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Diagnostic features of English-lexified creoles: First attestations from Virgin Islands English Creole

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Publication: Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, XIII (2)
p-ISSN:2069-9239
Publisher:Universitatea din București
Place:București
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Abstract:This paper presents the earliest attestations in Virgin Islands English Creole of the diagnostic features of English-lexified contact languages proposed by Baker and Huber (2001). It compares the distribution of these features in Virgin Islands English Creole and in the seven Atlantic English-lexified pidgins and creoles considered by Baker and Huber (2001). Also included is a discussion of a number of selected features.
Key words:diagnostic features, creoles, Atlantic, world-wide, Caribbean
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