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The SCL has published two compilations of Conference proceedings, entitled Studies in Caribbean Language I (1983), 26 papers edited by Lawrence Carrington et al, and  Studies in Caribbean Language II  (1998), 19 papers edited by Pauline Christie et al.  The Society has recently published Robert B. LePage's Ivory Towers: Memoirs of a Pidgin Fancier (2002).

The SCL also publishes the SCL Occasional Papers (OP) Series, and the SCL Popular Series. The SCL OP Series makes scholarly productions of our members accessible to the wider community of linguists, and topics of OPs range from studies on phonological variation to the grammar of Dutch, English and French Creoles, Afro-Seminole, and Caribbean English. The Popular Papers appeal to those with a non-specialist interest in language, and in particular, language in the Caribbean. Topics of papers in this series include the importance of Creole Language Studies and research, and the role of Jamaican Creole in education. See below for a full listing of both Series, as well as an order form for available books and papers.

 

 

SCL BOOKS

CARRINGTON, Lawrence D., in collaboration with Dennis R. Craig and Ramón Todd Dandaré, eds. Studies in Caribbean Language.  St. Augustine: SCL, 1983.

**Cost: TTD150 or USD25 (plus postage).**

CHRISTIE, Pauline G., Barbara Lalla, Velma Pollard, and Lawrence D. Carrington, eds. Studies in Caribbean Language II - Papers from the Ninth Biennial Conference of the SCL, 1992. St. Augustine: SCL, 1998.

**Cost: TTD150 or USD25 (plus postage).**

LePage, Robert B. Ivory Towers: The Memoirs of a Pidgin Fancier. Cave Hill: SCL, 2002.
**Cost: TTD180 or USD30 (plus postage).**

Ivory Towers is this celebrated scholar's personal memoir of 50 years of professional work on language and Caribbean language in particular, in universities around the world. The recollections represent an individual mind, filtering experience through a lens shaped by his time, and offers a range of vision likely to interest many within and outside the field of linguistics.

 

SCL OCCASIONAL PAPERS SERIES

(originally Working Papers)

Papers still available are highlighted with an * and are available at USD3 each. Any four OP and/or PP titles are available at the cost of USD10 (not including postage).

Click here for a thematic index of both series
(organised by geographical area and linguistics sub-discipline).

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ALLSOPP, S.R. Richard. Africanisms in the Idiom of Caribbean English (OP No.6, c. 1977)

*ALLSOPP, S.R. Richard. The Case for Afrogenesis (OP No.33, July 2006). Click on the title for the abstract.

*ALLSOPP, S.R. Richard. The Afrogenesis of Caribbean Creole Proverbs (OP No.34, July 2006). Click on the title for the abstract.

*AMASTAE, Jon. Complements of Factive and Inceptive Verbs in Dominican French Creole (OP No.22, Oct 1988)

*AUB-BUSCHER, Gertrud. African Survivals in the Lexicon of Trinidad French-based Creole (OP No.23, Apr 1989) (Check out this online article on TFC by Gertrud Aub-Buscher.)

BROADBRIDGE, Claire. Some Devices for Focus in Trinidadian (OP No.14, May 1980)

CARTER, Hazel. Evidence for the Survival of African Prosodies in West Indian Creoles (OP No.13, Oct 1979)

CHRISTIE, Pauline G. Assertive 'No' in Jamaican Creole (OP No.10, Jan 1979)

*De BOSE, Charles E. Be in Samaná English (OP No.21, Aug 1988)

*DEVONISH, Hubert S. and Walter SEILER. A Reanalysis of the Phonological System of Jamaican Creole (OP No.24, Oct 1991)

EDWARDS, Walter F.  Sociolinguistic Models and Phonological Variation in Guyana (OP No.8, c. 1978)

GRAHAM, McVey, Jr.  Caribbean French Creole Survey (OP No.19, Aug 1985)

HANCOCK, Ian F.  Creole Features in the Speech of an Afro-Seminole Speaker of Bracketville, Texas (OP No.3, May 1975)

HANCOCK, Ian F.  Further Observations on Afro-Seminole Creole (OP No.7, Feb 1978)

HANCOCK, Ian F.  English in St. Helena: Creole Features in an Island Speech (OP No.11, Feb 1979)

*HOLBROOK, David J. Grenada and Carriacou English-Lexifier Creole(s): One Language or Two? (OP No.31, Mar 2005). Click on the title for the abstract.

HUTTAR, George L.  A Creole-Amerindian Pidgin of Suriname (OP No.15, Jul 1982)

*HUTTAR, George L.  Notes on Kwinti, a Creole of Central Suriname (OP No.20, May 1988)

*JAGANAUTH, Dhanis. Time Reference in Two Creoles: the Non-Referential Component (OP No.26, Aug 1988)

JAMES, Winford. The Noun Phrase in Tobagonian (OP No.28, Apr 2001)

*LALLA, Barbara. Virtual Realism: Constraints on Validity in Textual Evidence of Caribbean Language History (OP No.32, Apr 2005). Click on the title for the abstract.

LePAGE, Robert B. 'Projection, Focussing, Diffusion,' or, Steps towards a Sociolinguistic Theory of Language, illustrated from the Sociolinguistic Survey of Multilingual Communities.  Stages I: Cayo District, Belize (formerly British Honduras), and II: St. Lucia (OP No.9, Jul 1978)

*PATRICK, Peter L. Caribbean Creoles and the Speech Community (OP No.30, Jun 2002). Click on the title for the paper, available on the author's website.

RICKFORD, John R. Standard and Non-Standard Attitudes in a Creole Continuum (OP No.16, Jul 1982)

ROBERTS, Peter A. Speech of 6-Year Old Jamaican Children (Working Paper No.1, 1973)

*ROBERTS, Peter A.  'Have' and 'Be' in Caribbean Creoles: Elements of Continuity from Lexifier Languages (OP No.25, Oct 1997)

ROBERTSON, Ian E.  Dutch Creole in Guyana: Some Missing Links (OP No.2, Sept 1974)

ROBERTSON, Ian E.  Dutch Creole Speakers and Their Location in Guyana in the 19^th and Early 20^th Centuries (OP No.4, c. 1975)

ROBERTSON, Ian E.  A Preliminary Word List of Berbice Dutch (OP No.5, June 1976)

ROBERTSON, Ian E.  Redefining the Post-creole Continuum: Evidence from Berbice Dutch (OP No.17, 1982)

SHILLING, Alison Watt. Black English as a Creole: Some Bahamian Evidence (OP No.18, May 1984)

*WILNER, John. Non-Temporal Uses of ben in Sranan Tongo (OP No.27, May 2000)

WINFORD, Donald C. Phonological Variation and Change in Trinidadian English: The Evolution of the Vowel System" (OP No.12, Jun 1979)

WINFORD, Donald C. On the Typology of Creole TMA Systems (OP No.29, Jun 2001)

 

SCL POPULAR SERIES PAPERS

*ALLEYNE, Mervyn C. Indigenous Languages in the Caribbean (PP No.3, Jun 2004). Click on the title for the abstract.

*LOUISY, Dame Pearlette. Keynote address to the 12^th Biennial Conference (PP No.1, Apr 2001)

POLLARD, Velma. The Role of Jamaican Creole in Language Education (PP No.2, Aug 2002)

*WINER, Lise. Creole in the Kitchen: Lexical Recipes from Trinidad (PP No.4, Jul 2004). Click on the title for the abstract.

* Still available. Each title is available at USD3, and any four OP and/or PP titles available at the cost of USD10 (not including postage).

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