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Chapter 11 - Gullah West

Texas Afro-Seminole Creole

from Part II - The Americas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2015

By
Ian Hancock
Edited by
Jeffrey P. Williams ,
Edgar W. Schneider ,
Peter Trudgill  and
Daniel Schreier
Jeffrey P. Williams
Affiliation:
Texas Tech University
Edgar W. Schneider
Affiliation:
Universität Regensburg, Germany
Peter Trudgill
Affiliation:
Universitetet i Agder, Norway
Daniel Schreier
Affiliation:
Universität Zürich
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Further Studies in the Lesser-Known Varieties of English , pp. 236 - 264
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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