SOCIETY FOR CARIBBEAN LINGUISTICS

PAST CONFERENCES

FIFTH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE

THEME
"Synchronic and Diachronic Aspects of Language"

Jamaica, 29 August to 1 September 1984

 


CONFERENCE PAPERS



Alleyne, Mervyn. "Perfect and passive."

de Ariza, Mireille M. "Variation géographique des phénomènes morphophonologiques dans l'expression de l'idée d'appartenance en créole haïtien."

Boero de Peters, Amalia. "Linguistic sexism in Papiamento: Myth or Reality?"

Carrington, Lawrence D. "Revising the analysis of linguistic variation inthe Caribbean."

Cassidy, Fred. "Etymology in Caribbean creoles."

Christie, Pauline. "Aspects of modality in Jamaican Creole."

Cooper, Vincent O. "The St. Kitts Angolares: A closer look at current theories of language development in the Caribbean."

Craig, Dennis. "Universals of Creole and conceptualization."

Dalphinis, Morgan. "Island Carib influences in St. Lucian Patwa."

De Bose, Charles. The be verb in Samaná English."

Edwards, Walter F. "Socializing the continuum: Guyanese sociolinguistic culture as social networks."

Eersel, Christian. "Stedman's Sranan - Notes and queries."

Escure, Genevieve. "The Belizean continuum in apparent time."

Farquhar, Bernadette. "Some observations on the use of Creole in Guadeloupe and Antigua."

Gilbert, Glenn G. "Hugo Schuchardt and the Atlantic Creoles."

Greene, Ervin L. and Priscilla Baptista Sharpe. "Structure of the Sea Island folktale."

Haynes, Lilith M. "The Caribbean short-story in diachronic perspective."

Herzfeld, Anita. "Exploring conversational involvement."

Holder, Maurice A. "The compound stress rule in Guyanese English."

Holm, John. "Creole influence on popular Brazilian Portuguese."

Instituto Lingwistiko Antiano. "The standardization of Papiamentu: problems and possibilities."

Kephart, Ron. "Literacy through Creole English: Report on an applied project."

Labadie Solano, Jorge G.R. "A brief survey on proposals on Papiamento orthography and some examples of mixed strategies in Papiamento orthography as applied by various Dutch Antillean authors."

Lalla, Barbara. "Tracing elusive phonological features of Early Jamaican Creole."

Lawton, David L. "Tone structure and function in Jamaica Creole."

LePage, Robert B. "The need for a multidimensional model."

Mettler, Sally. "Acculturation, communication apprenhension, and language acquisition."

Miller, Faye. "Jamaican English: Native or non-native?"

Nylander, Dudley K. "On the derivation of compound nouns in Krio."

Pochard, Jean-Charles and Hubert Devonish. "Deixis in Caribbean English-lexicon creoles: A description of A, DA and DE."

Pollard, Velma. "The English past tense and the Jamaican Creole classroom."

Rickford, John. "The historical and sociohistorical signficance of early Guyanese texts."

Roberts, Peter. "Innate Mechanisms: Historical and current considerations."

Robertson, Ian. "Some characteristics of post creole transition."

Sebba, Mark. "Serial verb or syntactic calque: the great circuit of say ."

Shields, Kathryn. "The significance of word-final t/d consonant clusters for syllable structuring in Standard Jamaican English."

Spears, Arthur K. "Questions of meaning in the Haitian Creole verbal system."

Tagliamonte, Sali and Shana Poplack. "How Black English PAST got to the present: Evidence from Samaná."

Thompson, Claudith. "Comprehension skills at the pre-secondary level: A preliminary report."

Tomlin, Carol. "Black preaching style."

Williams, Jeffrey. "Preliminaries to the study of the dialects of white Caribbean English."

Winer, Lise. "Standardization of orthography for Trinidad and Tobago English Creole."

Winford, Donald. "Aspects of the syntax of FI complements in Caribbean English creole."

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