Paula Prescod
List of John Benjamins publications in which Paula Prescod is involved.
Journal
ISSN 0920-9034 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9870
Title
Language Issues in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Edited by Paula Prescod
This collection is a pioneer study of linguistic phenomena in St Vincent and the Grenadines, written by scholars who are both respected in their field of research and connected to the linguistic realities in the geographic area under investigation. This book covers the subfields of… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G51] 2015. xv, 191 pp.
2025 The nature of relativization and free relatives in Vincentian Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 40:2, pp. 403–425 | Article
The study first introduces relativization, then describes strategies for relativization in Vincentian, as well as the syntactic positions that can be relativized. Comparative references to Eastern Maroon Creole (EMC) are made, particularly concerning gapping and the use of resumptive pronouns.… read more
2025 Why all the fuss about bare nouns in English-related creoles? Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 40:1, pp. 176–197 | Article
The heightened scholarly attention given to the absence of articles in creoles since the 1990s leaves an impression of a linguistic particularism. But are articleless nouns in English-related creoles so peculiar? If bare nouns are characteristic of creoles, their syntactic, semantic and… read more
2024 Verb marking and classification of adjectival predicates in creoles Australian Contact Languages, O'Shannessy, Carmel, Denise Angelo and Jane Simpson (eds.), pp. 250–285 | Article
2024 Evidence from bare verbs for the future versus non-future split in Creoles Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 39:2, pp. 435–462 | Article
Vincentian Creole makes a future/non-future temporal distinction on the basis of the categorisation proposed in several studies, according to which languages combining present and future make a past/non-past distinction and those using the same form for past and present make a future/non-future… read more
2018 Licensing negation and negative concord in Atlantic Creoles: The case of Vincentian Negation and Negative Concord: The view from Creoles, Déprez, Viviane and Fabiola Henri (eds.), pp. 125–152 | Chapter
This chapter examines the distribution of a selection of negative dependent indefinites in Atlantic Creoles in general and Vincentian in particular and their syntactic behavior in the presence of sentential negation. It is posited here that the syntactic behavior of indefinites can be partially… read more
2015 Creole reflexes of do: Zeroing in on tense, aspect and modality in Vincentian Creole Language Issues in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Prescod, Paula (ed.), pp. 141–164 | Article
After providing a brief description of du ‘do’, duhz ‘does’, and did ‘did’, the functions of duhn ‘done’ in Vincentian Creole are analysed. While some duhn uses illustrate an aspectual function reminiscent of the completive semantics of English ‘done’, Vincentian duhn cannot be accounted for as a… read more
2015 Sociohistorical and linguistic account of St Vincent and the Grenadines Language Issues in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Prescod, Paula (ed.), pp. 1–44 | Article
This chapter presents a settlement history of St Vincent and the Grenadines, the demographic composition of the islands at transitional periods in their history and the ethnolinguistic origins of the settlers. We show that a great proportion of the African linguistic heritage has been lost and… read more
2008 14. The formation of deverbal nouns in Vincentian Creole: Morpho-phonological and morpho-syntactic processes Roots of Creole Structures: Weighing the contribution of substrates and superstrates, Michaelis, Susanne Maria (ed.), pp. 333–355 | Article
This paper attests that (non-)transparent derivational processes operate in Vincentian Creole (VinC), an Atlantic creole that draws its lexicon extensively from English. We demonstrate that speakers of VinC use suffixation, conversion and phonological alternation in much the same way as the… read more