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Mervyn C. Alleyne

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Bachelors English University of the West Indies

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According to Wikipedia, Mervyn Coleridge Alleyne was a sociolinguist, creolist and dialectologist whose work focused on the creole languages of the Caribbean. He attended Queen's Royal College in Port-of-Spain and later won a scholarship to the fledgling University College of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica which he entered in 1953. After graduating from Mona, Alleyne obtained a PhD from the University of Strasbourg, France. He returned to the University of the West Indies , Mona as a lecturer in 1959, and was made Professor of Sociolinguistics in 1982. He returned to his homeland for a brief spell and lectured at the St Augustine campus of the UWI. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.

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Mervyn C. Alleyne's Published Works

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Comparative Afro-American: An Historical Comparative Study of English Based Afro-American Dialects of the New World (1980) (108)
Roots of Jamaican culture (1988) (96)
The Construction and Representation of Race and Ethnicity in the Caribbean and the World (2002) (58)
Language and the Social Construction of Identity in Creole Situations (1995) (53)
Jamaican Folk Medicine: A Source of Healing (2004) (29)
Substratum Inflluences — Guilty until Proven Innocent (1986) (23)
Comparative Afro-American: An Historical-Comparative Study of Some Afro-American Dialects in the New World (1983) (19)
The complexity that really matters: The role of political economy in creole genesis (2007) (14)
Africa: Roots of Jamaican Culture (1996) (11)
15. Comparative perspectives on the origins, development and structure of Amazonian (Karipúna) French Creole (2007) (7)
Language Maintenance and Language Death in the Caribbean (1982) (6)
Opposite processes in “creolization” (2001) (6)
Enacting Power: The Criminalization of Obeah in the Anglophone Caribbean, 1760-2012 by Jerome S. Handler and Kenneth M. Bilby (review) (2014) (5)
Studies in Saramaccan language structure (1987) (5)
Pidgin and Creole Languages. By Suzanne Romaine (1989) (4)
The Role of Africa in the Construction of Identities in the Caribbean (2003) (2)
Linguistics and the oral Tradition (2003) (1)
Theoretical issues in Caribbean linguistics (1982) (1)
Estandarización de lenguas criollas y la educación en comunidades criollas (2002) (0)
DEGREES OF RESTRUCTURING IN CREOLE LANGUAGES CREOLE LANGUAGE LIBRARY (CLL) (2005) (0)
Does creologeny really recapitulate ontogeny (1996) (0)
Gender in caribbean language and society (2007) (0)
Locating St. Martin in Caribbean sociolinguistic typology (2008) (0)
Jerome S. Handler and Kenneth M. Bilby. 2012. Enacting Power: The Criminalization of Obeah in the Anglophone Caribbean 1760-2012. (2015) (0)
DEGREES OF RESTRUCTURING IN CREOLE LANGUAGES CREOLE LANGUAGE LIBRARY (CLL) (2005) (0)
LA PRIMERA EXPERIENCIA DE ICSI Y MESA EN PANAMA, CENTROAMERICA Y EL CARIBE | THE FIRST EXPERIENCE OF ICSI AND PULLS IN PANAMA, CENTRAL AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN MORE FREQUENT. (1998) (0)

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University of the West Indies