Peter L. Patrick
List of John Benjamins publications for which Peter L. Patrick plays a role.
Book series
ISSN 0172-7362
Title
Urban Jamaican Creole: Variation in the Mesolect
Peter L. Patrick
[Varieties of English Around the World, G17] 1999. xx, 329 pp.
Subjects Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Articles
2017 Number marking in Jamaican Patwa Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas: In honor of John V. Singler, Cutler, Cecelia, Zvjezdana Vrzić and Philipp Angermeyer (eds.), pp. 275–304 | Chapter
Variation is examined in marking of number on plural nouns in mesolectal Jamaican Patwa (JP). Earlier claims for grammatical/functional principles constraining variation are found wanting. Two corpora are analyzed. I provide a taxonomy of surface structures which map reliably onto the level of… read more
1997 Style and register in Jamaican Patwa Englishes around the World: Studies in honour of Manfred Görlach, Schneider, Edgar W. (ed.), pp. 41 ff. | Article
1996 The urbanization of creole phonology: variation and change in Jamaican (KYA) Towards a Social Science of Language: Papers in honor of William Labov, Guy, Gregory R., Crawford Feagin, Deborah Schiffrin and John Baugh (eds.), pp. 329 ff. | Article
