Valerie Youssef

Youssef, Valerie 2011 The varilingual repertoire of Tobagonian speakers Variation in the Caribbean: From creole continua to individual agency, Hinrichs, Lars and Joseph T. Farquharson (eds.), pp. 191–206 | Article

This paper challenges the creole continuum model as the most accurate descriptor of language development in Caribbean sociolinguistic complexes for the present. The model was constrained by its time and by quantitative generalization which lost sight of the individual as the locus of change. Much… read more

Youssef, Valerie 2005 ‘May I have the bilna?’: The development of face-saving in young Trinidadian children Politeness and Face in Caribbean Creoles, Mühleisen, Susanne and Bettina Migge (eds.), pp. 227–254 | Article

Youssef, Valerie 2004 Review of The Genesis of discourse grammar: Universals and substrata in Guyanese, Hawaii Creole and Japanese, by Hirokuni Masuda Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 19:2, pp. 428–433 | Miscellaneous

Youssef, Valerie 2003 How Perfect Is Perfective Marking? An Analysis of Terminological Problems in the Description of Some Tense-aspect Categories in Creoles Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 18:1, pp. 81–105 | Article

Youssef, Valerie 1996 Varilingualism: The Competence Underlying Codemixing in Trinidad and Tobago Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 11:1, pp. 1–22 | Article

There is a need for a label which will adequately describe the communicative competence acquired by speakers who learn to mix their codes in speech communities like those of Trinidad and Tobago. They mix according to community-based parameters for use of the codes in contact and according to their… read more

Youssef, Valerie 1995 Tense-Aspect in Tobagonian English: A Dynamic Transitional System English World-Wide 16:2, pp. 195–213 | Article

Youssef, Valerie 1991 The Acquisition of Varilingual Competence English World-Wide 12:1, pp. 87–102 | Article

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