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Renewal of Membership | SCL Executive Committee | Past Presidents Honorary Members | News for Members
The current members of the SCL
come from over 25 different countries around the world, and represent various universities,
academic institutions, government ministries, schools and private organisations. Our
research concerns focus on Caribbean languages of all origins and eras, including
Amerindian languages from the pre-Columbian era, and languages of the colonial era
including European, African, Asian, and above all, Caribbean creole languages. Click here for a list of our current members and their homepages.
Click here to
access the Constitution of our Society in English, here for the
Dutch version, here for the
French version, and here for the
Spanish version.
Benefits of Membership
Annual membership dues also cover the Society's journal
publications, which include two issues of the
SCL Occasional Papers, and one issue of the Popular Series, plus regular SCL
bulletins publicising SCL and
related conferences, and giving news of publications of interest to the membership. Any member may submit an article for review for
publication, in either of the Society's series. Members are also entitled to preferential conference rates.
Any individual or institution interested in
becoming a member should complete the downloadable application form below (in both pdf
format and Word) and send it in, with dues, and an e-mail message, to the Secretariat
at UWI, St. Augustine, or to the SCL Financial Officers on the Cave Hill and Mona
campuses of the UWI. (See addresses on the downloadable form below, as well as on the
contact information page.)
Dues are payable to the following SCL Financial Officers
(student members pay half the regular rate):
Renewal of
Membership
Downloadable Membership Application/Renewal Form (PDF
format)
Downloadable Membership Application/Renewal Form
(Word)
Hazel Simmons-McDonald,
The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill (President)
John Rickford, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill (Vice-President)
Jo-Anne S. Ferreira, The University of the West Indies,
St. Augustine (Secretary-Treasurer)
Jeannette Allsopp, Caribbean Multilingual Lexicography Project, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill (Officer)
Janet Donnelly, College of the Bahamas (Officer)
Bettina Migge, University College Dublin (Officer)
Rocky R. Meade, The University of the West Indies,
Mona (Publications Officer)
Immediate Past President: Salikoko Mufwene, University of Chicago
1972 — Frederic Gomes Cassidy,
deceased (Jamaica) — University of Wisconsin. (See tributes to Fred Cassidy.)
1976 — S.R. Richard Allsopp
(Guyana) — The
University of the West Indies, Cave
Hill
1978 — Robert B. Le Page, deceased (England) — University of York
1980 — Dennis R. Craig, deceased (Guyana) — The University of the West
Indies, Mona
1984 — Ramón Todd
Dandaré (Aruba) — Institute of Linguistics Studies
1986 — Lawrence D. Carrington
(Trinidad & Tobago) — The University
of the West Indies, St. Augustine
1982 — Christian Eersel (Suriname)
— University of
Suriname
1988 — Pauline G. Christie
(Jamaica) — The University of the West
Indies, Mona
1990 — Mervyn C. Alleyne (Trinidad & Tobago) — The University of
the West Indies, Mona
1992 —
1994 — Hubert S. Devonish (Guyana)
— The University of the West
Indies, Mona
1996 — Ian E. Robertson (Guyana) —
The University of the West
Indies, St. Augustine
1998 — Donald C. Winford
(Trinidad & Tobago) — Ohio State University
2000 — Barbara E. Lalla (Jamaica)
— The University of the West
Indies, St. Augustine Click here for a list of past Executive Secretaries of the SCL.
Mervyn C. Alleyne (1998) S.R. Richard Allsopp (1994) Frederic G. Cassidy (1980, deceased 2000) Pauline G. Christie (1998) Dennis R. Craig (1990, deceased 2004) Robert B. Le Page (1982, deceased 2006) Antoine J. Maduro (1980) Douglas Macrae Taylor (1978)
Linguistic Human Rights: A Sociolinguistic Introduction, available as a pdf file.
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