John A. Holm
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Who is John A. Holm?
John A. Holm is Chair of English Linguistics and History of Civilizations at the University of Coimbra, Portugal.
He received a Ph. D. in linguistics from the University of London in 1978 with his thesis "The creole English of Nicaragua's Miskito Coast : its sociolinguistic history and a comparative study of its lexicon and syntax" He is a specialist on the history and languages of the Caribbean peoples, and the author of many books and articles on those subjects. He is editor with Susanne Maria Michaelis of the series Contact languages : critical concepts in language studies.
Thanks to the study of creoles, he showed that because of its importance in Barbados, the white population is the starting point of most of the english creoles that are spoken by the Indian, white and black peoples in most parts of the Caribbean and Carolina.
He also wrote the only one dictionary of Bahamian English.
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