Mervyn Alleyne is Professor Emeritus of Caribbean Linguistics, and is currently based at the St. Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies.   His main research interests are Caribbean language and culture.  Prof. Alleyne is an honorary member and former president of the SCL, and an honorary member of the Linguistic Society of America.

Jeannette Allsopp is the Consultant Lexicographer/Director of the Caribbean Multilingual Lexicography Project, and a Part-time Lecturer in Linguistics at the U.W.I., Cave Hill.  She has been lecturing for over 30 years and has some 40 publications in the fields of Latin American literature, foreign language teaching methodology, and multilingual lexicography. She is the author of A Caribbean Multilingual Dictionary of Flora, Fauna and Foods.

BAILEY, Kathleen M.  “Communicative Language Teaching” and  “Promoting Innovations in Second Language Learning and Teaching”

Kathleen M. Bailey is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, California.  A former Director of TESOL M.A. Program and the Intensive ESL Program at MIIS, Dr. Bailey was awarded the Allen Griffin Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1985.  Dr. Bailey was also President of TESOL (1998-1999).  Dr. Bailey’s research interests include teacher education development, second language acquisition, language testing, classroom research, research methodology, and sociolinguistics.  Co-author/ editor of many well-known works including, Voices from the Language Classroom, and Focus on the Language Classroom, Dr. Bailey id currently writing a book on language teacher supervision.

Celia Brown-Blake is an attorney-at-law and a Lecturer in Law in the Department of Management Studies at the U.W.I.  Before studying law, she received an M.A. in Linguistics from U.W.I.  In addition to her legal specialisation in corporate law and financial regulation, she has a strong research interest in issues relating to the convergence of language and the law.  She is published in both linguistics and law.

cblake@uwimona.edu.jm or celianb@cwjamaica.com

Adrienne Bruyn is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Leiden Center of Linguistics (ULCL) and  Spinoza Program Lexicon and Syntax (SPLS).  Her main research interest areas are: development of creole languages in wider perspective of contact linguistics; historical linguistics in particular grammaticalization; the study of text types as sources for historical investigations.

BRYAN, Beverley.  “Making Language Visible: Language Awareness in a Creole-speaking Environment”

Beverley Bryan is a Senior Lecturer in Language Education in the Department of Educational Studies, The University of the West Indies, Mona.  Her research interests are: approaches to language and literacy teaching in a Creole-speaking environment, cross-cultural issues in Language Education and teacher formation.

Beverly-Anne Carter is Lecturer in French Language and Deputy Dean (Student Affairs), U.W.I., St. Augustine.  Her doctoral research was in linguistics applied to language learning, and her publications have been mainly in this area. Her interests include learner autonomy in language learning, CALL, and teacher education in ESL.

Becky Childs received her M.A. in English with a concentration in Linguistics from North Carolina State University and is now pursuing a Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of Georgia.  Her research interests include language variation and the relationship between ethnicity and identity in English dialects.  She has co-authored several articles, including a study of phonological processes in Bahamian English and an analysis of consonant cluster reduction in a regional variety of African American English. 

Serge Colot is preparing a Ph.D. Thesis dealing with Creole morphology, and is affiliated with two laboratories: FORELL (Formes et Représentations en Linguistique et Littérature) of the Université de Poitiers, and GEREC (Groupe d’Etudes et de Recherche en Espace Créolophone) of the Université des Antilles et de la Guyane. He takes a particular interest in a discipline long neglected, namely lexicology, which was the subject of his first book, Guide de lexicologie créole (2002).

Dennis Craig is Personal Professor of Language Education, UWI Mona (Retired), and a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Guyana.  He is currently an Education Consultant, and Director of Education & Research Associates (P.O. Box 1641, Kingston 6, Jamaica).  Professor Craig is an honorary member and former president of the SCL.

CROOKS, Emily.  “Definiteness in Jamaican Creole”

Emily Crooks is a postgraduate student in the Department of Language, Linguistics and Philosophy, The University of the West Indies, Mona.

Ken Decker, SIL International, has an M.A. in linguistics from the University of Texas, Arlington. He has conducted numerous sociolinguistic studies in northern Pakistan and at present is part of a team conducting a study of Caribbean Creole languages. His main linguistic interests are: Creole languages, sociolinguistics, and language endangerment.

Hubert Devonish is Professor of Linguistics at the University of the West Indies, Mona, where he has taught since 1978. He completed a D.Phil. on the issue of Creole language standardisation at the University of York, UK, in 1978. His publications include Language and Liberation: Creole Language Politics in the Caribbean (Karia Press, London, 1986), and Talking in Tone: A Study of Tone in Afro-European Creole Languages (Karia Press, 1989). 

Janet L. Donnelly is a Senior Lecturer at The College of The Bahamas, where she has taught since 1977 and has served variously as Chair and Assistant Chair of the Humanities Division, and Coordinator of Linguistics. Previously she taught at Niagara County Community College and the State University of New York College at Buffalo.  With a Bachelor’s and Master’s in linguistics from SUNYAB, Ms. Donnelly has maintained a keen interest in her field, with particular emphasis in creolinguistics, and has presented a number of papers and workshops on Bahamian Dialect. 

Susan Dray is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language at Lancaster University. Her general interests include literacy, sociolinguistics, critical discourse analysis and language education. More specifically, her current research interests are in the areas of orthography and Jamaican Creole. She is also interested in the use of photography as an ethnographic research tool, corpus linguistics as a research method and the general ethical issues that are involved when doing research with people. 

Walter Edwards holds a B.A. in English from the University of Guyana, an M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Lancaster, and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of York.  He is currently a full professor in linguistics and Director of the Humanities Center at Wayne State University.   His research interests include Guyanese Creole studies, African American Vernacular English, the sociolinguistics of rap lyrics, and language and culture.

James Essegbey (Leiden University) is working on verb syntax and semantics in Gbe languages of West Africa and their relation to creoles in Surinam within the research programme entitled "Transatlantic Sprachbund". The project is funded by the NWO (Dutch National Science Foundation) and Prof. Pieter Muysken's Spinoza fund. 

Ann Fergusson has been involved in the teaching profession for over 30 years: eight at primary and twenty three at the secondary level.  She is also an educator at the U.W.I. Cave Hill Campus where she tutors undergraduates in the course FD 10 H – Writing for Scientific and Business Purposes.  She holds a B.A. in English and a M.A. in Applied Linguistics.  She is currently enrolled in the Doctoral programme.

Jo-Anne S. Ferreira is a Lecturer in Linguistics at the U.W.I., St. Augustine and a member of SIL International. She received her Ph.D. in linguistics in 1999 from the U.W.I., where she also conducted her undergraduate studies. Her research interests include contact linguistics, Portuguese language and culture, French-lexicon Creoles and Bible translation.

Fred Field is an assistant professor in the Department of English at California State University, Northridge, one of the leading institutions of teacher education in the U.S. His specialties are language development and bilingual language phenomena. He has numerous publications including Linguistic Borrowing in Bilingual Contexts (John Benjamins, 2002). 

fredric.field@csun.edu

Marsha Forbes is a postgraduate student in the Department of Language, Linguistics and Philosophy, The University of the West Indies, Mona.

FORRESTER, Clive.  “Factors in the Survival of Maroon Creole in the Caribbean”

Clive Forrester is a first year student in the MPhil in Linguistics programme at the University of the West Indies, Mona.  His special research interests are in Creole linguistics as well as syntactic theory. Apart from studying linguistics, Clive is actively involved in the performing arts, being a senior member of the University Dramatic Arts Society (UDAS) where he has earned several awards. 

clive.forrester@uwimona.edu.jm

David Frank, Ph.D., University of Texas-Arlington (1983), moved to St. Lucia in 1984, and worked on an SIL field project with St. Lucian Creole until end of 2000. He is now living in the States. His interest continues in St. Lucian Creole, with the dictionary coming out this year, and he is presently serving as SIL linguistics consultant for the Americas area.

Shelome Gooden is a postgraduate student in the Department of Linguistics at Ohio State University.

Stephanie Hackert studied English, German, and Italian Language and Literature at the University of Heidelberg and Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT. She received German Teaching Diploma, fall 1995, and did six months of fieldwork in the Bahamas, 1997 and 1998. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg, July 2001, and currently teaches English and German as foreign languages at the universities of Heidelberg and Karlsruhe.

Alana Harewood graduated from U.W.I., St. Augustine in 2000 with a B.A. in Linguistics. While on campus, she read several gender courses which greatly influenced her final year project in Linguistics entitled ‘Language, Marriage and Gender’ for which she won a university prize. She is currently a secondary school English teacher.

Otelemate Harry is a Lecturer in Linguistics in the Department of Language, Linguistics and Philosophy, The University of the West Indies, Mona.

HINRICHS, Lars.  “Patois and E-mail: A Study of New Creole Writing Practices Developed by Jamaican University Students ”

Lars Hinrichs, born in 1973, has recently completed his studies in German and English language and literature and has moved on to English linguistics for his PhD. He has spent his years as a university student within Germany in the cities of Bonn, Leipzig, and Freiburg, and studied abroad in the American South.

Merle Hodge is a Senior Lecturer in English Language in the Department of Liberal Arts at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine.  She has focused on Caribbean Language and Literature and on gender issues in addition to her creative writing.  She is currently researching the language of Lovelace’s fiction.

David Holbrook has worked with SIL international doing language research among the Creole languages in the Eastern Caribbean for approximately 6 years. He has an M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Texas at Arlington and he is now a postgraduate student at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine.

Alison Irvine is a Lecturer in Linguistics in the Department of Language, Linguistics and Philosophy, The University of the West Indies, Mona.

Dhanis Jaganauth is a Lecturer in Linguistics in the Department of Language, Linguistics and Philosophy, The University of the West Indies, Mona.  

Winford James holds the Ph.D. in Linguistics from The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine and is a Lecturer in The Teaching of English and associated courses at the School of Education, Faculty of Humanities and Education at the University. One of his chief research interests is the scientific description of Creole speech, especially the Creole speech of his native Tobago. Formerly, he taught English, Spanish, and General Paper at the secondary level in Trinidad and Tobago for over 27 years.  

Silvia Kouwenberg has been a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics in the Department of Language, Linguistics & Philosophy at UWI (Mona) since 1991. Her research, mostly based on original fieldwork, has been on Caribbean Creoles of diverse lexical stock, including Berbice Dutch, Papiamentu, Jamaican and Saramaccan, and on Kalabari, the Nigerian substrate language of Berbice Dutch. Her publications range from descriptive and analytic studies of the synchronic grammars of Creole languages to Creole genesis-related publications.  

Darlene LaCharité, Darlene LaCharité, B.A., B.Ed., M.A., Ph.D., received undergraduate degrees in English from the University of Regina and postgraduate degrees in linguistics from the University of Ottawa, supervised by Doug Pulleyblank. From 1994-1996 she held a postdoctoral fellowship and was affiliated with the University of the West Indies. In 1997, she started teaching at Laval University, Quebec City (phonology, phonetics, L2 acquisition). Her research on loanword adaptation with Carole Paradis began in 1992.  She is currently Associate Professor at Laval University.  

Barbara Lalla is a Professor in Linguistics and Head of the Department of Liberal Arts at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine.  Her research areas are Caribbean language history and literary discourse.  She is also committed to her creative writing.  Professor Lalla is President of the SCL.

Glenda Leung, B.A., is a graduate of the University of Florida, and holds the Dip. TESOL from the U.W.I, St. Augustine.  She teaches English as a Foreign Language at the U.W.I., St. Augustine and is interested in the development of TEFL materials.

Keisha Evans has an M.A. in Applied Linguistics from the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine.  Her areas of research include: Cognitive Styles (Field dependence/ independence) and learning strategies as they relate to second language learning and critical thinking.

Anthony M. Lewis is Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics at Syracuse University.   He received his B.A. (Linguistics) from UC Santa Cruz (1991), his A.M. (1996) and Ph.D. (Spanish Linguistics) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2001).   His research specialties are laboratory phonology, the phonetics/phonology interface, cognitive linguistics, Spanish dialectology, and general phonological theory.  He is presently investigating articulatory reduction in the production of Spanish stop consonants, and phonetic motivation for phonotactic constraints in Spanish.  

Marva McClean is based at the University of the West Indies, Mona.

Helean McPhee is a final year Ph.D. student in the Department of Language, Linguistics and Philosophy, The University of the West Indies, Mona.  She is writing a thesis on predicate marking in the Bahamian basilect. She has a special interest in syntax, and hopes to produce a full syntactic description of Bahamian.

Bettina Migge received her PhD at the Ohio State University in 1998. She is presently Hochschulassistentin (Assistant Professor) at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Her main areas of research are sociolinguistics, language contact (creole formation), the creoles of Surinam and the Gbe languages. She teaches classes in general linguistics, sociolinguistics and applied linguistics

Sylvia Moodie-Kublalsingh, Ph.D., is the Director of the Centre for Language Learning (CLL) at the U.W.I., St. Augustine.  Her research interests include the Teaching of Spanish as a Second Language, the Teaching of Foreign Languages to young children, Hispanic Dialectology, Trinidadian Parang, and Trinidadian Spanish.  Her areas of specialisation are writing materials for teaching and learning Spanish as a foreign language.  Publications include The Cocoa Panyols of Trinidad: an Oral Record (1994), various other articles on Trinidadian Spanish, and Viva (textbooks with accompanying audiotapes).

Esperanza Luengo Cervera is a Foreign Language Instructor in Spanish language at the CLL and in the Department of Liberal Arts.  She holds a licenciatura in philology from the Universidad de Valencia, and her major research interests are second language acquisition and related methodology.

Alexis Perez Figuera is a Foreign Language Assistant at the CLL and his research interests include Foreign Language Methodology and Hispanic Semantics.

Pedro Cardozo teaches Spanish language at the CLL.

Dr. Zena T. Moore is Associate Professor of Foreign Langauge Education, College of Education, University of Texas at Austin.  Dr. Moore a highly acclaimed teacher/ teacher educator is the 1996 recipient of an Outstanding Award for Excellence in Teaching at the university of Texas at Austin.  Dr. Moore’s research interests centre on the eteaching of culture, the integration of technology in language learning/ teaching, research methodology and teacher supervision.  Dr. Moore is senior author of the well-known Español para la Vida series.  She chairs the ACTFL SIG on research and has published extensively in journals such as Foreign Language Annals and Hispania.

Susanne Mühleisen studied at the FU Berlin and the UWI, St. Augustine. She wrote her M.A. thesis on "Attitudes towards Language Varieties in Trinidad" (Berlin 1993). Her Ph.D. Dissertation is entitled "Creole Discourse: Exploring Prestige Formation and Change Across Caribbean English-Lexicon Creoles" (to appear, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, CLL no. 24). Susanne Mühleisen is a lecturer at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany.  

Salikoko S. Mufwene is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Ecology of Language Evolution (CUP 2001),helped translate and revise Robert Chaudenson's Creolization of Language and Culture (Routledge 2001), is the Editor of the series Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact, and has edited, among other works, Africanisms in Afro-American Language Varieties (University of Georgia Press 1993) and Topics in African Linguistics (Benjamins 1993). He chaired the Department of Linguistics at the University of Chicago from 1995 to 2001, and was a Visiting Professor at Harvard University in Spring 2002.  Professor Mufwene is an Executive member of the SCL.

Keren Niles is a postgraduate student in linguistics at the University of the West Indies.  Her principal research area is Sign Linguistics, particularly the grammar of Jamaican Sign Language.  Other research interests include dialogue analysis, psychology of language and theories of syntax.  

Peter Patrick was born in New York City and grew up in Jamaica. He received a B.A. in History from the University of Georgia in Athens, and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania. He teaches at the University of Essex in Colchester, and is the author of Urban Jamaican Creole (1999).

Esther Figueroa, born, raised and educated at UWI-Mona Jamaica, has degrees in History, Chinese and Linguistics. Her book Sociolinguistic Metatheory (Pergammon, 1994) shows her interests in historiography, philosophy and linguistic theory.  Currently working with Peter Patrick on “kiss teeth,”,Figueroa lives in Hawai'i where she has a media production company.  

Marsha Pearce is a final-year undergraduate student in the Department of Liberal Arts, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine.  

Velma Pollard is a retired Senior Lecturer in Language Education at UWI, Mona. Her major research interests have been Creole Languages of the Anglophone Caribbean, The Language of Caribbean Literature and CaribbeanWomen's Writing. She has published a handbook: From Jamaican Creole to Standard English – A Handbook for Teachers (1994) and a monograph Dread Talk – the Language of Rastafari (1994, 2000).  

Samuel Furé Davis is a Professor of English Language and Anglo-Caribbean Literature in the Faculty of Foreign Languages, University of Havana, Cuba. His publications include Academic and Creative Writing Exercises (ENPES, Havana, 1996), Lecturas Complimentarias (Techniprint Publishers, Accra 1997) and Cantos de Resistencia (Editorial Letras Cubanas, Havana 2000) in which he analyses of the lyrics of Reggae and dub-poetry feature as vehicles of resistance.

Paula Prescod, from St. Vincent, holds a first degree in Sciences du Langage from the Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier (1994), and a postgraduate degree from the Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, Schoelcher, Martinique (1999) on the “Influence of the Vincentian Vernacular on Learning French.”   She is a Ph.D. student at the Université Paris lll – Sorbonne-Nouvelle, and is working on a linguistic description of Vincentian Creole under the supervision of Daniel Véronique.  Her interests include syntax, sociolinguistics, phonology, and textual linguistics.  

Jeffrey Reaser is a Ph.D. student in the collaborative Duke-NC State English-linguistics programme.  His current research interests centre on two areas of sociolinguistics: how individual and group variation in Bahamian enclaves are related to ideologies of constructed and assigned ethnicity and sociophonetic perception experimentation.  

Peter Roberts is a Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Language, Literatures and Linguistics, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill.  Professor Roberts is a former SCL president.  His main research interests are Creole linguistics and the languages of the West Indies. 

IIan Robertson is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Education, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine.  His main research interests include Berbice and Skepi Dutch of Guyana, French-lexicon Creoles, English Language Teaching in Creole communities, Creole genesis, Caribbean oral traditions and the use of indigenous materials in education.  Dr. Robertson is a former SCL president.

Ferne Rogers is a first year M.Phil candidate from the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine.  She is attached to the Department of Liberal Arts, Faculty of Humanities and Education.  

Edgar W. Schneider is Full Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Regensburg, Germany, after previous appointments in Bamberg, Georgia, and Berlin. He has written and edited several books and published widely on the dialectology, sociolinguistics, history, semantics and varieties of English and English-related creoles, and edits the journal English World-Wide and an associated book series. 

Christian Wagner studied English Language and Literature and Classics (Latin) at the University of Regensburg and at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. Having worked with Prof. Schneider as a student assistant, he graduated in December 1999.  Subsequently, he successfully completed two years of teacher training. He is now a teacher of English and Latin at the Karl-von-Closen Gymnasium in Eggenfelden (Bavaria, Germany).  

Kathryn Shields Brodber is Senior Lecturer and Head Designate in the Department of Language, Linguistics and Philosophy, the U.W.I., Mona.  Her research, which focuses on discourse in Jamaica, includes publications on conversational interaction in the media, the language-gender interface, code switching and mixing, variation in Jamaican English, and a book-length manuscript on Talk Radio.  She is also the Caribbean collaborator on the ICE project (in collaboration with the University of Freiburg).

Jeff Siegel is Associate Professor in Linguistics at the University of New England (Australia) and Director of the Charlene Sato Center for Pidgin, Creole and Dialect Studies at the University of Hawai’i.  His research is on pidgins, creoles and other language contact varieties -- their origins and their use in formal eeducation. 

Hazel Simmons-McDonald, Ph.D., is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Language, Linguistics and Literature at the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Humanities on that campus.  She is also the Secretary-Treasurer of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics.  Dr. Simmons-McDonald is an applied linguist and does research on the acquisition of language by speakers of Creoles and vernaculars.  Recently she has been doing work on vernacular education.  Much of her research has focused on language learning in the Caribbean context and particularly in the context of St. Lucian Creole speakers.

Arthur K. Spears is chair and Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology at The City University of New York (CUNY). His research is on language and education, race and ideology, African-American English, and pidgin and creole languages, focusing on Haitian and other French creoles.  Professor Spears's most recent book is Race and Ideology: Language, Symbolism, and Popular Culture (editor, 1999).

Godfrey A. Steele teaches communication at the UWI, St. Augustine. His research interests include exploring links between linguistics and communication and contributing to curriculum development in medical communication skills and communication studies. He has a Ph.D. in Linguistics – “Teaching English for Communication Purposes in A Medical Context” and an M.A. in Education.

Michele Stewart is a Ph.D. candidate and part-time lecturer at UWI Mona.  The focus of her research is theoretical syntax, specifically negation in Jamaican Creole, and strong additional interests are in first language acquisition and Creole genesis.  She re-enters the field with a background in Education, Marketing and Information Systems.  

Monica Taylor is a lecturer in thhee Department of Language , Linguistics and Philosophy of the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus (Jamaica). Her current professional interests include classroom discourse (with emphasis on the teaching of English to speakers of Jamaican Creole), the use of collateral material (using a variety of media and platforms) to enhance college level writing skills, and the dynamics of teaching and learning the English language arts in large groups. She has been involved in teaching at the tertiary level since 1980. 

Riki Thompson recently finished her M.A. in English, with a concentration in Language and Rhetoric at the University of Washington in Seattle, where she will also continue on to finish her Ph.D. She taught EFL in Korea, where she discovered her interest in Applied Linguistics and language acquisition. She has since broadened her field of study to include:  language policy and language planning, language contact and language change, language and identity, and issues surrounding  African American Vernacular English.

Margot van den Berg is a Ph.D student working on the reconstruction of 18th century Sranan at the University of Asterdam. Her project is part of the Trans-Atlantic Sprachbund programme, in which the structural relationships between the Gbe languages and the Surinamese Creoles are investigated. From 1993 until 2000 she studied General Linguistics at the University of Nijmegen. The research underlying her master's thesis revealed a brief dialogue in Sranan in court records from 1707, antedating any other Sranan source known to exist.   

Enoch Aboh received his Ph.D in comparative syntax at the University of Geneva in 1998. The thesis focused on a micro-comparative analysis of the Gbe languages. A book will appear soon in the OUP series. From 1998 until 2001 he had a non-permanent teaching position at the University of Geneva. Since 2001 he holds a post-doctorate position at the University of Amsterdam, where he is working on the Trans-Atlantic Sprachbund programme to reveal the structural relationships that might exist between the Gbe languages and the Surinamese Creoles.  

Lise Winer, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education, McGill University, Canada. Her research interests are in two main areas: Teaching English as a Second Language, Methodology and Teacher Training, and Caribbean English Creoles, in educational, literary, linguistic and historical aspects.  Her current projects include the compilation and editing of a series of Resource Guides for TESL Student Teachers, the historical Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago and an edited series, Trinidad Roots: Novels from Trinidad, 1838-1907.   Dr. Winer is Vice-President of the SCL.

Donald Winford, B.A., D.Phil., is a Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics, Ohio State University, where he has been lecturing since 1988, and a former Senior Lecturer at the UWI, St. Augustine.  His research interests include Sociolinguistics, Contact Linguistics and Creole linguistics.  He has focused on the syntax of the Caribbean English-lexicon Creoles especially Guyanese, Jamaican and Trinidadian, and also African American English.  He is the author of Predication in Caribbean English Creoles (1993) and many articles and the editor of several books.  He is a former SCL president and is the editor of the Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages.  

Valerie Youssef is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics in the Department of Liberal Arts, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, where she teaches Sociolinguistics, Language Acquisition and English Language.  She has also developed TESOL at UWI.  Her research spans language acquisition in the Caribbean context, Tobagonian language, and discourse analysis.  Dr. Valerie Youssef is an Executive member of the SCL.

Hélène Zamor is an M.Phil. student in the Department of Language, Linguistics and Literatures at UWI Cave Hill, and is expecting to be upgraded to a Ph.D. candidate.  She is working in the area of French Caribbean music with special reference to Biguine and Zouk.  She was a researcher/keyboarder in the Caribbean Multilingual Lexicography Project, with special responsibility for doing research in the Francophone Caribbean and keyboarding the manuscript of A Caribbean Multilingual Dictionary of Flora, Fauna and Foods.