Michael Aceto

List of John Benjamins publications for which Michael Aceto plays a role.

Title

Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean

Edited by Michael Aceto and Jeffrey P. Williams

[Varieties of English Around the World, G30] 2003. xx, 322 pp.

Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Articles

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Aceto, Michael 2017 Hickey, 2014. A dictionary of varieties of English Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 32:1, pp. 194–201 | Review

Aceto, Michael 2014 Review of Hinrichs & Farquharson (2011): Variation in the Caribbean. From creole continua to individual agency Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 29:1, pp. 199–205 | Review

Aceto, Michael 2008 The structure of creole words. Segmental, syllabic and morphological aspects, edited by Parth Bhatt and Ingo Plag Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 23:1, pp. 161–164 | Miscellaneous

Aceto, Michael 2006 Review of Bartens (2003): A contrastive grammar, Islander – Caribbean standard English – Spanish Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 21:2, pp. 389–391 | Review

Aceto, Michael 2004 Review of Neumann-Holzschuh & Schneider (2000): Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages English World-Wide 25:1, pp. 137–143 | Review

Aceto, Michael 2003 What are Creole languages? An alternative approach to the Anglophone Atlantic World with special emphasis on Barbudan Creole English Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean, Aceto, Michael and Jeffrey P. Williams (eds.), pp. 121–140 | Article

Aceto, Michael and Jeffrey P. Williams 2003 Introduction Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean, Aceto, Michael and Jeffrey P. Williams (eds.), pp. xiii ff. | Miscellaneous

Aceto, Michael 2002 Barbudan Creole English: Its history and some grammatical features English World-Wide 23:2, pp. 223–250 | Article

This article presents some of the core grammatical features of Barbudan Creole English, an Anglophone language that has never been described in the linguistics or creolistics literature. It begins with a historical presentation of Barbuda within the British colonial world, discussing the islands… read more

Aceto, Michael 2002 Review of Kephart (): “Broken English.” The creole language of Carriacou Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 17:2, pp. 279–283 | Review

Aceto, Michael 2001 Review of McWhorter (1998): The word on the street. Fact and fable about American English Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 16:1, pp. 166–174 | Review

Aceto, Michael 1999 Looking Beyond Decreolization as an Explanatory Model of Language Change in Creole-Speaking Communities Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 14:1, pp. 93–119 | Article

This paper discusses internally-motivated change as a largely ignored factor in understanding diachrony in creole languages: that is, externally-motivated models — and the most popular of these is certainly decreolization and the related concept of the creole continuum — have been nearly… read more

Aceto, Michael 1998 Review of Bernstein, Nunnally & Sabino (1997): Language Variety in the South Revisited English World-Wide 19:2, pp. 292–302 | Review

Aceto, Michael 1997 Review of Montgomery (1994): The crucible of Carolina: Essays in the development of Gullah language and culture Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 12:1, pp. 169–175 | Review

Aceto, Michael 1997 Review of Matras (1995): Romani in contact: The history, structure and sociology of a language Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 12:2, pp. 366–371 | Review

Aceto, Michael 1997 Saramaccan Creole origins: Portuguese-derived lexical correspondances and the relexification hypothesis The Structure and Status of Pidgins and Creoles: Including selected papers from meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole linguistics, Spears, Arthur K. and Donald Winford (eds.), pp. 219 ff. | Article

Aceto, Michael 1996 Early Saramaccan Syllable Structure: An Analysis of Complex Onsets from Schumann's 1778 Manuscript Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 11:1, pp. 23–44 | Article

This paper presents a diachronic analysis of Saramaccan syllable structure. It examines data from Schumann's 1778 manuscript, and demonstrates that early Saramaccan syllable structure included complex onsets. A case is also made that in the last two centuries, these complex onsets in Saramaccan… read more

Aceto, Michael 1996 SYNTACTIC INNOVATION IN A CARIBBEAN CREOLE: THE BASTIMENTOS VARIETY OF PANAMANIAN CREOLE ENGLISH English World-Wide 17:1, pp. 43–61 | Article

Aceto, Michael 1995 Review of Dillard (1992): A history of American English Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 10:1, pp. 203–208 | Review