John Victor Singler
Professor Emeritus
Contact linguistics, especially creole studies; variationist sociolinguistics; African American English; Liberian languages; phonology
Co-founder and Past Organizer, African Linguistics School; Associate Producer, Talking Black in America; Past President, Society of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics; Past Associate Editor, Studies in African Linguistics.
National Science Foundation Grants, Conscious Separateness, Unanticipated Convergence: World Englishes; Project-Based Learning at the African Linguistics School; Documentation of the Vlashki/Zheyanski Language (‘RUO’); and An African-American Linguistic Enclave: The Settler English of Sinoe County, Liberia. Fulbright U.S. Senior Research Scholar, African Region, Syntactic Innovation in the Liberian English of Monrovia.
African American Language and Life in the Antebellum North: Philadelphia’s Mother Bethel Church. In Bettina Migge & Shelome Gooden (eds.), Social aspects and linguistics of language contact and change. Berlin: Language Science Press. 2022.
[with Silvia Kouwenberg] Are Creoles a Special Type of Language? Methodological issues in new approaches to an old question In Norval S.H. Smith, Tonjes Veenstra, & Enoch Oladé Aboh (eds.), Advances in contact linguistics, in honour of Pieter Muysken. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 2020.
African American English Over Yonder: The language of the Liberian Settler community. In Sonja Lanehart (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of African American Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2015.
[co-edited with Evershed K. Amuzu] Codeswitching in West Africa. A special issue of International Journal of Bilingualism 16 (4). 2014.
[co-edited with Silvia Kouwenberg] The Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Studies. Chichester, West Sussex, and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. 2008.
Samaná and Sinoe, I and II. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 22. 2007. Nos. 1,2
[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.
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John Victor Singler
Professor Emeritus john.singler@nyu.edu Department of Linguistics New York University 10 Washington Place #311 New York, NY 10003Phone: (212) 998-7959