Trinidad Yoruba: From Mother Tongue to Memory
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Language
English
ISBN
9789766400545
Contents
Acknowledgments
A Note on Ethnonyms
Orthographic Guide
Phonological Symbols
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part 1. The Yoruba of Trinidad: Historical Background and Sociolinguistic Behavior
1. The Yoruba and Transatlantic Slavery
2. First-Generation Trinidad Yoruba Society
3. Language Attitudes of Second- and Third-Generation Africans
4. Residual Language Domains: Names and Ritual
Part 2. Trinidad Yoruba: Linguistic Structures of Second- and Third-Generation Speakers
5. Phonology
6. Syntax
7. Lexicon
Part 3. The Dialectics of Obsolescence and Creolization
8. Language Recession within a Creolized Context
9. Creolization Processes in Broader Perspective
Appendix: Trinidad Yoruba Lexicon in Alphabetical Order
Notes
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
References
Index
About the Author
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