RECENT  PUBLICATIONS
Books
2007  Noun Phrases in Creole Languages: A Multi-faceted Approach, co-edited with Jacqueline Guéron, [The Creole Language Library], Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

2002  The  Syntax of Cape Verdean Creole: The Sotavento Varieties, [Linguistics Today Linguistik Aktuell 54], Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Nominated for the 2003 Gustav O. Arlt Award in the Humanities. 
  
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
(in press)   “Economy, innovation and degrees of complexity in creole formation.” To appear in Complex Processes in New Languages, Enoch Aboh and Norval Smith (eds.). The Creole Language Library.  Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

(in press)   “Cape Verdean Creole in education: a linguistic and human right.” To appear in Creoles and Education , Bettina Migge et al. (eds.).  The Creole Language Library.  Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

2007a. “On the three –ist theories in Creolistics and why they should be put to rest: The case of Réunionnais Creole.” In Mondes Créoles et Francophones [a festschrift in honor of Robert Chaudenson], Patrice Brasseur and Georges Daniel Véronique (eds.). Paris: L’Harmattan, 53-60.

2007b. “Feature selection and competition in creole formation: A case study.” Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 13.2.  Paper selected from the conference proceedings of NWAV 35, 38-50.

2007c.  “Noun Phrases in Creole languages: An introductory overview.” Co-authored with Jacqueline Guéron. In Noun Phrases in Creole Languages: A Multi-faceted Approach, co-edited with Jacqueline Guéron, [The Creole Language Library], Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 3-34.

2007d. “Functional deficiency, ellipsis or innovation in creole languages?: A postface.” Co-authored with Jacqueline Guéron. In Noun Phrases in Creole Languages: A Multi-faceted Approach, co-edited with Jacqueline Guéron, [The Creole Language Library], Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 471-483.

2007e. “Properties of noun phrases in creole languages: a synthetic comparative exposition.” In Noun Phrases in Creole Languages: A Multi-faceted Approach, co-edited with Jacqueline Guéron, [The Creole Language Library], Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 459-470.

2007f. “On the syntax and semantics of DP in Cape Verdean Creole.” In Noun Phrases in Creole Languages: A Multi-faceted Approach, co-edited with Jacqueline Guéron, [The Creole Language Library], Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 61-106.

2007g. “Étude comparative des phrases copulatives: Facteurs de variation et ramifications typologiques.”  In Grammaires Créoles et Grammaire Comparative, Anne Zribi-Hertz & Karl Gadelii (eds.), Sciences du Langage.  Vincennes: Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 183-208.

2007h. “The syntax of Cape Verdean Creole and Guinea-Bissau Creole”.  Co-authored with Heliana Mello and Miki Suzuki.  In Comparative Creole Syntax, John Holm and Peter Patrick (eds.), London: Westminster Creolistics Series, Battlebridge, 53-82.

2006  “When substrates meet superstrate: The case of Cape Verdean Creole.”
In Cabo Verde - Origens da sua Sociedade e do seu Crioulo -, Jürgen Lang, John Holm, Jean-Louis Rougé and Maria João Soares (eds.),  Tübingen: Narr.

2005  “New directions in pidgin and creole studies.” Annual Review of Anthropology 34: 33-42.

2004  “A cross-linguistic comparison of copular predication: Some basic assumptions revisited.”  The Journal of Portuguese Linguistics 3: 97-113.

2003a. “Number inflection in creole languages.” Interface 6: 3-26.

2003b. “Inflectional plural marking in creoles and pidgins: A comparative study.”  In The Phonology and Morphology of Creole Languages, Ingo Plag (ed.), Tübingen: Niemeyer, 315-332.

2003c. “Reduplication in Cape Verdean Creole.”  In Twice as Meaningful: Reduplication in Pidgins and Creoles, Silvia Kouwenberg (ed.), London: Westminster Creolistics Series, Battlebridge, 177-185.

2003d. “Licensing conditions on cliticization in Cape Verdean Creole.”  In Recent Developments in Creole Studies, Dany Adone (ed.), Tübingen: Niemeyer, 109-134. 

2000a. “Le créole de Guinée Bissau: Genèse et situation sociolinguistique.” Africultures 26: 69-72.

2000b. “Verb movement in four creole languages: A comparative analysis.” In Language Change and Language Contact in Pidgins and Creoles, John McWhorter (ed.), [The Creole Language Library 21], Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1-33. 

Book Reviews

In press Review in Pidgin Carrier. Book title: Dicionário do Crioulo da Ilha de Santiago (Cabo Verde), Tübingen: Narr. 2002. By Jürgen Lang.

2004   Review in Studies in Language.  Book title: Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 2000. By Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuch & Edgard Schneider (eds.), 56-59.

2001a.  Review in Pidgin Carrier.  Book title: Changing Meanings, Changing Functions: Papers Relating to Grammaticalization in Contact Languages, Westminster: University of Westminster Press. 1996. By Philip Baker and Anand Syea (eds.), 21-22.

2001b. Review in the Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages. Book title: Lexique du Créole de Santiago – Français/Léxico Crioulo Santiaguense – Francês Lésiku Badiu – Fransés, Paris: Editions Nicolas Quint. 1996. By Nicolas Abrial, 188-190.

2001c. Review in the Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages Book title: Dictionnaire Bilingue Portugais-Français: Guinée-Bissau, Paris: CNRS. 2001. By Jean-Michel Massa, 190-192.

2000  Review in Syntax. Book title: Language Creation and Language Change:  Creolization, Diachrony, and Development, Cambridge: MIT Press. 1999. By Michel DeGraff (ed.), 52-57. 

Notes in Encyclopedias
2005  “Cape Verdean Creole.” Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Keith Brown (ed.-in-chief). Boston-London: Elsevier. 187-198.

2004a. “Cape Verdean Creole.”  Co-authored with Bert Vaux (Harvard University), Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Philipp Strazny (ed.).  New York: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 172-173. 

2004b. “Lesser Antillean French Creole.” Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Philipp Strazny (ed.). Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 615-617.  

Other Publications

2008  ‘In the Profession’ column: “African American English: Connecting Linguistics’ message with a mission.” Co-authored with Robin Queen (Robin Queen as first author).  The Journal of English Linguistics, 36-2.

2007  UGA Working Papers in Linguistics, co-edited with Alberto Centeno-Pulido.

2001  UGA Working Papers in Linguistics, co-edited with Lamont Antieau.