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Silvia Kouwenberg is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics in the Department of Language, Linguistics & Philosophy at the University of the West Indies (Mona). Much of her research has been on African substrate elements in Caribbean Creole languages, including Berbice Dutch (formerly spoken in parts of Guyana ) and Jamaican Creole or Patwa; she received a Mona Campus Research Fellowship 2004-2006 for her research on the African sources of Jamaican Creole grammar. Other research interests include formal structural properties of Caribbean Creole languages, in particular the prosody-syntax interface in Papiamentu. Among others, she is the author of A grammar of Berbice Dutch Creole, editor of Twice as meaningful: reduplication in pidgins, creoles, and other contact languages , author of articles in journals such as Lingua ; Linguistics ; European Journal of English Studies ; Journal of Portuguese Linguistics ; Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages ; Studies in Second Language Acquisition , and contributor to numerous edited volumes.
Abstract: Africans in early English Jamaica
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