Derek Bickerton

List of John Benjamins publications for which Derek Bickerton plays a role.

Titles

The Emergence of Protolanguage: Holophrasis vs compositionality

Edited by Michael A. Arbib and Derek Bickerton

[Benjamins Current Topics, 24] 2010. xi, 181 pp.
Subjects Evolution of language | Theoretical linguistics

Holophrasis vs Compositionality in the Emergence of Protolanguage

Edited by Michael A. Arbib and Derek Bickerton

Special issue of Interaction Studies 9:1 (2008) 184 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Evolution of language
Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Syntax

Articles

Bickerton, Derek 2014 The myth of creole “exceptionalism”The Sociolinguistics of Grammar, Åfarli, Tor A. and Brit Mæhlum (eds.), pp. 191–202 | Article
Recently claims that the universalist approach to creole languages treats them as “exceptional” are misconceived. The only thing “exceptional” about creoles is the sociohistorical context within which creoles originated. Creoles utilize the same processes that are deployed during “normal” language… read more
Bickerton, Derek 2010 But how did protolanguage actually start?The Emergence of Protolanguage: Holophrasis vs compositionality, Arbib, Michael A. and Derek Bickerton (eds.), pp. 167–174 | Article
In dealing with the nature of protolanguage, an important formative factor in its development, and one that would surely have influenced that nature, has too often been neglected: the precise circumstances under which protolanguage arose. Three factors are involved in this neglect: a failure to… read more
Bickerton, Derek 2009 Recursion: Core of complexity or artifact of analysis?Syntactic Complexity: Diachrony, acquisition, neuro-cognition, evolution, Givón, T. and Masayoshi Shibatani (eds.), pp. 531–544 | Article
Bickerton, Derek 2008 But how did protolanguage actually start?Holophrasis vs Compositionality in the Emergence of Protolanguage, Arbib, Michael A. and Derek Bickerton (eds.), pp. 169–176 | Article
In dealing with the nature of protolanguage, an important formative factor in its development, and one that would surely have influenced that nature, has too often been neglected: the precise circumstances under which protolanguage arose. Three factors are involved in this neglect: a failure to… read more
Bickerton, Derek 2006 Creoles, capitalism, and colonialismHistory, Society and Variation: In honor of Albert Valdman, Clements, J. Clancy, Thomas A. Klingler, Deborah Piston-Hatlen and Kevin J. Rottet (eds.), pp. 137–152 | Article
Bickerton, Derek 1999 Pidgins and Language MixtureCreole Genesis, Attitudes and Discourse: Studies celebrating Charlene J. Sato, Rickford, John R. and Suzanne Romaine (eds.), pp. 31 ff. | Article
Bickerton, Derek 1999 Derek Bickerton in response to J.L. DillardJournal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 14:1, pp. 222–223 | Miscellaneous
Afrogenesis is taken here to mean the belief that the English-based Atlantic creole languages originated on the West Coast of Africa. This paper shows that Afrogenesis, originally proposed in work by Hancock and by Smith, and now given a new lease on life by McWhorter, is at best highly dubious.… read more
Bickerton, Derek 1996 The origins of variations in GuyaneseTowards a Social Science of Language: Papers in honor of William Labov, Guy, Gregory R., Crawford Feagin, Deborah Schiffrin and John Baugh (eds.), pp. 311 ff. | Article
Bickerton, Derek 1996 Derek BickertonJournal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 11:1, pp. 179–180 | Miscellaneous
Bickerton, Derek 1994 Will the real Hawaii Pidgin stand up?Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 9:2, pp. 427–428 | Miscellaneous
Bickerton, Derek 1992 Response to MufweneDiachronica 9:1, pp. 145–148 | Miscellaneous
Two recent works by Carden & Stewart (1988) and Arends (1989) have tried to prove a gradual rather than a single-generational origin for Haitian and Sranan respectively. Both arguments, however, are severely flawed. The Carden-Stewart argument from Haitian reflexivization is shown to depend on… read more
Bickerton, Derek and Marcel Rosalie 1990 Sanson PirogJournal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 5:1, pp. 121–124 | Squib
Hitherto it has been believed that serial verb constructions were not found in the French Creoles of the Indian Ocean. In fact, there exists a wide variety of such constructions in both Morisyen and Seselwa; extensive examples from Seselwa are provided. However, for less basilectal speakers, such… read more
Bickerton, Derek 1988 RelexificationJournal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 3:2, pp. 277–282 | To be specified
Bickerton, Derek 1987 Beyond Roots: Lessons from LifeJournal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 2:1, pp. 49–55 | Miscellaneous
Bickerton, Derek 1987 Beyond Roots: Knowing What's WhatJournal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 2:2, pp. 229–237 | Miscellaneous
Bickerton, Derek 1986 Beyond Roots: The Five-Year TestJournal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 1:2, pp. 225–232 | Miscellaneous
Bickerton, Derek 1986 Beyond Roots: Progress or Regress?Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 1:1, pp. 135–140 | Miscellaneous
Bickerton, Derek 1984 The language bioprogram hypothesis and second language acquisitionLanguage Universals and Second Language Acquisition, Rutherford, William E. (ed.), pp. 141 ff. | Article
Bickerton, Derek 1979 24. The status of bin in the Atlantic creolesReadings in Creole Studies, Hancock, Ian F. (ed.), pp. 309–314 | Chapter