John Victor Singler
List of John Benjamins publications in which John Victor Singler is involved.
Book series
ISSN 0920-9026
Title
Pidgin and Creole Tense/Mood/Aspect Systems
Edited by John Victor Singler
More than any other area of the grammar, tense-mood-aspect (TMA) has provided evidence to fuel the ongoing debates about creole genesis and about the relevance of pidgin and creole phenomena to language theory more generally. This volume advances the debate in two ways. First, it makes available in… read more[Creole Language Library, 6] 1990. xvi, 240 pp.
2020 Are creoles a special type of language? Methodological issues in new approaches to an old question Advances in Contact Linguistics: In honour of Pieter Muysken, Smith, Norval, Tonjes Veenstra and Enoch O. Aboh (eds.), pp. 107–158 | Chapter
This paper takes as its starting point Muysken’s (1988a: 300) view of a ‘creole’ language as “just a language.” With this statement, Muysken rejects the idea of a creole prototype. Over the past 20 years, that idea has seen several new proponents. We provide a brief overview, before turning our… read more
2007 Samaná and Sinoe, Part II: Provenance Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 22:2, pp. 309–345 | Article
2007 Samaná and Sinoe, Part I: Stalking the vernacular Substrate Influence in Creole Formation, Migge, Bettina and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 123–148 | Article
2006 Children and creole genesis Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 21:1, pp. 157–173 | Miscellaneous
2006 Yes, but not in the Caribbean Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 21:2, pp. 337–358 | Miscellaneous
2000 Optimality Theory, the Minimal-Word Constraint, and the Historical Sequencing of Substrate Influence in
Pidgin/Creole Genesis Language Change and Language Contact in Pidgins and Creoles, McWhorter, John H. (ed.), pp. 335–352 | Article
1999 On the Marking of Temporal Sequencing in Vernacular Liberian English Creole Genesis, Attitudes and Discourse: Studies celebrating Charlene J. Sato, Rickford, John R. and Suzanne Romaine (eds.), pp. 337–352 | Article
1999 John Victor Singler in response to Derek Bickerton Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 14:1, pp. 217–218 | Miscellaneous
1996 The Demographics of Creole Genesis in the Caribbean: A Comparison of Martinique and Haiti The Early Stages of Creolization, Arends, Jacques (ed.), pp. 203–232 | Article
1996 Theories of Creole Genesis, Sociohistorical Considerations, and the Evaluation of Evidence: The Case of Haitian Creole and the Relexification Hypothesis Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 11:2, pp. 185–230 | Article
In an early Caribbean colony the conversion from other crops to sugar monoculture utterly transformed the colony's society and arguably its language as well. A comparative quantitative analysis of the populations of Haiti and Martinique makes the case that the initial period of creole genesis on… read more
1993 An African-American Linguistic Enclave: Tense and Aspect in Liberian Settler English Historical Linguistics 1989: Papers from the 9th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, New Brunswick, 14–18 August 1989, Aertsen, Henk and Robert J. Jeffers (eds.), pp. 457–466 | Article
1992 Nativization and Pidgin/Creole Genesis: A Reply to Bickerton Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 7:2, pp. 319–333 | Reply
1991 Liberian Settler English and the Ex-Slave Recordings: A Comprative Study The Emergence of Black English: Text and commentary, Bailey, Guy, Natalie Maynor and Patricia Cukor-Avila (eds.), pp. 249–274 | Article
1990 Introduction: Pidgins and Creoles and Tense-Mood-Aspect Pidgin and Creole Tense/Mood/Aspect Systems, Singler, John Victor (ed.), pp. vii–xvi | Article
1990 The Impact of Decreolization upon T-M-A: Tenselessness, Mood, and Aspect in Kru Pidgin English Pidgin and Creole Tense/Mood/Aspect Systems, Singler, John Victor (ed.), pp. 203–230 | Article
1988 The Story of O Studies in Language 12:1, pp. 123–144 | Article
1987 The City, The Mesolect, and Innovation Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 2:2, pp. 119–147 | Article
Change in a creole or pidgin continuum is like linguistic change elsewhere: innovations that are identified with speakers who bear prestige are likely to spread, while innovations identified with speakers who do not bear prestige are not. In the case of the continuum that spans Liberian English… read more
1987 Where did Liberian English NA Come From? English World-Wide 8:1, pp. 69–95 | Article
1986 John Victor Singler Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 1:1, pp. 141–145 | Squib
1985 The status of lexical associations and the obligatory contour principle in the analysis of tone languages African Linguistics: Essays in Memory of M.W.K. Semikenke, Goyvaerts, Didier L. (ed.), pp. 491–508 | Article