Paula Prescod

List of John Benjamins publications for which Paula Prescod plays a role.

Title

Language Issues in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Edited by Paula Prescod

[Varieties of English Around the World, G51] 2015. xv, 191 pp.

Articles (7) | Order by:

Prescod, Paula 2024 Verb marking and classification of adjectival predicates in creoles Australian Contact Languages, O'Shannessy, Carmel, Denise Angelo and Jane Simpson (eds.), pp. 250–285 | Article

Prescod, Paula 2024 Evidence from bare verbs for the future versus non-future split in Creoles Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 39:2, pp. 435–462 | Article

Vincentian Creole makes a future/non-future temporal distinction on the basis of the categorisation proposed in several studies, according to which languages combining present and future make a past/non-past distinction and those using the same form for past and present make a future/non-future… read more

Prescod, Paula 2018 Licensing negation and negative concord in Atlantic Creoles: The case of Vincentian Negation and Negative Concord: The view from Creoles, Déprez, Viviane and Fabiola Henri (eds.), pp. 125–152 | Chapter

This chapter examines the distribution of a selection of negative dependent indefinites in Atlantic Creoles in general and Vincentian in particular and their syntactic behavior in the presence of sentential negation. It is posited here that the syntactic behavior of indefinites can be partially… read more

Prescod, Paula 2016 Review of Meyerhoff & Walker (2013): Bequia Talk (St Vincent and the Grenadines) Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 31:2, pp. 445–448 | Review

Prescod, Paula 2015 Creole reflexes of do: Zeroing in on tense, aspect and modality in Vincentian Creole Language Issues in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Prescod, Paula (ed.), pp. 141–164 | Article

After providing a brief description of du ‘do’, duhz ‘does’, and did ‘did’, the functions of duhn ‘done’ in Vincentian Creole are analysed. While some duhn uses illustrate an aspectual function reminiscent of the completive semantics of English ‘done’, Vincentian duhn cannot be accounted for as a… read more

Prescod, Paula and Adrian Fraser 2015 Sociohistorical and linguistic account of St Vincent and the Grenadines Language Issues in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Prescod, Paula (ed.), pp. 1–44 | Article

This chapter presents a settlement history of St Vincent and the Grenadines, the demographic composition of the islands at transitional periods in their history and the ethnolinguistic origins of the settlers. We show that a great proportion of the African linguistic heritage has been lost and… read more

Prescod, Paula 2008 14. The formation of deverbal nouns in Vincentian Creole: Morpho-phonological and morpho-syntactic processes Roots of Creole Structures: Weighing the contribution of substrates and superstrates, Michaelis, Susanne Maria (ed.), pp. 333–355 | Article

This paper attests that (non-)transparent derivational processes operate in Vincentian Creole (VinC), an Atlantic creole that draws its lexicon extensively from English. We demonstrate that speakers of VinC use suffixation, conversion and phonological alternation in much the same way as the… read more