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Devonish, Hubert – 1988
The nature of the Creole-to-English continuum for Guyana is examined with two aims. The first of these is to critically assess the validity of orthodox variationist approaches as applied to similar language situations and the second is to produce the outline of an alternative approach that would work in this and other language situations as well.…
Descriptors: Creoles, English, Foreign Countries, Language Research