10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BASILECT»
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basilect in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and ...
These poles, nearly always idealized, are isolated and referred to as the acrolect
or (local) standard, and the basilect, often simply called "the creole." Each of
these notions is also fraught with problems, which cannot be addressed here.
2
A Handbook of Varieties of English: Morphology and syntax
and utensil) were stressed by the basilect group on the first syllable with the other
two groups likewise stressing the last four words on the same syllable. The first
five were stressed by the acrolect group on the second syllable while the ...
Edgar Werner Schneider, Bernd Kortmann, 2004
3
English in Language Shift: The History, Structure and ...
Appendix C morphology Rank orders Lect by Relative Speaker impression
clauses Morphology Topics 1 basilect 7 10 21 2 basilect 7 15 5 3 basilect 27 13 1
4 basilect 44 25 190 5 basilect 27 3 4 6 basilect 27 1 1 10 7 mesolect 75 42 59 8
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4
Creole Genesis, Attitudes and Discourse: Studies Celebrating ...
It is just as though some uniform basilect must have developed everywhere a
creole or any new vernacular spoken by descendants of Africans emerged,
especially in the New World. The social histories of New World and Indian Ocean
...
John R. Rickford, Suzanne Romaine, 1999
5
World Englishes: Critical Concepts in Linguistics
Bickerton is also careful to point out that 'we must be aware in particular of
suggesting that, at some time in the past, what is now the basilect was the "pure,"
"genuine" and only creole, miraculously free from variation, quite different in kind
from ...
Kingsley Bolton, Braj B. Kachru, 2006
6
Comfa Religion and Creole Language in a Caribbean Community
Kurylowicz's principles would account for Gibson's (1982, 1986, 1992b) analysis
whereby it is proposed that the basilect and mesolect are generated by the same
underlying grammar, the differences are only formal. The application of ...
7
Predication in Caribbean English Creoles
boundaries exist between basilect and mesolect 2.2 Mesolect vs Basilect It is
clear, as Alleyne (1980), DeCamp (1971) and others have pointed out, that a
simple dichotomy between creole and standard is not accurate for communities
like ...
8
Language in South Africa
who understands all the nuances of the basilect. In Mesthrie ( 1 990) I discuss the
similarities and possible links between the pre-basilect and Butler English, a
rudimentary pidgin of South India. This is the earliest inter-language form ...
9
Understanding Arabic: Essays in Contemporary Arabic ...
In other words, most speakers in Egypt, for example, use the basilect side of the
continuum more frequently in their speech, and even in their writing. This does
not support a two-system approach, however, as the continuum "does not require
...
El-Said M. Badawi, Alaa Elgibali, 1996
10
Language and Social History: Studies in South African ...
In Mesthrie (1990) I discuss the similarities and possible links between the pre-
basilect and Butler English, a rudimentary pidgin of South India. This is the
earliest interlanguage form discernible within SAIE and forms an important foil for
the ...
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BASILECT»
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basilect is used in the context of the following news items.
Scrabble players set new world record
Thesaurus-brained Beevers dazzled onlookers with his command of the English language by playing words such as 'basilect', defined as 'the ... «Toy News, Apr 15»
Children's Hospital helps troubled teens communicate
In a therapist's words, they are functional in basilect, the lowest form of language, and possibly even in mesolect, the most common range of ... «Washington Post, Dec 12»
Proud of Manglish?
The spectrum from Acrolect to Basilect can be described as language which is “slightly Malaysian” to “very Malaysian”, with Mesolect ... «The Star Online, Dec 12»
Linguist: It's okay to speak Manglish
At one end, there is Acrolect and at the other Basilect, with Mesolect somewhere in between. This might be seen as a continuum from “slightly ... «The Star Online, Nov 12»
