The Syntax of Serial Verbs: An investigation into serialisation in Sranan and other languages
Mark Sebba
[Creole Language Library, 2] 1987. xv, 218 pp.
Mark Sebba
List of John Benjamins publications for which Mark Sebba plays a role.
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Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Syntax
2020 Bilingual newspapers as sites of multilingual practice Literacies in Contact, Böhm, Manuela and Constanze Weth (eds.), pp. 272–288 | Article
This paper discusses multilingualism in three publications aimed at bilingual communities in Britain: speakers of Russian, Greek and Tagalog. Despite the fact that the editorial content in such publications is almost completely monolingual, they are sites rich in multilingual written practices.… read more
2017 ‘English a foreign tongue’: The 2011 Census in England and the misunderstanding of multilingualism Journal of Language and Politics 16:2, pp. 264–284 | Article
The 2011 UK Census was the first ever to ask a question about language in England. The period during which the census was planned coincided with a period of intense politicisation of the language issue, which had previously not been a major point of controversy. The census results showed that… read more
2015 Iconisation, attribution and branding in orthography The Historical Sociolinguistics of Spelling, Villa, Laura and Rik Vosters (eds.), pp. 208–227 | Article
This paper discusses three processes relating to the social meaning of scripts and orthographies, all of which are potentially mediated by the role of script-as-image. One of these processes, iconisation, was introduced to the field by Irvine and Gal (2000) and is widely known. Attribution is a… read more
2013 The visual construction of language hierarchy: The case of banknotes, coins and stamps Journal of Language and Politics 12:1, pp. 101–125 | Article
This paper analyses the way in which the text displayed on bilingual and multilingual currency (banknotes and coins) and stamps constructs and reproduces linguistic hierarchies, reflecting the relative status of the languages within the issuing country. The paper briefly discusses the selection of… read more
2011 ‘Creole’ and youth language in a British inner-city community Variation in the Caribbean: From creole continua to individual agency, Hinrichs, Lars and Joseph T. Farquharson (eds.), pp. 231–250 | Article
This chapter draws on ethnographic research among adolescents in an inner-city area of Manchester, England, which has traditionally been seen as the centre of a ‘Caribbean community.’ We describe how young people in this area from a variety of ethnic backgrounds are using Creole language forms, and… read more
2006 Ideology and alphabets in the former USSR Language Problems and Language Planning 30:2, pp. 99–125 | Article
In 2002 the Russian parliament passed a law requiring all official languages within the Russian Federation to use the Cyrillic alphabet. The legislation caused great controversy and anger in some quarters, especially in Tatarstan, the Russian republic whose attempt to romanise the script for the… read more
2003 Spelling rebellion Discourse Constructions of Youth Identities, Androutsopoulos, Jannis and Alexandra Georgakopoulou (eds.), pp. 151–172 | Article
2001 Review of Kress (2000): Early spelling: Between convention and creativity Written Language & Literacy 4:2, pp. 261–264 | Review
2001 9. Writing switching in British Creole Multilingual Literacies: Reading and writing different worlds, Martin-Jones, Marilyn and Kathryn E. Jones (eds.), pp. 171–188 | Chapter
1998 Phonology Meets Ideology: The Meaning of Orthographic Practices in British Creole Language Problems and Language Planning 22:1, pp. 19–47 | Article
ZUSAMMENFASSUNG Wo Phonologie und Ideologie einander treffen: die Bedeutung onthographischer Konventionen im Britischen Kreol Dieses Artikel behandelt die Orthographie einer unstandardisierten schriftlichen Sprachvarietät, des Kreol, mit primär Englischem Lexikon, das von Britishen Schriftstellern… read more
1986 Adjectives and Copulas in Sranan Tongo Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 1:1, pp. 109–121 | Article
Some linguists regard predicate adjectives in Sranan and other creole languages as stative verbs, one argument being the absence of a copula before such adjectives. An analysis by Seuren, on the other hand, treats predicate adjectives as true adjectives in Sranan: an underlying copula fails to… read more