FOCUS ON THE CARIBBEAN -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- The spread of English in the Caribbean area -- REFERENCES -- The decay of neo-colonial official language policies. The case of the English-lexicon Creoles of the Commonwealth Caribbean -- Introduction -- Language education policy -- The legal system -- The mass media -- The political system -- The Caribbean Lexicography Project -- Solutions -- Some general principles -- The planning and development of Caribbean English-lexicon Creoles -- The implementation of the use of Creole in official domains -- Conclusion -- TRANSLATION -- REFERENCES -- On writing English-related Creoles in the Caribbean -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Language politics -- 3. Aspects of creole writing systems -- 4. Aspects of readability -- 5. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- Social class and the use of language: A case study of Jamaican children -- REFERENCES -- Tracing elusive phonological features of Early Jamaican Creole -- REFERENCES -- Etymology in Caribbean Creoles -- REFERENCES -- The structure of tense and aspect in Barbadian English Creole -- Introduction -- The Bajan tense-aspect system -- The semantic structure of the tense-aspect system of the Bajan verb -- PROCESS versus FACT -- Extended PROCESS -- PAST marking -- Locative de -- COMPLETIVE dun -- Future and serial go -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- Innovation in Jamaican Creole The speech of Rastafari -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Notes on durative constructions in Jamaican and Guyanese creoles -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Interpreting the Durative Constructions -- 3. On the origins of the durative constructions -- 4. Conclusions -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- ADDENDA -- Evidence for an unsuspected habitual marker in Jamaican -- REFERENCES.

English-Spanish contact in the United States and Central America: sociolinguistic mirror images? -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- ADDRESSES OF AUTHORS.