The teaching of English in a creole-speaking environment (joint with Dr Yewande Lewis-Fokum, PhD candidate Sashann Dixon, and Dr Michele Kennedy., Topics in Creole Linguistics, especially the historical emergence of creole languages and their formal properties, in particular Berbice Dutch, Papiamentu, and Jamaican Creole.
October 1991: Ph.D. in Linguistics summa cum laude (Faculty of Arts, University of Amsterdam); August 1985: M.A. in Social Policy Studies; August 1981: B.A. in Social Policy Studies (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam).
Current Position: Professor of Linguistics. Department of Language, Linguistics and Philosophy, University of the West Indies (Mona Campus).
First appointment as Lecturer October 1991; Senior Lecturer September 1997; Professor of Linguistics May 2009; Head of Department August 2011-July 2014; Deputy Dean for Undergraduate and Quality Assurance Matters in the Faculty of Humanities & Education August 2015-July 2018. Mona Academic Board representative on the UWI Senate, 2012-2017.
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