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John R. Rickford, Dimensions of a creole continuum: History, texts, and linguistic analysis of Guyanese Creole. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987. Pp. xix + 340.

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Philip Baker
Philip Baker
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Language in Society , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , June 1990 , pp. 257 - 260
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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