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Hubert Devonish

Professor Hubert Devonish
Dept. of Language, Linguistics & Philosophy
University of the West Indies, Mona,
Kingston 7, Jamaica.
Tel. (876) 977-1592(h), 927-1641, 970-2950, 935-8233.
Email: hubert.devonish@uwimona.edu.jm

PROFESSIONAL / ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

Professor of Linguistics, University of the West Indies, Mona 1998-Present
Reader in Linguistics, University of the West Indies, Mona 1993-1998
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, University of the West Indies, Mona 1988-1993
Lecturer in Linguistics, University of the West Indies, Mona 1979-1988
D.Phil, University of York, UK 1978

ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS

Coordinator, The Jamaican Language Unit 2003-Present
Faculty Coordinator for Postgraduate Studies (Faculty of Humanities and Education) 2002-July 2004
Head, Dept. of Language, Linguistics and Philosophy 1996-2002
Head, Dept. of Linguistics and Use of English 1987-1992

OTHER UNIVERSITY ACTIVITIES

Academic Board Representative to University Council 1997-Present
Leader of the WIGUT Negotiating Team 1996-2000
President, West Indies Group of University Teachers (Jamaica) 1988-1993
Academic Board Representative to University Academic Committee 1988-1992
Vice President, West Indies Group of University Teachers (Jamaica) 1987-1988

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

Cable and Wireless Distance Education Fellowship, UK Sept. - Oct. 1999.
Visiting Research Fellowship, New York University Feb.- March 1999
Senior Fulbright Research Fellowship, Stanford University April - Sept. 1993
Senior Fulbright Research Fellowship, Stanford University April - Sept. 1989
Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship, School of Oriental and African Studies, London. 1984-1985

Publications

Books

  • Talking Rhythm, Stressing Tone: Prominence in Anglo-West African Creole Languages, Arawak Press: Kingston, 2002, 207 pages.
  • Talking in Tones: A Study of Tone in Afro-European Creole Languages, Karia Press: London; Caribbean Academic Publishers, Barbados, 1989,143 pages.
  • Language and Liberation: Creole Language Politics in the Caribbean, Karia Press: London; 1986, 157 pages .

Articles

  • 'Caribbean Creoles', in Deumert, A. & W. Vandenbussche (eds) Germanic Standardizations: Past to Present. John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 2003, pp 41-67.
  • 'Reduplication as lexical and syntactic aspect marking. The case of Guyanese Creole, in Kouwenberg, S. (ed) Twice as Meaningful: Reduplication in Pidgins, Creoles and Other Contact Languages. Battlebridge Publications, London, 2003, pp 47-60
  • 'On the Sierra Leone -Caribbean connection - Hot on the trail of 'tone shifted' items in Anglo-West African', in Christie, P (ed.) Due Respect: Papers on English and English Related Creoles in the Caribbean, in Honour of Robert Le Page, University of the West Indies Press, Kingston, 2001, pp. 184-205.
  • "What should Caribbean Architects know about Caribbean Language if..." in Axis: Journal of the Caribbean School of Architecture. Vol.5, June, 2001, pp 96-111
  • On the writing of normative grammars for Caribbean Creole Languages: The case Of Guyanese Creole in Action. T and M Delphinis (eds) Language, Blacks and Gypsies: Languages without a written tradition and their role in Education. Whiting & Birch, London, 2000, pp. 52-58
  • 'On the existence of autonomous language varieties in 'Creole continuum situations", in Christie, P., B. Lalla, V. Pollard and L. Carrington (eds.), Studies in Caribbean Language 11, Society for Caribbean Linguistics, Trinidad, 1998.
  • 'Electronic Orature: The Deejay's discovery', in Social & Economic Studies, Vol. 47, No.1, 1998, pp. 33-53
  • 'Ruuts langgwij, nyuu taim sapii an fiilinz fo neeshan (with translation)', in Kyk-Over-AI, No. 48, April 1998, pp. 136-152.
  • 'Walking Around the Language Barrier: A Caribbean View of the Ebonics Controversy', in Small Axe, No.2, September, 1997.
  • 'Kom groun Jamiekan Daans Haal liricks: memba se a plie wi a plie-Contextualizing Jamaican' "Dance Hall' music: Jamaican language at play in a speech Event', English World Wide, Vol. 17, No.2, 1996, pp. 213-237.
  • 'Vernacular Languages and Writing Technology Transfer: 'The Jamaican Case', in Christie, P. (ed.), Caribbean Language Issues -Old & New, 1996, UWI Press, Jamaica, pp. 101-111.
  • 'Working by the Book or Playing By Ear: Language, Literacy and the Grenada Revolution', Caribbean Quarterly, Vol. 41, No.2, June 1995, pp.24-37.
  • [co-authored with Carolyn Cooper], A Tale of Two States: Language, Literature and the Two Jamaicas", in Brown, Stewart ( ed), The Pressures of the Text: Orality, Texts and the Telling of Tales, Centre of West African Studies, Birmingham, 1995, pp.60- 74.
  • 'African and Indian consciousness at play: a study in West Indies cricket and nationalism' in Beckles, H. and Stoddart, B. (eds.), Liberation Cricket -West Indies Cricket Culture, Ian Randle Publishers, Jamaica, 1995, pp. 179-191.
  • [co-authored with Eric Murray] 'On stress and tone in Papiamentu: An alternative analysis', in UWILING :Working Papers in Linguistics (UWI, Mona), Jan. 1995, pp. 43-57.
  • [co-authored with Celia Blake] , 'Developing Technical Vocabulary for Jamaican Creole', in Fodor, I. and Hagege, C. (eds.), Language Reform: History and Future, Helmut Buske Verlag, Hamburg, 1994, pp. 149-162.
  • [co-authored with Walter Seiler] 'A reanalysis of the Phonological System of Jamaican Creole', Society for Caribbean Linguistics, Occasional Papers No, 24, October 1991.
  • 'Standardisation in a Creole Continuum Situation: The Guyana Case', in Cheshire, J. (ed.), English Around the World: Sociolinguistic Perspectives, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1991, pp. 585-594.
  • 'Creole languages and the development of a technological culture in the Caribbean', in Language Issues, Vol. 4, No.1, 1990.
  • 'Language variation theory in the light of co-occurrence restriction rules', York Papers in Linguistics. No.13, 1989. pp 129-139.
  • [co-authored with J .C. Pochard] 'On the diversification of deictic markers', English World Wide, Vol. 9, No.2, 1988, pp.213-266.
  • [co-authored with J.C. Pochard] 'Deixis in English-lexicon Creole: A description of a, da, and de, Lingua. 69, 1986, pp. 105-120.
  • 'Language Planning in the Creole-Speaking Caribbean: A Report', Caribbean Journal of Education. Vol. 11, Nos. 2-3,1984 (actually appearing in 1987), pp.202-217.
  • 'The decay of neo-colonial official language policies: the case of the English-lexicon Creole of the Commonwealth Caribbean', in Gorlach, M. and , Holm, J. (eds.), Varieties of English Around the World: Focus on the I Caribbean, pp.23-51.
  • 'Creole language standardisation in Guyana: race, class and urban-rural factors'. York Papers in Linguistics, No.11. 1984, pp.64- 75.
  • 'Creole languages and the process of socio-economic domination in the Caribbean', Carib: Journal of the West Indies Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, No.3. 1983. pp. 52-69.
  • 'Towards the establishment of an institute for Creole language standardisation and development in the Caribbean', in Carrington, L. (ed. ) Studies in Caribbean Language, Society for Caribbean Linguistics. Trinidad and Tobago, 1983, pp. 300-316.
  • 'Comparative Afro-American, M. Alleyne: A review article', Caribbean Journal of Education, Vol. 8, No,1. 1982, pp. 102-118.

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