In a Sea of Heteroglossia

Continuity, Divergence and Convergence in Language, Culture, and Society on the ABC Islands.

This book, Iguana’s Newfound Voices: Continuity, Divergence, Convergence in Language, Culture, and Society on the ABC Islands, is a collection of articles that present a critical perspective on the languages, literatures, and cultures of the ABC Islands and the Caribbean diaspora. The volume incorporates invited papers as well as presentations made to the 13th annual Eastern Caribbean Islands Cultures Conference (aka the ‘Islands in Between’ Conference) which was held at the Turkeyen Campus of the University of Guyana from 4 to 6 November 2011. The contributing authors include a wide range of voices old and new from the Leeward Islands of the Caribbean.

This volume brings together current research findings from a wide range of linguistic disciplines on Papiamentu as a Creole Language by scholars from the Caribbean and other parts of the world. Contributions of a formal linguistic nature include studies on Papiamentu phonology, lexicon, and morphosyntax. Other contributions address the social and historical matrices from which Papiamentu emerged as the most widely spoken language in the islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao. Finally, the volume includes studies on the current status of Papiamentu on these islands. This book, Linguistic Studies on Papiamentu, offers the reader an excellent opportunity to get an overall impression of recent linguistic work in Papiamentu