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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of abbreviations and symbols -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Negative inversion in Texas, in three varieties of English -- Chapter 2 Negative inversion and its contents -- Chapter 3 Negative inversion, existential sentences, and definite subjects -- Chapter 4 Negative inversion and its discontents -- Chapter 5 Negative inversion and emphatic meanings -- Chapter 6 Negative inversion is a formal idiom -- Conclusion -- References -- Index

"In the period following the country's independence in 1981, Kriol has risen to the level of a national language. While the prestige enjoyed by English and Spanish is indisputable, a range of historical and socio-economic developments has given Kriol an elevated status in the coastal districts at the potential expense of more vulnerable minority languages also spoken there. Using fieldwork, ethnographic observations, interviews, and surveys of language attitudes and use, Gómez Menjívar and Salmon show the attenuation of Mopan and Garifuna alongside the stigmatized yet robust Kriol language. Examin[es] how large-scale economic restructuring can unsettle relationships among minority languages" --