Prof. Silvia Kouwenberg

Research Interests

• Research on reduplication in Caribbean Creole languages
• The West African sources of Jamaican Creole grammar and lexicon

Citations

Book, Whole

• Kouwenberg, Silvia, Singler, John Victor . Handbook of pidgin and creole studies.
• Kouwenberg, Silvia. The comparative analysis of Jamaica Creole and English. Lesson plans for 4 classes to be used in the delivery of CAPE Communication Studies in Jamaican high schools
• Kouwenberg, Silvia, Murray, Eric . Papiamentu (Languages of the world/Materials 68)
• Kouwenberg, Silvia. Twice as meaningful. Reduplication in pidgins, creoles and other contact languages.

Book, Chapter

• Kouwenberg, Silvia, LaCharite, Darlene. The mysterious case of diminutive yala-yala
• Kouwenberg, Silvia. Berbice Dutch
• Kouwenberg, Silvia, LaCharite, Darlene, Gooden, Shelome. Reduplication in Jamaican creole
• Kouwenberg, Silvia, LaCharite, Darlene. The meaning of 'more of the same'. Iconicity in reduplication and the evidence for substrate transfer in the genesis of Caribbean creole languages
• Kouwenberg, Silvia. Berbice Dutch creole
• Kouwenberg, Silvia. Theories focusing on the non-European input
• Kouwenberg, Silvia, Muysken, Pieter. Papiamento
• Kouwenberg, Silvia. The problem of multiple substrates: The case of Jamaican creole
• Kouwenberg, Silvia. The relationship between adjectives and verbs, with special reference to Berbice Dutch
• Kouwenberg, Silvia, Dijkhof, Marta, Tjon Sie Fat, Paul . The Dutch-speaking Caribbean / Die niederländischsprachige karibik.
• Kouwenberg, Silvia. Convergence and explanations in creole genesis
• Kouwenberg, Silvia, LaCharite, Darlene. Iconicity in Caribbean Creole reduplication: Inflection versus derivation
• Kouwenberg, Silvia . Berbice Dutch
• Kouwenberg, Silvia. L1 transfer and the cut off point for L2 acquisition processes in creole formation.
• Kouwenberg, Silvia. Grammaticalization and word order in the history of Berbice Dutch Creole
• Kouwenberg, Silvia. Africans in early English Jamaica (1655-1700): The Akan-dominance myth.
• Kouwenberg, Silvia. Some issues in the study of papiamentu tone.
• Kouwenberg, Silvia. Creole formation and second language acquisition: contentious issues.
• Kouwenberg, Silvia. Bare nouns in Berbice Dutch creole
• Kouwenberg, Silvia. Papiamentu (Creole Spanish / Portuguese)
• Kouwenberg, Silvia, LaCharite, Darlene. Less is more: Evidence from diminutive reduplication in Caribbean creole languages

Journal, Article

• Kouwenberg, Silvia. Substrate or superstrate: What's in a name?
• Kouwenberg, Silvia. The grammatical function of Papiamentu tone
• Kouwenberg, Silvia. Creole training and second language acquisition: Contentious issues
• Kouwenberg, Silvia. Creole studies and linguistic typology: part 1 [Guest Column].
• Kouwenberg, Silvia. The prosody-syntax interface and the status of pronouns in Papiamentu
• Kouwenberg, Silvia, Patrick, Peter. Introduction [to current issue of SSLA]
• Kouwenberg, Silvia, Smith, Norval. The art of remembering: the lumbalu of palenque and the genesis of palenquero
• Kouwenberg, Silvia, LaCharite, Darlene. The iconic interpretations of reduplication: Issues in the study of reduplication in Caribbean creole languages
• Kouwenberg, Silvia. Loss in Berbice Dutch creole negative constructions: An examination of competence and performance of the last speakers
• Kouwenberg, Silvia. Atlas of the languages of Suriname, edited by Carlin, Eithne and Arends, Jacques. Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle, 2002.
• Kouwenberg, Silvia. Baptista, Marlyse:The syntax of Cape Verdean creole: The sotavento varieties [Linguistik aktuell/linguistics today, 54] Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2002
• Kouwenberg, Silvia, LaCharite, Darlene. Echoes of Africa. Reduplication in Caribbean creole and Niger-congo languages
• Kouwenberg, Silvia. Conversion in disguise: Observations on Papiamentu non-affixal morphology
• Kouwenberg, Silvia. The timberbos: Dutch- and English-lexicon Creole elements in Guyanese worksongs

Conference Proceedings

• Kouwenberg, Silvia. Africans in early English Jamaica.
• Kouwenberg, Silvia. Identifying the African sources of Jamaican creole
• Kouwenberg, Silvia. The impact of African language in Jamaica : the Akan-dominance myth.
• Kouwenberg, Silvia. Finding the source: creole substrate research in the 21st century.