Table of Contents

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