For more information on
Abaco, contact:
Jeffrey Reaser
Becky Childs

Sociolinguistic publications
on Abaco

Sociolinguistic publications on Abaco

--Childs, Becky, Reaser, Jeffrey, & Wolfram, Walt (2003). Defining
ethnic varieties in the Bahamas: Phonological accommodation in Black and White Enclaves. To appear in Michael Aceto (ed.), Eastern Caribbean Creoles and Englishes. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

--Reaser, Jeffrey (2001). Copula Absence in Ethnically Contrastive
Bahamian Communities. MA thesis, Raleigh: North Carolina State
University.

--Reaser, Jeffrey (2002). Copula Absence in Bahamian Speech: Evidence from Ethnically Contrastive Enclaves, Abaco Island, Bahamas. To appear in, the Proceedings of 14th Biennial Conference of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics.

--Reaser, Jeffrey (forthcoming). An Ethnolinguistic Analysis of BahamianCopula Absence: Morphosyntactic Evidence from Abaco Island, The Bahamas. Submitted February 2002 to the
Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages.

--Sellers, Jason (1999). A Sociolinguistic Profile of Cherokee Sound, Bahamas: Analysis of an Out Island Community. MA thesis, Raleigh: North Carolina State University.