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Professor of Linguistics
Ph.D. 1984 (linguistics), M.A. 1979 (linguistics), California (Los Angeles); M.A. 1976 (African studies), London; B.A. 1969 (history), Dartmouth College.
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Personal Homepage: https://files.nyu.edu/jvs1/public/
Research Interests: sociolinguistics; pidgins and creoles; African American English; phonology.
Affiliations: Past President, Society of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics; Associate Editor, Studies in African Linguistics.
Fellowships/Honors: National Science Foundation Grant, An African-American Linguistic Enclave: The Settler English of Sinoe County, Liberia; NYU Research Challenge Fund Grant, with Renée Blake and Gregory Guy, New York City English: A sociolinguistic study; Fulbright U.S. Senior Research Scholar, African Region, Syntactic Innovation in the Liberian English of Monrovia.
Selected Works:
Selected Publications
Samaná and Sinoe, I and II. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages,
22. 2007. Nos. 1,2.
Yes, but not in the Caribbean.
Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 21. 2006. 337-358.
[with Gareth Griffiths]
Guanya Pau, a Story of an African Princess, by Joseph Jeffrey Walters.
An annotated edition with an introductory essay. Peterborough, Ontario:
Broadview Press. 2004.
Liberian Settler English—Phonology,
and The Morphology and Syntax of Liberian Settler English. In A Handbook
of Varieties of English, Vols. 1 and 2, respectively.
ed. Bernd Kortmann, Edgar W
Schneider, Clive Upton, Rajend Mesthrie & Kate Burridge. Berlin,
New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 2004. Vol. 1, 65-75; Vol. 2, 879-897.
The “Linguistic” Asylum
Interview and the Linguist’s Evaluation of it, with Special Reference
to Applicants for Liberian Political Asylum in Switzerland.
The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law: Forensic
Linguistics, 11.2004. 222-39.
[with Philipp Angermeyer] The
Case for Politeness: Pronoun variation in Co-Ordinate NP’s in Object
Position in English. Language Variation and Change, 15. 2003.
169-207.
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