In my last two pieces, I wrote about two remarkable menJonas Mohammed Bath and Jean-Baptiste Philipwho both lived in Trinidad in the early 1800s, and who both, in different ways, contributed to the ...

Exactly 150 years ago, in April 1869, John Jacob Thomas wrote the preface to his first book, The Theory and Practice of Creole Grammar, which was published in Port of Spain later that year. This ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Folk narrative studies in the United States developed, through the search for "motifs" and "tale types," to a formalism under the influence of ...

Ledikasyon pu travayer (LPT) is getting ready for the International Day of Creole language and culture. Beside a conference by Lindsay Collen held on Saturday at the LPT office in Grande-Rivière on ...

Many popular myths surround Patois (known to linguists as French Creole or French-lexicon Creole), one of which, is that it is not a ‘real’ language, or that it lacks a ‘real’ grammar, or that it ...

[Today we highlight the forthcoming international Linguistics Conference which will be hosted by the University of Guyana’s Department of Language and Cultural Studies within its Faculty of Education ...

Ledikasyon pu travayer (LPT) is getting ready for the International Day of Creole language and culture. Beside a conference by Lindsay Collen held on Saturday at the LPT office in Grande-Rivière on ...