John R. Rickford
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John R. Rickford's Degrees
- PhD Linguistics University of Pennsylvania
- Masters Linguistics University of Pennsylvania
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Russell Rickford is a Guyanese–American academic and author. Rickford is the J. E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Linguistics and the Humanities at Stanford University's Department of Linguistics and the Stanford Graduate School of Education, where he has taught since 1980. His book Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English, which he wrote together with his son, Russell J. Rickford, won the American Book Award in 2000.
John R. Rickford's Published Works
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Published Works
- Style and Sociolinguistic Variation. (2002) (466)
- Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English (2000) (342)
- Raciolinguistics How Language Shapes Our Ideas About Race (2016) (295)
- African American Vernacular English: Features, Evolution, Educational Implications (1999) (280)
- Racial disparities in automated speech recognition (2020) (259)
- Rappin on the copula coffin: Theoretical and methodological issues in the analysis of copula variation in African-American Vernacular English (1991) (181)
- The need for new approaches to social class analysis in sociolinguistics (1986) (168)
- Language and linguistics on trial: Hearing Rachel Jeantel (and other vernacular speakers) in the courtroom and beyond (2016) (160)
- Are Black and White Vernaculars Diverging? Papers from the NWAVE XIV Panel Discussion (1987) (131)
- The Ebonics controversy in my backyard: a sociolinguist’s experiences and reflections (1999) (117)
- Social Contact and Linguistic Diffusion: Hiberno-English and New World Black English (1986) (115)
- Dialect Readers Revisited (1995) (111)
- Prior Creolization of African‐American Vernacular English? Sociohistorical and Textual Evidence from the 17th and 18th Centuries (1997) (108)
- Dimensions of a Creole continuum : history, texts, linguistic analysis of Guyanese Creole (1987) (98)
- Girlz II women: Age‐grading, language change and stylistic variation (2013) (87)
- Preterite had + V-ed in the narratives of African-American preadolescents (1996) (86)
- African Words and Gestures in New World Guise (1976) (86)
- An optimality theoretic approach to variation in negative inversion in AAVE (1996) (85)
- Syntactic Variation and Change in Progress: Loss of the Verbal Coda in Topic-Restricting as Far as Constructions. (1995) (82)
- Unequal partnership: Sociolinguistics and the African American speech community (1997) (81)
- Intensive and quotative all : Something old, something new (2007) (78)
- A Modern Regulatory Framework for Company Law in Europe (2002) (75)
- More than a mood or an attitude: Discourse and verbal genres in African-American culture (1998) (72)
- Report of the High Level Group of Company Law Experts on Issues Related to Takeover Bids in the European Union (2002) (70)
- Language in the USA : themes for the twenty-first century (2004) (69)
- AFRICAN-AMERICAN LANGUAGE USE: IDEOLOGY AND SO-CALLED OBSCENITY (2013) (59)
- Some aspects of African-American vernacular English phonology (2013) (56)
- Ethnicity as a Sociolinguistic Boundary (1985) (55)
- VARIATION IN A CREOLE CONTINUUM: QUANTITATIVE AND IMPLICATIONAL APPROACHES. (1979) (54)
- African American English and other Vernaculars in Education (2004) (54)
- The haves and have nots: Sociolinguistic surveys and the assessment of speaker competence (1987) (53)
- 2. Using the Vernacular to Teach the Standard (2005) (49)
- Standard and Non-Standard Language Attitudes in a Creole Continuum (1985) (49)
- Reforming Capital: Report of the Interdisciplinary Group on Capital Maintenance (2004) (48)
- African-American English : Structure, History and Use (2013) (46)
- Co-existent systems in African-American vernacular English (2013) (33)
- Neighborhood effects on use of African-American Vernacular English (2015) (33)
- The creole origins of African-American vernacular English: evidence from copula absence (2013) (32)
- Grammatical variation and divergence in Vernacular Black English (1992) (30)
- The sociolinguistics of a short-lived innovation: Tracing the development of quotative all across spoken and internet newsgroup data (2010) (30)
- Textual Evidence on the Nature of Early Barbadian Speech, 1676-1835 (1994) (29)
- The sentence in African-American vernacular English (2013) (26)
- AAVE/creole copula absence: A critique of the imperfect learning hypothesis (2009) (26)
- Style and Sociolinguistic Variation: Style and stylizing from the perspective of a non-autonomous sociolinguistics (2002) (25)
- How Does Doz Disappear (1980) (25)
- Down for the count? The Creole Origins Hypothesis of AAVE at the hands of the Ottawa Circle, and their supporters (2006) (24)
- Copula Contraction and Absence in Barbadian English, Samaná English and Vernacular Black English (1990) (24)
- Comparative Afro-American: An Historical-Comparative Study of Some Afro-American Dialects in the New World (1983) (19)
- Labov's contributions to the study of African American Vernacular English: Pursuing linguistic and social equity† (2016) (17)
- Couplandia and beyond (2002) (17)
- Number Delimitation in Gullah: A Response to Mufwene (1990) (16)
- Representativeness and Reliability of the Ex-Slave Materials, With Special Reference to Wallace Quarterman’s Recording and Transcript (1991) (16)
- Sociolinguistic Variation: Variation, versatility, and Contrastive Analysis in the classroom (2007) (16)
- The Proposed Tenth Company Law Directive on Cross Border Mergers and its Impact in the UK (2005) (16)
- Variation, Versatility and Change in Sociolinguistics and Creole Studies (2019) (16)
- A dissection of style-shifting (2002) (15)
- Legal Approaches to Restricting Distributions to Shareholders: Balance Sheet Tests and Solvency Tests (2006) (15)
- Symbol of Powerlessness and Degeneracy, or Symbol of Solidarity and Truth? (2019) (14)
- Dimensions of a Creole continuum : quantitative and implicational approaches (1979) (14)
- Aspect and predicate phrases in African-American vernacular English (2013) (13)
- Creole genesis, attitudes and discourse : studies celebrating Charlene J. Sato (1999) (13)
- African American, Creole, and Other Vernacular Englishes in Education: A Bibliographic Resource (2012) (12)
- The structure of the noun phrase in African-American vernacular English (2013) (11)
- Word from the hood: the lexicon of African-American vernacular English (2013) (11)
- COEXISTENT SYSTEMS IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN ENGLISH (2007) (10)
- English around the world: Sociolinguistic variation in Cane Walk: a quantitative case study (1991) (10)
- An Introduction to the New UK Companies Act (2008) (10)
- GEOGRAPHICAL DIVERSITY, RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION, AND THE VITALITY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN VERNACULAR ENGLISH AND ITS SPEAKERS (2010) (9)
- Variation in the Jamaican Creole Copula and its Relation to the Genesis of AAVE: New Data and Analysis (1999) (9)
- Copula variability in Jamaican creole and African American vernacular English: A reanalysis of DeCamp’s texts (1996) (9)
- Situation: Stylistic Variation in Sociolinguistic Corpora and Theory (2014) (9)
- Social Class Groupings in Sociolinguistic Research (1987) (8)
- Variation theory: implicational scaling and critical age limits in models of linguistic variation, acquisition and change (1991) (8)
- Sociolinguistics and Language Teaching: Regional and social variation (1995) (7)
- An Introduction to the New UK Companies Act: Part II (2008) (7)
- Comments on ‘ethics, advocacy and empowerment’ (1993) (6)
- The Creole Origins Hypothesis (2015) (6)
- Protectionism, Capital Freedom, and the Internal Market (2010) (6)
- Zeroing in on multifunctionality and style (2002) (6)
- Fundamentals, Developments and Trends in British Company Law – Some Wider Reflections Second Part: Current British Priorities and Wider Reflections (2005) (6)
- A Festival of Guyanese Words (1982) (6)
- The European company : developing a community law of corporations : collected papers from the Leiden University Unilever Programme, 2002 (2003) (5)
- D. A Linguist Looks At the Ebonics Debate (2005) (5)
- Perspectives in Company Law and Financial Regulation: Free movement of capital and protectionism after Volkswagen and Viking Line (2009) (5)
- Le Page’s theoretical and applied legacy in sociolinguistics and creole studies (2011) (4)
- Contraction and Deletion of the Copula in Barbadian English: Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1990) (4)
- Style shifting in a creole-speaking community (2014) (4)
- Current Developments in European Law on the Restructuring of Companies: An Introduction (2004) (4)
- Sociolinguistics and the Public: Digging and Being Dug in Return (2000) (4)
- Language Contact and Language Generation: Pidgins and Creoles (2017) (4)
- Takeovers in Europe – shareholder decisions and open markets – a UK perspective (2005) (3)
- Corporate Governance Disclosures in Europe (2005) (3)
- Connections between sociolinguistics and pidgin–creole studies (1988) (3)
- ‘Me Tarzan, you Jane!’ Adequacy, expressiveness, and the creole speaker (1986) (3)
- Fundamentals, Developments and Trends in British Company Law – Some Wider Reflections. First Part: Overview and the British Approach (2004) (3)
- Style and Sociolinguistic Variation: Introduction: John R. Rickford and Penelope Eckert (2002) (2)
- The Emerging European Takeover Law from a British Perspective (2004) (2)
- Crafting a more integrated, specific, and community-sensitive approach to applied sociolinguistics (2018) (2)
- AN EARLY STUDY OF THE SPEECH OF YOUNG BLACK CHILDREN IN CALIFORNIA: WHY IT MATTERS (2014) (2)
- Unequal partnership: Sociolinguistics and the (2016) (2)
- Capital and Establishment – Never the Twain shall Meet? (2010) (2)
- The field of Pidgin‐Creole studies: A review article on Loreto Todd's Pidgins and Creoles. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974 (1977) (2)
- University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), and the summer of 1969 (2021) (2)
- Language Attitudes in a Creole Continuum. (1980) (2)
- AAVE/Creole copula absence (2008) (1)
- The Social Context of “Special” Second Language Acquisition (1985) (1)
- A FRICAN A MERICAN V ERNACULAR E NGLISH : R OOTS AND B RANCHES (2006) (1)
- A Variationist Approach to Subject–Aux Question Inversion in Bajan and Other Caribbean Creole Englishes, AAVE and Appalachian (2019) (1)
- How I fell in love with linguistics and Black Talk (2021) (0)
- Forebears and cousins (2021) (0)
- Peter Trudgill, Dialects in contact (Language in Society 10). Oxford and New York: Basil Blackwell, 1986. Pp. viii + 174. (1990) (0)
- Stanford in Oxford—David Dabydeen and Dennis Brutus (2021) (0)
- Stylistic Variation in Panel Studies of Language Change (2021) (0)
- Queen's College (my high school) (2021) (0)
- Variation and the Versatility Approach to Language Arts in Schools and Societies (2019) (0)
- African American Vernacular English in California (2015) (0)
- The Sea Islands (2021) (0)
- Corporations in Private International Law—a European Perspective. By Rammeloo Stephan [Oxford University Press. 2001. xlvii + 349 pp. ISBN 0–19–829925–7. £80.00] (2003) (0)
- Real Estate Law Books (2017) (0)
- Speaking my Soul (2021) (0)
- Language in the USA: Editors' preface (2004) (0)
- Online Legal Research (2017) (0)
- Forgive me, my son. Thank you, my parents (2021) (0)
- Rosa Parks at Stanford (2021) (0)
- Against Consensus: Challenging the New Anglicists' Contentions Concerning the Development of AAVE (2006) (0)
- Violation of the Tax Secret (2018) (0)
- How Does "Doz" Disappear? (Or: Where Are the Creolists When the Creoles Most Need Them?). (1975) (0)
- Johnny and Johnny (Agard) and the police (2021) (0)
- Siblings (2021) (0)
- Charlene Junko Sato (1951–1996) (1999) (0)
- Going to America (2021) (0)
- Charlene Junko Sato (1951–1996): Biography and Bibliography (1999) (0)
- Driving While under the Influence of Drink (2017) (0)
- Real Property Law (2017) (0)
- Epilogue: The gift of Love (2021) (0)
- Language in the USA: List of tables (2004) (0)
- Incitement to the Commission of Offences (2017) (0)
- Friends and girlfriends (2021) (0)
- Baby Wade, my Mom (2021) (0)
- Variationist creolistics, with a phonological focus (2017) (0)
- Ebonics, Rachel Jeantel, Trayvon Martin, Black Lives Matter (2021) (0)
- Reforming Legal Capital : Harmonisation of Fragmentation of Creditor Protection? (2010) (0)
- SIL Electronic Book Reviews 2006-005 Style and sociolinguistic variation (2006) (0)
- 14. Language Contact and Language Generation: Pidgins and Creoles (2008) (0)
- African and African American Studies, Learning Expeditions, Kongo Cosmograms (2021) (0)
- Reforming Capital: An Introductory Note (2004) (0)
- Foreword by John R. Rickford (2002) (0)
- Publications Received (2017) (0)
- Youngest of ten, and my monkey and rabbit (2021) (0)
- Style and Sociolinguistic Variation: References (2002) (0)
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