Download or read book Mwen Ka Ale The French Lexicon Creole of Grenada History Language and Culture written by Marise La Grenade-Lashley and published by Aventine Press. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mwen Ka Ale" presents the story of Grenada's French-lexicon Creole in narrative and multimedia form. The voices of the aged keepers of this rich language bring its history to life, providing a bridge that links past to present."

Download or read book Abridged Handbook of Grenadian Creole English and French Names written by Thomas Zarah R. A. Chase and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The handbook includes elements of Grenadian folklore, proverbs, and sayings. Much more work needs to be done in those areas. In fact, the proverbs and sayings are already the object of a separate publication that is well underway. A special section on French names and their meanings has also been included for primary school pupils and teachers, as well as foreigners to our shores. It deals with the names of places, people, patois nicknames, and French-sounding names. Keywords, key expressions, or entries in the lexeme section and in other sections of the book are in bold type. Some of these terms may also be noted by an asterisk. The part of speech of the terms is noted, their pronunciation where deemed necessary for this particular publication, the origin of the term, and their meaning in SE/GCE. As a general rule, the most popular meanings of terms are in descending order of importance. The cultural and folkloric values of certain entries are noted in an effort to document such information and/or beliefs. Synonyms, antonyms, and cross references are given due prominence to show the richness of the language. Omitted from this work are terms considered to be too vulgar in nature, particularly the wealth of those referring to human sexual organs and expletives. A comparative grammar section juxtaposes grammatical similarities and differences between SE and GCE. It is a scratching of the surface and is intended to show, first of all, that GCE has a grammar of its own, where traditionally certain linguistic performances were and may still be seen or written off as errors. In fact, they may be standard grammatical features of GCE and Creole English. This section explores as well the nature and origin of some of the syntactic structures used by Grenadians with a view to facilitate the transition from SE to GCE, or vice versa.

Download or read book Lingering Effects of an Ancient Afro Romance Language on Common Speech in the Caribbean Island of Grenada written by Marguerite-Joan Joseph and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-02-22 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whereas Iola (Honoré) Joseph [1913-2006] was a fluent speaker of Creole French, she used the language only among her own siblings and mother (a widow) in the rural, ancestral, Honoré home, and not at all in the urban 'hurly-burly' of the Joseph family effort for economic survival. Consequently, The Author, the youngest daughter born to Iola in St. George's, and in her 40th year of life, learned very little of the Creole French. The Author, nostalgic for the loss of the language, subsequently learned the language more fully, and established as a memorial to Iola, her mother, a philanthropic entity Iola Initiative Industries, in 2007. The Grenada Creole Society formed in 2009 to research and promote the Patois (as the Creole French is called in Grenada) is a department of Iola Initiative Industries. In this publication by Iola Initiative Industries, The Author delivers an analysis of the decline of the Lesser Antillean Creole French in Grenada compared to St Lucia and Dominica. This decline is seen as surprising and paradoxical since these two nearby island members of the Windward Islands grouping, have socio-political histories that are very similar to that of Grenada. While tracing the origin, use and decline in use of the Patois of Grenada, the book introduces and explains the concept of a direct influence of The Walloon Language on the Grenadian variety of Creole French in such a manner as to produce certain of its previously undocumented, unique and colourful characteristics. This book would be of interest to Grenadian and other Caribbean people interested in their culture and history, to those with an interest in Caribbean Languages or Caribbean Studies, or in the links between the histories of Europe, Africa and the Caribbean countries.

Download or read book French Based Pidgins and Creoles written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Agalega Creole, Antillean Creole French, Bourbonnais Creole, Chagossian Creole, Chinook Jargon, French-based creole languages, French Guianese Creole, Haitian Creole, Haitian Creole Lexicon, Haitian Vodoun Culture Language, Labrador Inuit Pidgin French, Lanc-Patua creole, Louisiana Creole French, Mauritian Creole, Reunion Creole, Rodriguan Creole, Saint Lucian Creole French, Seychellois Creole, Tayo language, Tay B i. Excerpt: Haitian Creole (Kreyol ayisyen; pronounced: French: Creole haitien), often called simply Creole or Kreyol, is a language spoken by about twelve million people, which includes virtually the entire population of Haiti and via emigration, by about two to three million speakers residing in the Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominican Republic, France, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Ivory Coast, Martinique, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, the United States, and Venezuela. Haitian Creole is one of Haiti's two official languages, along with French. It is a creole based largely on 18th-century French and some West African languages, and has secondary influence from other languages. In school, all kids learn both Creole and French. Partly due to efforts of Felix Morisseau-Leroy, since 1961 Haitian Creole has been recognized as an official language along with French, which had been the sole literary language of the country since its independence in 1804. Its orthography was standardized in 1979. The official status was maintained under the country's 1987 constitution. The use of Haitian Creole in literature has been small but is increasing. Morisseau was one of the first and most influential authors to write in Haitian Creole. Since the 1980s, many educators, writers and activists have written literature in Haitian Creole. Today numerous newspapers, as well as radio and...

Download or read book Grenada and Carriacou English lexifier Creole s written by David J. Holbrook and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Verbs in Grenadian French Creole written by Peter Arthur Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Verb in Grenadian French Creole written by Peter Arthur Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles written by John Holm and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clear and concise introduction to the study of how new languages come into being.

Download or read book The Grenada Handbook Directory and Almanac written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Survival of People and Languages Schooners Goats and Cassava in St Barth lemy French West Indies written by Julianne Maher and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Survival of People and Languages: Schooners, Goats and Cassava in St. Barthelemy, French West Indies, Julianne Maher examines the enigmatic linguistic complexity of the island of St. Barthélemy in the French Caribbean, analyzes its four language varieties and traces the social history which caused its fragmentation.

Download or read book The U S Invasion of Grenada written by Philip Kukielski and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fall of 1983, arguably the coldest year of the decades-long Cold War, the world's greatest superpower invaded Grenada, a Marxist-led Caribbean nation the size of Atlanta. Why and how this unlikely one-week war was waged was shrouded in secrecy at the time--and has remained so ever since. This book is an overdue reconsideration of Operation Urgent Fury, based on historical evidence that only recently has been revealed in declassified documents, oral history interviews and memoir accounts. This chronological narrative emphasizes the human dimension of a sudden crisis now regarded as the greatest foreign policy challenge of President Ronald Reagan's first term. Because the American intervention was hastily drafted, many snafus and accidents marked the chaotic initial days of the operation. Inevitably it fell to individual soldiers, aviators and sailors to perform heroic acts to make up for faulty intelligence, inadequate communication or poor coordination. This work recounts their inspiring, underreported stories in filling out a more complete portrait of Operation Urgent Fury. The final chapter recounts the invasion's aftereffects, especially the unexpected role it played in Congressional reform of the military for future combat in the Middle East.

Download or read book That Winter written by Pamela Gillilan and published by Bloodaxe Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pamela Gillilan was born in London in 1918, married in 1948 and moved to Cornwall in 1951. When she sat down to write her poem Come Away after the death of her husband David, she had written no poems for a quarter of a century. Then came a sequence of incredibly moving elegies. Other poems followed, and two years after starting to write again, she won the Cheltenham Festival poetry competition. Her first collection That Winter (Bloodaxe, 1986) was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Poetry Prize.

Download or read book Skyred written by Bernard Coard and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-13 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an extraordinary work which covers both the author's life and the political history of the tiny island of Grenada in the Eastern Caribbean, from the 1951 uprising to the March 13, 1979 triumph of the Grenada Revolution. Starting at the age of six-and-a-half, the author witnesses a number of life-forming events, beginning with Grenada's violent revolutionary upheaval in 1951. This book brings to life the battles between Grenada's agricultural workers and very small farmers on one side, and the planter class and British colonial authorities on the other. The author describes, from personal observation as a young child, the many mass demonstrations and candle light processions of the workers while on general strike; each event unfolding in the tense atmosphere of the presence of hundreds of heavily armed British troops, and police from neighbouring islands brought in by the colonial authorities. The declared decision of the mass-uprising's leader to walk on sea water to attend a huge mass meeting on Grenada's Carenage at the height of the uprising is graphically described, as are the reactions of his supporters and detractors. This book also traces the evolution of the close personal and political friendship, begun at age 12, between Maurice Bishop (Grenada's Prime Minister 1979-'83) and the author, Bernard Coard (Grenada's Deputy Prime Minister during that same period). Their friendship deepens during their university years in the USA and Britain in the 1960s. Their experience of racism, exposure to the US civil rights struggles, the Vietnam War protests, the emergence of "Black Power," and the African decolonization struggle, help shape their ideological outlook, and the methods of political struggle that they and the other future leaders of Grenada would employ on returning to Grenada.Skyred describes the excitement, difficulties, and danger as the newly returned political leaders challenge the brutality and corruption set in motion by the very one who had led the 1951 workers' uprising. Maurice and Bernard's partnership of two decades would be a decisive element in the 1979 armed, mass-participatory overthrow of the Eric Gairy regime, and the establishment of the People's Revolutionary Government of Grenada.The day of the overthrow of the Eric Gairy government, March 13, 1979, is captured in vivid detail, as are the seeds of the political mistakes which would, less than five years later, lead to tragedy and disaster on an unprecedented scale.

Download or read book Grenada in Wartime written by Beverley A. Steele and published by Paria Publishing Company Limited. This book was released on 2011 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever looked up at the sky and seen a huge object coming towards you which you could not identify? Have you ever wondered what would happen if your country could import or export nothing at all? Have you experienced what it is like to have a loved one leave home and never come back? Have you ever waited months on end for a boat arrive that never does? For 60 years to pass and so many questions still left unanswered? Located in the Caribbean, one would think that Grenada was geographically distant from the chaos that was World War II. But the war not only significantly altered the daily lives of hundreds of Grenadians, but also influenced the culture of the Spice Isle as we know it today. With Grenada being a British colony at the time, many Grenadians went off to fight in the war, with relatives never knowing if they would ever see them again. The greatest tragedies during the war, however, happened close to home. On what turned out to be a baneful day - August 5th, 1944 - two boats left on an excursion from Grenada to St. Vincent. Only one, the Providence Mark arrived at its destination. The Island Queen disappeared with 67 passengers and crew and over 60 years later, there are still no answers to comfort those who lost relatives on that unlucky boat. The tragedy is still remembered although with the passage of time it is almost a completely new generation who recall this event, and who are morn. In 'Grenada in Wartime', each page is a learning experience, and as a reader you will get the chance to witness the reality of the island during the war, as well as how its people dealt, and continue to deal, with the ominous disappearance of the Island Queen. Steele's readers are given the opportunity to take a step through Grenada in the mid-1940s. Look into the minds of a child terrified by the sounds of war planes overhead, mothers and fathers doing their best to protect their families from the privations and horrors of the war, or the fathers and mothers who lost each other or vibrant youngsters with the mysterious disappearance of the Island Queen. Beverley A. Steele's Grenada in Wartime tells the collective story of what happened to the people of Grenada during World War II- their tragedies and remarkably resilient nature - in one steady breath. Steele acts as the voice of Grenada's population as she records the experiences of Grenada during World War II - the sacrifices, the hardships, the strength, the compassion, the innovations, and the Grenadian strength of will to keep on going. Grenada in Wartime also documents an admirable response to national tragedy. No one can ignore the disasters and hard times in their history, but they can keep them close to their hearts while they continue to do what they have to do to keep the society moving forward.

Download or read book Haitian English Dictionary written by Bryant Freeman and published by . This book was released on 2011-03-14 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Companion volume to our 6,000-word English-Haitian Dictionary. Contaings over 57,000 Haitian words and expressions. "There is no surer way to negate a people than to valify that which represnets their very essence: Their language. To defile the Haitian language is to defule the Haitian people."

Download or read book Gospel Hymns and Sacred Songs written by Philip Paul Bliss and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Grenada Revolution written by Bernard Coard and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A PAGE-TURNING WHO-DONE-IT. A MUST READ!" (Horace Levy, Sociologist, University Lecturer, Civil Society activist and Journalist, Jamaica) Finally, the inside story: honest, self-critical, and based on a wealth of credible and independent documentation. Bernard Coard reveals in dramatic detail the factors, forces and personalities which cumulatively led to deepening crisis within the Grenada Revolution and ultimately to wholesale tragedy. Bernard Coard, United States and British trained economist and university lecturer, played a leading role in the NJM and in the People's Revolutionary Government of Grenada. His experience, including 26 years as a political prisoner, offers a unique insight into the causes, course, and finally the implosion of the Revolution.