Peter L. Patrick
List of John Benjamins publications in which Peter L. Patrick is involved.
Book series
ISSN 0172-7362
Title
Urban Jamaican Creole: Variation in the Mesolect
Peter L. Patrick
A synchronic sociolinguistic study of Jamaican Creole (JC) as spoken in urban Kingston, this work uses variationist methods to closely investigate two key concepts of Atlantic Creole studies: the mesolect, and the creole continuum. One major concern is to describe how linguistic variation patterns… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G17] 1999. xx, 329 pp.
2026 Lexical frequency effects on language variation Lexical Variation and Knowledge Construction across Historical, Methodological, and Cultural Ecologies, Latorraca, Rossella, Rita Calabrese, Jacqueline Aiello and Dirk Geeraerts (eds.), pp. 179–196 | Chapter
Lexical frequency has long been accounted for as a strong predictor of sociolinguistic variation (Pierrehumbert 2002). Underlying frequency results in language variation are based on a certain predictability: common words behave differently from infrequent ones. Variationists have often measured… read more
2017 Number marking in Jamaican Patwa Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas: In honor of John V. Singler, Cutler, Cecelia, Zvjezdana Vrzić and Philipp Angermeyer (eds.), pp. 275–304 | Chapter
Variation is examined in marking of number on plural nouns in mesolectal Jamaican Patwa (JP). Earlier claims for grammatical/functional principles constraining variation are found wanting. Two corpora are analyzed. I provide a taxonomy of surface structures which map reliably onto the level of… read more
1997 Style and register in Jamaican Patwa Englishes around the World: Studies in honour of Manfred Görlach, Schneider, Edgar W. (ed.), pp. 41–56 | Article
1996 The urbanization of creole phonology: variation and change in Jamaican (KYA) Towards a Social Science of Language: Papers in honor of William Labov, Guy, Gregory R., Crawford Feagin, Deborah Schiffrin and John Baugh (eds.), pp. 329–356 | Article
