Bajan Creole - Further Reading

Further Reading

• Blake, Renee A. 1997. All o’ we is one? Race, class and language in a Barbados community. Ph. D., Stanford University.
• Burrowes, Audrey (in collaboration with Richard Allsopp). 1983. Barbadian Creole: A note on its social history and structure. In Lawrence Carrington, Dennis Craig, & Ramon Todd Dandaré, eds., Studies in Caribbean Language. St. Augustine, Trinidad: Society for Caribbean Linguistics, 38-45.
• Cassidy, Frederic (1986), "Barbadian Creole–possibility and probability", American Speech 61 (3): 195–205
• Fields, Linda. 1995. "Early Bajan: Creole or non-Creole?" In Jacques Arends, ed., The early stages of creolization. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: Benjamins, 89-112.
• Hancock, Ian (1980), "Gullah and Barbadian–origins and relationships", American Speech 55 (1): 17–35
• Holm, John A. 1988. Pidgins and creoles, vol. II: Reference Survey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Le Page, Robert (1957), "General outlines of Creole English dialects in the British Caribbean", Orbis 7: 54–64
• Rickford, John R. 1992. "The Creole residue in Barbados". In Nick Doane, Joan Hall, & Dick Ringler, eds. Old English and new: Essays in language and linguistics in honor of Frederic G. Cassidy. NY: Garland, 183-201.
• Rickford, John R. & Renee Blake. 1990. "Copula contraction and absence in Barbadian Creole English, Samaná English and Vernacular Black English". In Kira Hall et al., eds. Proceedings of the 16th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society, 257-68.
• Rickford, John R and Jerome S. Handler. 1994. "Textual evidence on the nature of early Barbadian speech, 1676–1835". Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 9: 221-55.
• Roberts, Peter A. 1988. "West Indians and their language". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (written by a Bajan)
• Winford, Donald. 2000. "‘Intermediate’ Creoles and degrees of change in Creole formation: The case of Bajan". In I Neumann-Holzschuh and EW Schneider, eds., Degrees of restructuring in Creole languages. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: Benjamins, 215-245.
• A~Z of Barbados Heritage, by Sean Carrington, Macmillan Caribbean – Macmillan Publishers Limited Press, 2007, paperback, ISBN 0-333-92068-6
• Notes for: A Glossary of Words and Phrases of Barbadian Dialect, by Frank A. Collymore, Second Edition – Advocate Co. Limited Press, 1957, paperback
• From Bajan To Standard English, by Jerome Davis
• Barbadian Dialect Poetry, by Kathleen Catford