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Name:	Silvia  Kouwenberg
Institution:	University of the West Indies
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State and/or Country:	US Jamaica
Linguistic Field(s):	General Linguistics
Subject Language(s):	Creole Dutch, Berbice Kalabari Creole English, Jamaican Papiamento
Language Family(ies):	Creole
Selected Publications:	1994. A grammar of Berbice Dutch Creole (Mouton Grammar Library 12). Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 1994. With Eric Murray. Papiamentu (Languages of the world/Materials 68). München: Lincom Europa. 2003. Editor of: Twice as meaningful. Reduplication in pidgins, creoles and other contact languages. Westminster Creolistics Series 8. London: Battlebridge Publications. 2003. With Peter Patrick. Editor of: Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Vol 25 No 2. Special issue on second language acquisition and creolization. To appear. With John V. Singler. Editors of: Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Studies. Oxford: Blackwell.
Announced on LINGUIST :	Twice as Meaningful  The Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Studies
Reviewed on LINGUIST :	Twice as Meaningful
Courses Taught:	Creole Linguistics (undergraduate & graduate levels) Caribbean Dialectology (undergraduate) Phonology (undergraduate & graduate levels) Syntax (ndergraduate & graduate levels)
Dissertation Director * of:	Predicate Marking in the Bahamian Basilect: An integrated approach (Helean McPhee, Author)
Dissertation Director * of:	The African Lexis in Jamaican: Its linguistic and sociohistorical significance (Joseph Farquharson, Author)
Dissertation Director * of:	An Analysis of dual Aspectual Forms in Caribbean English Creoles: An event structure approach (Marsha Forbes-Barnett, Author)
Dissertation Director * of:	Quantification in Jamaican Creole: The syntax and semantics of evri ('every') in interaction with indefinites (Michele Stewart, Author)
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