-Spanish contact in the United States and Central America: Sociolinguistic mirror images? (by Lipski, John M.) 13. Addresses of authors
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