Arthur K. Spears

List of John Benjamins publications in which Arthur K. Spears is involved.

Title

The Structure and Status of Pidgins and Creoles: Including selected papers from meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole linguistics

Edited by Arthur K. Spears and Donald Winford

Destined to become a landmark work, this book is devoted principally to a reassessment of the content, categories, boundaries, and basic assumptions of pidgin and creole studies. It includes revised and elaborated papers from meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in addition to… read more

[Creole Language Library, 19] 1997. viii, 461 pp.

Articles (10) | Order by:

Spears, Arthur K. 2007 15. Bare nouns in African American English (AAE) Noun Phrases in Creole Languages: A multi-faceted approach, Baptista, Marlyse and Jacqueline Guéron (eds.), pp. 421–434 | Chapter

Bare count (and mass) nouns, defined as nouns with no determiner or number suffix, occur in African American English, a partially restructured, noncreole language. It is noteworthy that bare nouns in AAE may take definite and generic interpretations. Bare nouns with defi nite interpretations were… read more

Spears, Arthur K. 2005 Review of Gilbert (2002): Pidgin and creole linguistics in the twenty-first century Creole Language in Creole Literatures, Mühleisen, Susanne (ed.), pp. 218–227 | Review

Spears, Arthur K. 2001 9. Directness in the use of African American English Sociocultural and Historical Contexts of African American English, Lanehart, Sonja L. (ed.), pp. 239–260 | Article

Spears, Arthur K. 1997 Preface and Acknowledgments 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. v–vi | Preface

Spears, Arthur K. 1993 Stem and So-Called Anterior Verb Forms in Haitian Creole Atlantic Meets Pacific: A global view of pidginization and creolization, Byrne, Francis and John Holm † (eds.), pp. 261–278 | Article

Spears, Arthur K. 1993 Foregrounding and Backgrounding in Haitian Creole Discourse Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages: Papers from the University of Chicago Conference on Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages, Byrne, Francis and Donald Winford (eds.), pp. 249–268 | Article

Spears, Arthur K. 1991 Review of Déchaine (): Operations sur les structures argumentales: Le cas des constructions sérielles en créole haïtien & Brousseau (): Triptyque sur les composés: Les noms composés en français, fongbe et haïtien en regard des notions de tête et de percolation & Sterlin (): Les differentes caracteristiques de pou en créole haïtien Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 6:1, pp. 155–160 | Review

Spears, Arthur K. 1990 Tense, Mood, and Aspect in the Haitian Creole Preverbal Marker System Pidgin and Creole Tense/Mood/Aspect Systems, Singler, John Victor (ed.), pp. 119–142 | Article