John Victor Singler
List of John Benjamins publications for which John Victor Singler plays a role.
Book series
Title
Pidgin and Creole Tense/Mood/Aspect Systems
Edited by John Victor Singler
[Creole Language Library, 6] 1990. xvi, 240 pp.
Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Semantics | Syntax
Are creoles a special type of language? Methodological issues in new approaches to an old question Advances in Contact Linguistics: In honour of Pieter Muysken, Smith, Norval, Tonjes Veenstra and Enoch O. Aboh (eds.), pp. 107–158 | Chapter
2020 This paper takes as its starting point Muysken’s (1988a: 300) view of a ‘creole’ language as “just a language.” With this statement, Muysken rejects the idea of a creole prototype. Over the past 20 years, that idea has seen several new proponents. We provide a brief overview, before turning our… read more
Samaná and Sinoe, Part II: Provenance Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 22:2, pp. 309–345 | Article
2007 Samaná and Sinoe, Part I: Stalking the vernacular Substrate Influence in Creole Formation, Migge, Bettina and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 123–148 | Article
2007 Children and creole genesis Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 21:1, pp. 157–173 | Miscellaneous
2006 Yes, but not in the Caribbean Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 21:2, pp. 337–358 | Miscellaneous
2006 Optimality Theory, the Minimal-Word Constraint, and the Historical Sequencing of Substrate Influence in
Pidgin/Creole Genesis Language Change and Language Contact in Pidgins and Creoles, McWhorter, John H. (ed.), pp. 335–352 | Article
2000 On the Marking of Temporal Sequencing in Vernacular Liberian English Creole Genesis, Attitudes and Discourse: Studies celebrating Charlene J. Sato, Rickford, John R. and Suzanne Romaine (eds.), pp. 337–352 | Article
1999 John Victor Singler in response to Derek Bickerton Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 14:1, pp. 217–218 | Miscellaneous
1999 The Demographics of Creole Genesis in the Caribbean: A Comparison of Martinique and Haiti The Early Stages of Creolization, Arends, Jacques (ed.), pp. 203–232 | Article
1996 Theories of Creole Genesis, Sociohistorical Considerations, and the Evaluation of Evidence: The Case of Haitian Creole and the Relexification Hypothesis Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 11:2, pp. 185–230 | Article
1996 In an early Caribbean colony the conversion from other crops to sugar monoculture utterly transformed the colony's society and arguably its language as well. A comparative quantitative analysis of the populations of Haiti and Martinique makes the case that the initial period of creole genesis on… read more
An African-American Linguistic Enclave: Tense and Aspect in Liberian Settler English Historical Linguistics 1989: Papers from the 9th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, New Brunswick, 14–18 August 1989, Aertsen, Henk and Robert J. Jeffers (eds.), pp. 457–466 | Article
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Liberian Settler English and the Ex-Slave Recordings: A Comprative Study The Emergence of Black English: Text and commentary, Bailey, Guy, Natalie Maynor and Patricia Cukor-Avila (eds.), pp. 249–274 | Article
1991 Introduction: Pidgins and Creoles and Tense-Mood-Aspect Pidgin and Creole Tense/Mood/Aspect Systems, Singler, John Victor (ed.), pp. vii–xvi | Article
1990 The Impact of Decreolization upon T-M-A: Tenselessness, Mood, and Aspect in Kru Pidgin English Pidgin and Creole Tense/Mood/Aspect Systems, Singler, John Victor (ed.), pp. 203–230 | Article
1990 The Story of O Studies in Language 12:1, pp. 123–144 | Article
1988 The City, The Mesolect, and Innovation Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 2:2, pp. 119–147 | Article
1987 Change in a creole or pidgin continuum is like linguistic change elsewhere: innovations that are identified with speakers who bear prestige are likely to spread, while innovations identified with speakers who do not bear prestige are not. In the case of the continuum that spans Liberian English… read more
Where did Liberian English NA Come From? English World-Wide 8:1, pp. 69–95 | Article
1987 John Victor Singler Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 1:1, pp. 141–145 | Squib
1986 The status of lexical associations and the obligatory contour principle in the analysis of tone languages African Linguistics: Essays in Memory of M.W.K. Semikenke, Goyvaerts, Didier L. (ed.), pp. 491–508 | Article
1985