John R. Rickford

List of John Benjamins publications in which John R. Rickford is involved.

Journal

Language, Culture and Society

General Editor: Alfonso Del Percio and Cécile B. Vigouroux

ISSN 2543-3164 | E‑ISSN 2543‑3156

Title

Creole Genesis, Attitudes and Discourse: Studies celebrating Charlene J. Sato

Edited by John R. Rickford and Suzanne Romaine

This collection in honor of creolist Charlene Junko Sato (1951–1996) brings together contributions by leading specialists in pidgin-creole studies in three primary areas: Pidgin-Creole Genesis and Development; Attitudes and Education, and Creole Discourse and Literature. The varieties covered come… read more

[Creole Language Library, 20] 1999. viii, 418 pp.

Rickford, John R. 2017 Variationist creolistics, with a phonological focus 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. 305–322 | Chapter

John Singler is among a relatively small group of variationist creolists who have worked on phonological variation, which, although less of a research focus in creolistics than grammatical variation, can be illuminated by and illuminate quantitative and other systematic approaches to… read more

Rickford, John R. 2011 Le Page’s theoretical and applied legacy in sociolinguistics and creole studies Variation in the Caribbean: From creole continua to individual agency, Hinrichs, Lars and Joseph T. Farquharson (eds.), pp. 251–272 | Article

This paper reviews Robert B. Le Page’s contributions to creole linguistics, sociolinguistics, and applied linguistics, combining a critical and academic viewpoint with the personal perspective of a sociolinguist whose career and work have been deeply influenced by Le Page. The conclusion reflects… read more

Sharma, Devyani and John R. Rickford 2009 AAVE/creole copula absence: A critique of the imperfect learning hypothesis Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 24:1, pp. 53–90 | Article

This study confirms the robustness of the finding in the literature on African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and creole English (especially in the Caribbean) that omission of copular and auxiliary be varies systematically according to predicate type. Verbal predicates are associated with the… read more

Rickford, John R. 2006 Down for the count? The Creole Origins Hypothesis of AAVE at the hands of the Ottawa Circle, and their supporters Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 21:1, pp. 97–155 | Article

Rickford, John R. 1999 Variation in the Jamaican Creole Copula and its Relation to the Genesis of AAVE: New Data and Analysis Creole Genesis, Attitudes and Discourse: Studies celebrating Charlene J. Sato, Rickford, John R. and Suzanne Romaine (eds.), pp. 143–156 | Article

Rickford, John R. and Suzanne Romaine 1999 Preface Creole Genesis, Attitudes and Discourse: Studies celebrating Charlene J. Sato, Rickford, John R. and Suzanne Romaine (eds.), pp. 3–10 | Preface

Romaine, Suzanne and John R. Rickford 1999 Charlene Junko Sato (1951–1996): Biography and Bibliography Creole Genesis, Attitudes and Discourse: Studies celebrating Charlene J. Sato, Rickford, John R. and Suzanne Romaine (eds.), pp. 11–16 | Article

Rickford, John R. 1996 Copula variability in Jamaican creole and African American vernacular English: A reanalysis of DeCamp’s texts Towards a Social Science of Language: Papers in honor of William Labov, Guy, Gregory R., Crawford Feagin, Deborah Schiffrin and John Baugh (eds.), pp. 357–372 | Article

Rickford, John R. and Jerome S. Handler 1994 Textual Evidence on the Nature of Early Barbadian Speech, 1676-1835 Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 9:2, pp. 221–255 | Article

On the evidence of textual attestations from 1676-1835, early Barbadian English is shown to have exhibited many more nonstandard features than is generally recognized. Such features, which are commonly, if not exclusively, found in pidgins and creoles, include vowel epenthesis, paragoge and initial… read more

Rickford, John R. 1991 Variation theory: implicational scaling and critical age limits in models of linguistic variation, acquisition and change Cross Currents in Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theory, Huebner, Thom and Charles A. Ferguson (eds.), pp. 225–248 | Article

Rickford, John R. 1991 Representativeness and Reliability of the Ex-Slave Materials, With Special Reference to Wallace Quarterman’s Recording and Transcript The Emergence of Black English: Text and commentary, Bailey, Guy, Natalie Maynor and Patricia Cukor-Avila (eds.), pp. 191–212 | Article

Rickford, John R. 1986 John R. Rickford Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 1:1, pp. 159–163 | Squib

Rickford, John R. 1980 How Does Doz Disappear? Issues in English Creoles: Papers from the 1975 Hawaii Conference, Day, Richard R. (ed.), pp. 77–96 | Article