Jamaica Talk: Three Hundred Years of the English Language in Jamaica

by Frederic G. Cassidy

$75 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

London: Macmillan / Institute of Jamaica, 1961. Linguistics FIRST EDITION. Octavo 22 x 14cm pp.x; 469; 1 , blank. Island map as frontispiece. Publisher's hardcovers in typographic dust-jacket priced 30s. Spotting to edges, first and final leaves else fine, in a clean, bright, fine dust-wrapper. The history, pronunciation and grammar of this specific Caribbean version of the English language, with its 'musical lilt, stacatto rhythms, mingling of strange

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