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Date: Wed, 26 May 2021 13:32:51
From: Melissa Irvine [mirv844 at aucklanduni.ac.nz]
Subject: Diss Title: Language contact in St. Lucia: The features and origins of St. Lucia Creole English

 
Institution: University of Auckland 
Program: The Linguistics Programme 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2020 

Author: Melissa Irvine

Dissertation Title: Language contact in St. Lucia: The features and origins of
St. Lucia Creole English 

Dissertation URL:  https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/handle/2292/51945

Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Creole French, Saint Lucian (acf)


Dissertation Director(s):
Diana Feick
Jason Brown

Dissertation Abstract:

This thesis documents in detail St. Lucia Creole English (SLCE), St. Lucia’s
third language variety, which is spoken alongside Kwéyòl, a French-based
creole, and Standard English. With only brief descriptions of its features
previously available, this work fills a significant gap in the literature by
not only documenting the variety based on first-hand data collection, but also
by determining how best to classify the language. I establish that its
morphosyntactic features can be traced to influences from Kwéyòl, Standard
English, various British English dialects, various Caribbean English dialects
and Caribbean English Creoles, North American English dialects and second
language acquisition effects based on comparisons of the features as well as
demographic information. Examining current contact language literature, this
thesis also aims to locate SLCE’s place in our current understanding of
language contact and language formation. I argue that the variety is best
considered a creole. Given, however, that one of its input languages is
already a creole, I propose the term ‘creole-influenced creole vernacular’ to
account for the fact that this variety represents the creolisation of a
creole. I motivate the use of this term by further presenting case studies of
two parallel varieties, Dominican Creole English (DCE) and Unserdeutsch.
Implications for creole literature, as well as education and language planning
in St. Lucia and beyond, are explored as this thesis not only begins to answer
some longstanding questions but also opens up several new and promising
avenues for research in these areas.




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