Exactly 150 years ago, in April 1869, John Jacob Thomas wrote the preface to his first book, The Theory and Practice of Creole Grammar, which was published in Port of Spain later that year. This ...

In my last two pieces, I wrote about two remarkable menJonas Mohammed Bath and Jean-Baptiste Philipwho both lived in Trinidad in the early 1800s, and who both, in different ways, contributed to the ...

Many popular myths surround Patois (known to linguists as French Creole or French-lexicon Creole), one of which, is that it is not a ‘real’ language, or that it lacks a ‘real’ grammar, or that it ...

American anthropologist [new ser.] v. 55, no. 2, pt. 2, Apr.-June 1953. "Also appears as Memoir no. 43 of the American Folklore Society." siris_sil_199429 ...