Language Issues in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

1. Acknowledgements; 2. Introduction; 3. Sociohistorical and linguistic account of St Vincent and the Grenadines (by Prescod, Paula); 4. The fate of the local in light of the global: Analysis of variation in the use of preverbal markers in Bequia Creole (by Daleszynska, Agata); 5. Subject and object pronoun use in Bequia (St Vincent and the Grenadines) (by Meyerhoff, Miriam); 6. "A she gi me words; well me gi she back de change": The reframing of stigmatized talk by everyday women-of-words in St Vincent (by Fortenbery, Elizabeth); 7. The distribution of diagnostic features in English-lexified contact languages: Vincentian (by Avram, Andrei A.); 8. Creole reflexes of do: Zeroing in on tense, aspect and modality in Vincentian Creole (by Prescod, Paula); 9. Languages in St Vincent and the Grenadines: An annotated bibliography (by Cromer, Donna E.); 10. Biographical notes on the contributors; 11. Subject, Language and Place Index; 12. Name Index