(in prep) Lexical Morphology in Jamaican Creole: A Description
of Verb
Compounding’
‘Faiya-bon: The Socio-Pragmatics of Jamaican (Dancehall)
Culture’ in Politeness, Face, and the Linguistic Construction.
of Personhood in Caribbean Creoles. Susanne Mühleisen & Bettina
Migge (eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Review of Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli
Hebrew. By
Ghil'ad Zuckermann. New York: Palgrave, 2003. Published on LINGUIST
List [pdf]
Book notice for Creole Discourse: Exploring Prestige Formation
and Change
Across Caribbean English-lexicon Creoles. (CLL 24) By Susanne Mühleisen,
Susanne. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 2002. In Language.
Book notice for Léxico bilingüe, aparai-português
/ português-aparai. By Eliane Camargo Munich: Lincom Europa.
in Language 80.
Review of Rasta Is Cuss: A Dictionary of Rastafarian Cursing.
By Thomas H. Slone. In Caribbean Quarterly.
2004
2005) Book notice for A History of the Spanish Language. 2nd
edition. By Ralph
Penny. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. in Language 80.
2002
‘Literary Revolution and Decolonisation in Louise Bennett’s
Poetry’ Sargasso 2002:2 (New Century/New Horizons: Emerging
Scholars of Caribbean Literature, Languages and Cultures), 45-55.
Presentations
2005
‘Awaiting the Disappearing Act: Is Jamaica Creole Merging
with English?
Presentation done at University of Freiburg, Germany. 31 May.
‘Substrate Influence in the Lexicon of Jamaican
Creole: A Comparative-
Typological Study’ Colloquium at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology. 21 January 2005. [pdf]
2004
‘The Syntax and Semantics of Nominal Compounds in Jamaican
Creole’ Paper presented at the Society for Caribbean Linguists – Curacao,
11-15 August, 2004.
(in prep.) ‘Lexical Innovation: Occasionalisms in Jamaican’ (tentative
title)
(in prep.) ‘Substrate Etymology in Jamaican Creole: A Historical
and Critical Excursus’ [First chapter of dissertation]
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology - Department of Linguistics