Education

B.A., English Literature, University of Guyana, 1969
M.A., Linguistics, University of Lancaster, England, 1971
Ph.D., Linguistics, University of York, England, 1975

Representative Publications

Morpho-syntactic acculturation at the rural/urban interface in Guyana, American Speech 65.2, 1990, pp. 99-113

A comparative study of aspectual don in creole and Black English, and other contributions in: Walter Edwards and Donald Winford (eds.)
Verb Phrase Patterns in Creole and Black English, Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1991.

Sociolinguistic behavior in a Detroit Inner-city Black neighborhood, Language in Society 21, 1992, pp. 93-115.

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Verb Phrase Patterns in Black English and Creole