Donald Winford
List of John Benjamins publications in which Donald Winford is involved.
Journal
ISSN 0920-9034 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9870
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Code Switching
Edited by Ludmila Isurin, Donald Winford and Kees de Bot
The volume presents a selection of contributions by leading scholars in the field of code-switching. In the past the phenomenon of code-switching was studied within different subfields of linguistics and they all took their own perspectives on code-switching without taking into account findings… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 41] 2009. xviii, 364 pp.
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.
Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages: Papers from the University of Chicago Conference on Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages
Edited by Francis Byrne and Donald Winford
The volume has as its topic, not only the types of formal constructions and devices which creole languages syntactically utilize to achieve constituent focus, but also, in a much broader sense, the many other phenomena and processes found in these languages which serve to highlight sentence-level… read more[Creole Language Library, 12] 1993. xvi, 329 pp.
Predication in Caribbean English Creoles
Donald Winford
This is the first major study of the conservative or basilectal English creoles of the Anglophone Caribbean since Bailey's (1966) and Bickerton's (1975) descriptions of Jamaican and Guyanese Creole respectively. The book offers a comprehensive, unified treatment of the core areas of CEC… read more[Creole Language Library, 10] 1993. viii, 419 pp.
2020 Chapter 1. The New Spanishes in the context of contact linguistics: Toward a unified approach Hispanic Contact Linguistics: Theoretical, methodological and empirical perspectives, Ortiz López, Luis A., Rosa E. Guzzardo Tamargo and Melvin González-Rivera (eds.), pp. 11–42 | Chapter
Weinreich (1953) argued that a comprehensive model of language contact must integrate linguistic, sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic approaches. This paper discusses how such a model can be applied to the contact languages that arose in the Spanish colonies as a result of contact between… read more
2017 Some observations on the sources of AAVE structure: Re-examining the creole connection 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. 203–224 | Chapter
There now seems to be agreement that the grammar of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) has its primary sources in settler varieties of British English. However, there is still no consensus on the role played by creole varieties in shaping certain aspects of AAVE grammar, or on the time… read more
2013 Afterword The Interplay of Variation and Change in Contact Settings, Léglise, Isabelle and Claudine Chamoreau (eds.), pp. 253–260 | Article
2011 Revisiting variation between sa and o in Sranan Variation in the Caribbean: From creole continua to individual agency, Hinrichs, Lars and Joseph T. Farquharson (eds.), pp. 13–38 | Article
Sranan employs two markers, sa and o, which both express some kind of futurity, but the precise nature of the difference between them has been difficult to pin down. Some researchers claim that sa and o are both primarily temporal in nature, but others treat sa as primarily modal, and o as… read more
2009 The origin and development of possibility in the creoles of Suriname Gradual Creolization: Studies celebrating Jacques Arends, Selbach, Rachel, Hugo C. Cardoso and Margot van den Berg (eds.), pp. 129–153 | Article
In this paper we discuss the origin and development of the expression of possibility in the creoles of Suriname. We first describe the systems of possibility in Sranan and three Maroon creoles (Ndyuka, Pamaka, and Saamaka), drawing on data elicited from informants, conversational data, as well as… read more
2009 11. On the unity of contact phenomena and their underlying mechanisms: The case of borrowing Multidisciplinary Approaches to Code Switching, Isurin, Ludmila, Donald Winford and Kees de Bot (eds.), pp. 279–305 | Article
2007 Substrate influence on the emergence of the TMA systems of the Surinamese creoles Substrate Influence in Creole Formation, Migge, Bettina and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 73–99 | Article
Although the Surinamese Creoles have figured prominently in discussions about Creole genesis, little is still known about the origin of their TMA system, a central area of grammar that has received much attention in this debate. In this paper we assess the relative contribution of the primary… read more
2006 11. Reduced syntax in (prototypical) pidgins The Syntax of Nonsententials: Multidisciplinary perspectives, Progovac, Ljiljana, Kate Paesani, Eugenia Casielles-Suárez and Ellen Barton (eds.), pp. 283–307 | Chapter
2006 The restructuring of tense/aspect systems in creole formation Structure and Variation in Language Contact, Deumert, Ana and Stephanie Durrleman (eds.), pp. 85–110 | Chapter
This paper attempts to reconcile the so-called ‘superstratist’ and ‘substratist’ views on creole formation, with special attention to the emergence of tense/aspect systems in Haitian French Creole and Sranan Tongo. Creole formation involves a process of restructuring by which interlanguage grammars… read more
2005 Contact-induced changes: Classification and processes Diachronica 22:2, pp. 373–427 | Article
Traditionally, contact-induced changes in languages have been classified into two broad categories: those due to ‘borrowing’ and those due to ‘interference’ by an L1 or other primary language on an L2 in the course of second language acquisition (SLA). Other terms used for ‘interference’ include… read more
2000 Tense and Aspect in Sranan and the Creole Prototype Language Change and Language Contact in Pidgins and Creoles, McWhorter, John H. (ed.), pp. 383–442 | Article
2000 “Intermediate” creoles and degrees of change in creole formation: The case of Bajan Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages, Neumann-Holzschuh, Ingrid and Edgar W. Schneider (eds.), pp. 215–246 | Article
2000 Review article:Language contact: Issues of classification and types of process Diachronica 17:1, pp. 139–158 | Review article
2000 Irrealis in Sranan: Mood and modality in a radical creole Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 15:1, pp. 63–125 | Article
1998 On The Origins of African American Vernacular English — A Creolist Perspective: Part II: Linguistic Features Diachronica 15:1, pp. 99–154 | Article
SUMMARY In this second part of a two-part study of the origins of African American Vernacular English (AAVE), specific structural features of this dialect are examined and the argument is made that they arose via a process of language shift by Africans toward the white settler dialects of the… read more
1997 On the Origins of African American Vernacular English — A Creolist Perspective: Part I: The Sociohistorical Background Diachronica 14:2, pp. 305–344 | Article
SUMMARY This article is the first of a two-part study of the origins of African-American Vernacular English (AAVE). It examines the sociohistorical background to the emergence of AAVE with a view to establishing that this variety resulted initially from a process of language shift by… read more
1997 Property Items and Predication in Sranan Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 12:2, pp. 237–301 | Article
This paper revisits the long-standing controversy over whether so-called predicate adjectives like bigi 'big', bradi 'wide', etc. in Sranan (and other creoles) are truly adjectives or a subclass of verb. Using a variety of diagnostics, it concludes that such items are in fact verbal in their… read more
1997 Creole Formation in the Context of Contact Linguistics Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 12:1, pp. 131–151 | Miscellaneous
1997 Introduction: On the structure and status of pidgins and creoles 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. 1–34 | Article
1997 Creole Studies and Sociolinguistics Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 12:2, pp. 303–318 | Miscellaneous
1996 Common Ground and Creole TMA Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 11:1, pp. 71–84 | Miscellaneous
1996 Creole Typology and Relationships Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 11:2, pp. 313–328 | Miscellaneous
1993 Introduction: Focus and Grammatical Relations in Creole Languages 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. ix–xvi | Miscellaneous
1993 Directional Serial Verb Constructions in Caribbean English Creoles Atlantic Meets Pacific: A global view of pidginization and creolization, Byrne, Francis and John Holm † (eds.), pp. 183–206 | Article
1990 Copula Variability, Accountability, And the Concept of "Polylectal" Grammars Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 5:2, pp. 223–252 | Article
This paper examines variation in the use of copula forms and copulative structures in the Guyanese Creole (GC) continuum. A previous analysis by Bickerton (1973a, 1973b), who presented a polylectal grammar based on implicational relationships in the introduction and use of copular be, is examined… read more
1980 The Creole Situation in the Context of Sociolinguistic Studies Issues in English Creoles: Papers from the 1975 Hawaii Conference, Day, Richard R. (ed.), pp. 51–76 | Article