Caribbean English and Creoles

Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage (1996)

Richard Allsopp, ed, New Register of Caribbean English Usage (2010)

Jeannette Allsopp, Dictionaries of Caribbean English: Agents of Standardisation (book chapter, 2020)

Caribbean Creolization (2017)

Creoles of the Caribbean (2018 article)

Society for Caribbean Linguistics

Jeffrey P.Williams, Euro-Caribbean English varieties (book chapter, 2010)

Caribbean English (OED)

Varieties of English. 2, The Americas and the Caribbean (2008)


Antigua and Barbuda

Maria Ballester, A socio-historical account of the formation of the creole language of Antigua (Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 31(2) 2016)

Wikipedia: Leeward Caribbean Creole English


Bahamas

Wikipedia: Bahamian English

John A.Holm, Dictionary of Bahamian English (1982)

Jeffrey Reaser, Bahamian English (book chapter, 2010)

Becky Childs and Walt Wolfram, Bahamian English: phonology (book chapter, 2004)

Talk like a Bahamian - Bahamas Slang


Barbados

Renee Blake, Bajan: phonology (book chapter, 2004)

Wikipedia: Bajan Creole

Bajan - English dictionary (online)


Belize

Wikipedia: Belizean Creole


Bermuda

Wikipedia: Bermudian English

Nicole Eberle, Bermudian English : A sociohistorical and linguistic profile (2021)

Rosemary Hall, From chingas to chopsing: introducing Bermudian English (OED, 2021)

Bermudian English (OED, 2022)

Pronunciation model: Bermudian English (OED)

 

Jamaica

Dictionary of Jamaican English (2nd ed. 1980)

Jamaican Creole – English Dictionary

Michael Westphal, Language Variation on Jamaican Radio (2017)

Michelle M.Kennedy, What Do Jamaican Children Speak? A Language Resource (2017)

A Learner’s Grammar of Jamaican (inc. bibliography)

Wikipedia: Jamaican English

Wikipedia: Jamaican Patois

Hubert Devonish and Otelemate G. Harry, Jamaican Creole and Jamaican English: phonology (book chapter, 2004)

Michele Marie Kennedy, Quantification in Jamaican Creole (2012)

Defining Jamaican fiction (1996)

The Jamaican Language Unit (University of West Indies, Mona, Jamaica)

Beginner's Guide to Speaking Jamaican Patois

Arion McNicoll, Will Patois become Jamaica's official language? (2023 article)

 

St.Lucia

The Pride and Prejudice of St. Lucian Creole  (2018 article)


St.Vincent and the Grenadines

Paula Prescod, A grammatical description of the Noun Phrase in the English-lexicon Creole of St Vincent and the Grenadines (2010)


Trinidad and Tobago

Valerie Youssef and Winford James, The creoles of Trinidad and Tobago: phonology (book chapter, 2004)

Wikipedia: Trinidadian and Tobagonian English

Winford James, Trinidad and Tobago Standard English? (webpage, 2001)

Wikipedia: Trinidadian Creole

History of Trinidadian Creole

Trinidadian Creole at York College – A Resource Site

Trinidadian French Creole Dictionary

A Signature of Tobagonian Speech (2001)