Atlantic Meets Pacific: A global view of pidginization and creolization
Edited by Francis Byrne and John Holm †
Selected papers from the Society for Pidgin and Creole linguistics. read more[Creole Language Library, 11] 1993. ix, 465 pp.
Francis Byrne
List of John Benjamins publications in which Francis Byrne is involved.
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.
Development and Structures of Creole Languages: Essays in honor of Derek Bickerton
Edited by Francis Byrne and Thom Huebner
This collection of original essays is intended to both celebrate Derek Bickerton's sixty-fifth birthday and honor his long and eminent career. Each author included in the volume is a noted scholar who has distinguished him/herself in some area of linguistics and has professionally or personally… read more[Creole Language Library, 9] 1991. x, 222 pp.
Grammatical Relations in a Radical Creole: Verb Complementation in Saramaccan
Francis Byrne
With English and Portuguese as parent languages; the significant lexical retention of African languages; and the relative isolation of its speakers, Saramaccan has always stood out among Creole languages. Yet despite its obvious interest Saramaccan received little in the way of scholarly study.… read more[Creole Language Library, 3] 1987. xiv, 293 pp.
1996 Review of Lord (1993): Historical change in serial verb constructions Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 11:1, pp. 139–145 | Review
1993 A Few Observations on the Creole Aspectual Marker ta and Some Implications for Finiteness Atlantic Meets Pacific: A global view of pidginization and creolization, Byrne, Francis and John Holm † (eds.), pp. 207–216 | Article
1993 Focus, Emphasis and Pronominals in Saramaccan 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. 213–232 | Article
1993 Introduction: Perspectives on the Atlantic and Pacific…and Beyond Atlantic Meets Pacific: A global view of pidginization and creolization, Byrne, Francis and John Holm † (eds.), pp. 1–24 | Article
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
1992 Tense, Scope, And Spreading in Saramaccan Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 7:2, pp. 195–221 | Article
A unified theory is developed in this paper to account in a comprehensive way for variable tense marking patterns in the serial verb constructions found in Saramaccan, a creole language of the central interior of Suriname. The disparate patterns include verb initial marking, tense copy, and the… read more
1991 Approaches to ‘Missing” Internal (and External) Arguments in Serial Structure: Some Presumed Difficulties Development and Structures of Creole Languages: Essays in honor of Derek Bickerton, Byrne, Francis and Thom Huebner (eds.), pp. 207–222 | Article
1991 Introduction: Innovation and Excellence within a Scholary Tradition Development and Structures of Creole Languages: Essays in honor of Derek Bickerton, Byrne, Francis and Thom Huebner (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Article
1990 Review of Alleyne (1987): Studies in Saramaccan language structure Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 5:1, pp. 131–138 | Review
1986 Francis X. Byrne Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 1:1, pp. 147–152 | Squib