Bickerton claims that his work is intended to provide at least a partial answer to three questions. These are, (1) How did Creole languages originate?, (2) How do children acquire language?, and (3) How did human language originate? He argues that these three questions are related one to the other, and that answers to these three questions are included within the theory which he is putting forward. The foundation of his theory rests on the answers which he puts forward in response to the first question.

There has been an enormous increase in the power and influence of Creole speakers in those countries of the Caribbean where Creole languages are the major language of everyday communication. This increase in influence over the past two decades has been the result of the anti-colonial movement, political independence and efforts by the mass of the population and their organisations to exert more control over the political and economic systems within these societies. There has been, in the area of language use, a clear expression of the changes taking place elsewhere in the society.

This paper will discuss an activist approach made at the University of the West Indies, Mona to implement a 'Speaking Across the Curriculum' (SAC) Programme, as a response to the University's Strategic Plan of 2007-2012. Although it has long been agreed on that the University needs a programme instilled in its curricula that would ensure the production of graduates that are competent and effective oral communicators, to date no such programme exists.

The current study explores the racial and linguistic self-concept of 138 children between the ages of 5 and 10 years, enrolled in a poor, urban, Jamaican government school. In Jamaica, studies into the racial self-concept of adults have been conducted since as early as 1952 (Kerr); however no study into the development of racial and linguistic self-concept in Jamaican children has yet been documented.

In the modern world, one of the major means of storing written information and subsequently gaining access to it, is the computer. With some Caribbean Creole Languages like Haitian and Papiamentu already having officially entered the written domain, and many likely to follow, the question of the relationship between these languages and modern computer technology becomes quite relevant.

This work is a very important contribution to the understanding of the language and linguistic heritage of Afro-Americans, this last term being used by Alleyne to refer to all people of African descent in the Western Hemisphere. In relation to those Afro-American language varieties spoken in the Caribbean, on which this book has tended to focus, this is one of only a very small number of book-length works produced so far. The bulk of the work on Afro-Caribbean language varieties is dispersed all over the place, usually in the form of articles in academic journals.