Papers/Books

Final Report on NSF Grant #BCS-0113826 RF Project # 741792 "The influence of West African languages on the TMA systems of two Surinamese creoles."

NSF Project Summary (Word document)

An Introduction to Contact Linguistics. 2003. Oxford: Blackwell. 442 pages.

Some Older Papers on Creoles

2000. "Tense and Aspect in Sranan and the creole prototype". In John McWhorter (ed.) Language Change and Language Contact in Pidgins and Creoles. Amsterdam: Benjamins. pp. 383-442.

2001. "Intermediate creoles and degrees of change in creole formation: the case of Bajan." In Degrees of restructuring in Creole Languages, ed. By Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh and Edgar W. Schneider, 215-245. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2002. Creoles in the context of Contact Linguistics. In Glenn Gilbert (ed.) Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in the twenty-first century, 287-354. New York: Peter Lang.

Some Older Papers in Sociolinguistics

1994. "Sociolinguistic approaches to language use in the Anglophone Caribbean." In M. Morgan (ed) Language and the social construction of reality in creole situations, 43-62. Los Angeles: Center for Afro-American Studies, UCLA.

"The other Englishes: A Contact Linguistics perspective" Anglistica, Vol. 3:1, 201-17. (1999), English and the Other, Ed. by: Marie-Hélène Laforest and Jocelyne Vincent.

"Variation Theory: A view from creole continua" Cuadernos de Filología Inglesa 8, 219-37, 1999.

Some Older Papers on African American English

"On the origins of African American Vernacular English - A creolist perspective. Part 1: Sociohistorical Background". Diachronica XIV:2, 305-344, Fall 1997.

"On the origins of African American Vernacular English - A creolist perspective. Part 2: Linguistic Features." Diachronica XV:1, Spring 1998.

2003. "Ideologies of language and socially-realistic linguistics" In S. Makoni, G. Smitherman, A. Ball & A. Spears (eds.) Black Linguistics: Language, society, and politics in Africa and the Americas, pp. 21-39. London & NY: Routledge

Papers Accepted for Publication

In Press

"Contact-induced change: classification and processes." To appear in ( Diachronica. (Word version; PDF version)

"The Surinamese Creoles: Morphology and syntax. To appear in Edgar Schneider (ed.) Handbook of Varieties of English around the world. Mouton de Gruyter. In Press. (with Bettina Migge)

"The restructuring of tense and aspect in creole formation." To appear in Ana Deumert & Stephanie.Durrleman (eds.) Proceedings of the 2002 - 2004 SPCL conferences. Creole Language Library Series. John Benjamins.

To Appear

"Atlantic Creole syntax." To appear in John Singler & Sylvia Kouwenberg (eds.). Handbook of pidgin and creole languages. Benjamins.

"Tense and Aspect in Belize creole". To appear in H. Simmons-McDonald (Ed.), Exploring the boundaries of Caribbean Creole Languages: A festschrift for Pauline Christie, The Press, University of the West Indies, Jamaica.

"Caribbean English-lexicon creoles: History, structure and use." To appear in Arthur Spears (ed.) Language in the African Diaspora. Submitted and under review.

"Revisiting relexification in creole formation. To appear in Janet Fuller & Linda Thornburg (eds.) Studies in Contact Linguistics: Essays in Honor of Glenn G. Gilbert. Peter Lang. (PDF Version)

Papers in Preparation

"A comparison of tense and aspect in the creoles of Suriname and Gbe". To appear in B. Migge and N. Smith (eds.). Transatlantic Sprachbund? Special issue of the Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages.(with Bettina Migge).

"Pidgin Syntax" To appear in Ellen Barton et al. Small Utterances: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, John Benjamins

"Substrate influence on the TMA systems of the Surinamese creoles" Ms. In preparation.

Manuscripts

Creole Formation and Second Language Acquisiton (Word document)

Conference Presentations

Re-examining relexification in creole formation. SPCL, Jan. 2004, Boston.

Decomposing potentiality in the Surinamese creoles. Society for Caribbean Linguistics, Curaçao, August 2004.

"Future and possibility in the Surinamese Creoles" (SPCL Jan. 2006)

Invited Lectures

Contact-induced change: processes and classification. Dept. of Linguistics, Indiana University.

My top priority remains the completion of my NSF-funded research project with my co-PI, Bettina Migge. We have begun publishing our findings on the influence of Gbe and Kikongo on the Tense/aspect systems of Sranan Tongo and the Eastern Maroon Creole of Suriname.

We plan to create a computerized database that will be available as a resource for future research on Gbe and Suriname.

We were granted a one-year extension and supplemental funding for the period October 2003 to September 2004. This allowed us to complete our data collection as well as to fine-tune our analyses, with input from 3 consultants who are native speakers of Gbe languages, and themselves well-known linguists.

Several students have been involved in this research as GRA's responsible for sorting the data and extracting examples of TMA markers from the transcriptions of our recorded conversations.