Agata Daleszynska-Slater
List of John Benjamins publications for which Agata Daleszynska-Slater plays a role.
Articles
2019 Order in the creole speech community: Marking past temporal reference in Bequia (St Vincent and the Grenadines) Language Ecology 3:1, pp. 58–88 | Article
Creolists and variationists often conceptualize variation in multilectal speech communities as a continuum of linearly ordered linguistic features. Using the variationist comparative method, we analyze variation in past tense marking in a creole speech community (Bequia, St Vincent and the… read more
2015 The fate of the local in light of the global: Analysis of variation in the use of preverbal markers in Bequia Creole Language Issues in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Prescod, Paula (ed.), pp. 45–66 | Article
This paper investigates variation in the use of past tense preverbal markers bin and did by two generations of speakers in Bequia. Preverbal markers have been characterised as socially stigmatised indexing rural dialects, speakers’ lower socioeconomic status, or older age. Results of the… read more
