Last updated 16 January 2011

Selected

Publications by

Peter L. Patrick

 

To appear

“Using language to attribute nationality to refugees.” To appear in Lawrence Solan & Peter Tiersma, eds., Handbook of Language and Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Language and Human Rights: The Essex Lectures. Ed. By Peter L. Patrick and John Packer. In preparation. To appear in series Language, Power & Social Process. Mouton de Gruyter.

2010

“Language Variation and LADO (Language Analysis for Determination of Origin).” In Pieter Muysken, Maaike Verrips & Karin Zwaan, eds., Language and Origin. The Role of Language in European Asylum Procedures: A Linguistic and Legal Survey. Wolf Legal Publishers, pp73-87. Patrick, Peter L. Nijmegen: Centre for Migration Law.

2008

“Pidgins, Creoles and linguistic variation.” 2008. In Silvia Kouwenberg & John V. Singler, eds., The Handbook of Pidgins and Creoles. Oxford: Blackwell, 461-487. link

2007

Comparative Creole Syntax: Parallel Outlines of 18 Creole Grammars. 2007. Ed. with John A. Holm. (London: Battlebridge Press, summary)

 

"Jamaican Patwa (Creole English)." 2007. In John A. Holm and Peter L. Patrick, eds., Comparative Creole Syntax: Parallel Outlines of 18 Creole Grammars. London: Battlebridge Press, 127-152.

 

“Dialect acquisition of glottal variation in /t/: Barbadians in Ipswich,” with Michelle Straw. 2007. Language Sciences 29(2-3): 385-407.

2006

African American Vernacular.” 2006. In Keith Brown ed., Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed. Oxford: Elsevier, pp159-164 (Vol. 4).

Jamaica.” 2006. In Keith Brown ed., Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed. Oxford: Elsevier, pp88-90 (Vol. 6).

“Two healing narratives: Suffering, reintegration and the struggle of language.” 2006. With Maria Cristina Fumagalli. Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, no. 20. (Indiana University Press)

2004

“British Creole: Phonology.” 2004. In A Handbook of Varieties of English. Vol. 1: Phonology, ed. Bernd Kortmann, Edgar W Schneider, Clive Upton, Rajend Mesthrie &

Kate Burridge. (Topics in English Linguistics, ed. Bernd Kortmann & Elizabeth Closs Traugott.) Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 231-243.

 

“Jamaican Creole: Morphology and syntax.” 2004. In A Handbook of Varieties of English. Vol 2: Morphology and Syntax, ed. Bernd Kortmann, Edgar W Schneider, Clive Upton, Rajend Mesthrie & Kate Burridge. (Topics in English Linguistics, ed. Bernd Kortmann & Elizabeth Closs Traugott.) Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 407-438.

 

Guidelines for the use of language analysis in relation to questions of national origin in refugee cases.” (Co-author, founding member of Language & National Origin Group.) Diana Eades & Jacques Arends, eds. Language Analysis and Determination of Nationality. International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law: Forensic Linguistics, 11(2): 261-266.

2003

Reconsidering the role of SLA in pidginization and creolization. Ed. with Silvia Kouwenberg. Thematic issue of Studies in Second Language Acquisition, vol 25 no. 2. Cambridge University Press.

“Creole, community, identity.” In Christian Mair, ed., Interactional sociolinguistics and cultural studies. Thematic issue of Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 28(2): 249-277. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag.

2002

“The Speech Community.” In JK Chambers, Peter Trudgill & Natalie Schilling-Estes, eds. The Handbook of Language Variation & Change. 573-597. Oxford: Blackwell.

Kiss-teeth,” with Esther Figueroa. American Speech, Winter 2002. Vol. 77(4):383-97.

“Caribbean Creoles and the Speech Community.” Society for Caribbean Linguistics Occasional Paper No. 30. St Augustine, Trinidad: University of the West Indies.

2000

"Competing Creole transcripts on trial", with Samuel W. Buell. Essex Research Reports in Linguistics 31.

"The creole verb: a comparative study of stativity and tense reference, " with John A. Holm et al. In Language Change and Language Contact in Pidgins and Creoles, ed. John McWhorter (Creole Language Library 21). Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 133-61.

1999

Urban Jamaican Creole: Variation in the Mesolect. (Varieties of English Around the World, No. G17.) Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishers. link

"Copula Patterns in Atlantic and non-Atlantic creoles." with John Holm et al. In Creole Genesis, Discourse and Attitudes: Studies celebrating Charlene Sato, eds. John R. Rickford and Suzanne Romaine (Creole Language Library 20). 97-119. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

"A comparison of serial verb constructions in Cape Verdean and other creoles, " with John Holm et al. In Lenguas Criollas de Base Lexical EspaZ ola y Portuguesa, ed. Klaus Zimmermann. (Bibliotheca Ibero-Americana.) Frankfurt: Vervuert, 297-319.

"Testing the Creole continuum." In Christine Moisset and Mimi Lipson, eds., Selected Papers from NWAV(E) 27. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, vol. 6:2.

"Language, faith and healing in Jamaican folk culture. " Essex Research Reports in Linguistics 26, 55-70. Online: Virtual Institute of Caribbean Studies www.netcom.com/~hhenke/index.htm.

1997

"Style and Register in Jamaican Patwa. " In Englishes Around the World: Studies in Honour of Manfred Goerlach. Vol. 2: Caribbean, Africa, Asia, Australasia, ed. Edgar W. Schneider. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 41-56.

"Passive-like constructions in English-based and other creoles, " with John Holm et al.* In Englishes Around the World: Studies in Honour of Manfred Goerlach. Vol. 1: General studies, British Isles, North America, ed. Edgar W. Schneider. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 71-86.

1996

"The Urbanization of Creole Phonology: Variation and Change in Jamaican (KYA). " In Towards a Social Science of Language: Papers in honor of William Labov. Volume 1,Variation and Change in Language and Society, ed. Gregory R. Guy, Crawford Feagin, Deborah Schiffrin and John Baugh. (Current Issues In Linguistic Theory, Volume 127.) Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 329-55.

"Functions of Rasta Talk in a Jamaican Creole Healing Narrative: 'A Bigfoot Dem Gi Mi', " with Arvilla Payne-Jackson. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 6(1): 1-38.

"Sociolinguistic factors in sign language research, " with Melanie Metzger. In Sociolinguistic Variation: Data, Theory, and Analysis. Selected papers from NWAV-23 at Stanford, ed. Jennifer Arnold, Renee Blake, Brad Davidson, Scott Schwenter and Julie Solomon. Stanford CA: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 229-42.

"Variation and the mesolect in Jamaican Creole. " In Georgetown University Round Table 1996, ed. James A. Alatis, Carolyn A. Straehle, Maggie Ronkin, and Brent Gallenberger. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 196-220.

1995

"Recent Jamaican Words in Sociolinguistic Context. " American Speech 70(3): 227-264.

1994

"Relative Clauses in Atlantic and Non-Atlantic Creoles, " with John Holm et al.* Papia: Revista de Criollos de Base Ibérica 3 (2). 70-87. Special issue: Atas do Coloquio sobre Crioulos de Base Portuguesa e Espanhola, Brasília, 3 a 6 de setembro de 1994.

1993

"Past-marking and Decreolization in Urban Jamaican Creole. " Amsterdam Creole Studies, volume 11, No. 61. 29-39.

"Speakin' and Spokin' in Jamaica: Conflict and Consensus in Sociolinguistics, " with Bonnie McElhinny. In Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, February 12-15, 1993, ed. Joshua Guenter, Barbara Kaiser, Cheryl Zoll. Berkeley CA: University of California at Berkeley, Linguistics Dept., 280-290.

1992

Linguistic Variation in Urban Jamaican Creole: A Sociolinguistic Study of Kingston, Jamaica. Ph.D. dissertation in Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania.

1991

"Creoles at the Intersection of Variable Processes: -t, -d deletion and past-marking in the Jamaican mesolect. " Language Variation and Change 3 (2). 171-189.

 

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