Don E. Walicek
I am based at the University of Puerto Rico's Río Piedras Campus, where I have directed the Institute of Caribbean Studies, a research unit based in the College of Social Sciences, since August 2024.
In addition, I teach in the Department of English and the Graduate Program Linguistics, both of which are within the College of Humanities. In linguistics, my main interests are in the areas of sociolinguistics, historical sociolinguistics, and discourse analysis. These interests inform my work on linguistic and cultural contact in the Caribbean (in particular, Anguilla, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic).
I am also interested in cultural studies and the analysis of colonization and empire. These interests frame the volume 'Guantánamo and American Empire; The Humanities Respond' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), which I co-edited with Jessica Adams, some of my publications on the history of Anguilla, and work that I have completed as editor of the Caribbean Studies journal 'Sargasso,' including the volumes 'Guantánamo: What's Next?' and 'Camps, (In)justice, & Solidarity.'
Address: San Juan, Puerto Rico
In addition, I teach in the Department of English and the Graduate Program Linguistics, both of which are within the College of Humanities. In linguistics, my main interests are in the areas of sociolinguistics, historical sociolinguistics, and discourse analysis. These interests inform my work on linguistic and cultural contact in the Caribbean (in particular, Anguilla, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic).
I am also interested in cultural studies and the analysis of colonization and empire. These interests frame the volume 'Guantánamo and American Empire; The Humanities Respond' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), which I co-edited with Jessica Adams, some of my publications on the history of Anguilla, and work that I have completed as editor of the Caribbean Studies journal 'Sargasso,' including the volumes 'Guantánamo: What's Next?' and 'Camps, (In)justice, & Solidarity.'
Address: San Juan, Puerto Rico
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(TMA) system of Papiamentu has been cited by a number of researchers (Andersen
1993; Bickerton 1980, 1981) both as being exceptional in relation to other Creoles
of the Caribbean and as being deviant from universal strategies for marking TMA
attributed by some to Creole languages worldwide, Papiamentu TMA operates
essentially on the basis of the same system found in most Atlantic Creoles as well
as in most of their West African substrate languages. All of the features which
Andersen (1993: 89–91) and others cite as ‘aberrant’ in Papiamentu, including:
(1) the near obligatory use of the markers a or ta before verbs; (2) the absence
of a ‘Ø marker’ for perfective aspect; (3) the existence of two irrealis markers (lo
and Ø) and the ‘deviant position’ of lo; (4) the dual (tense and aspect) function of
the marker tabata; and (5) the lack of a specifi c morpheme that functions
exclusively as an anterior marker; are all shown to be the result of features and
patterns of grammatical change found throughout the Afro-Atlantic.
Edited volumes of Sargasso by Don E. Walicek
(TMA) system of Papiamentu has been cited by a number of researchers (Andersen
1993; Bickerton 1980, 1981) both as being exceptional in relation to other Creoles
of the Caribbean and as being deviant from universal strategies for marking TMA
attributed by some to Creole languages worldwide, Papiamentu TMA operates
essentially on the basis of the same system found in most Atlantic Creoles as well
as in most of their West African substrate languages. All of the features which
Andersen (1993: 89–91) and others cite as ‘aberrant’ in Papiamentu, including:
(1) the near obligatory use of the markers a or ta before verbs; (2) the absence
of a ‘Ø marker’ for perfective aspect; (3) the existence of two irrealis markers (lo
and Ø) and the ‘deviant position’ of lo; (4) the dual (tense and aspect) function of
the marker tabata; and (5) the lack of a specifi c morpheme that functions
exclusively as an anterior marker; are all shown to be the result of features and
patterns of grammatical change found throughout the Afro-Atlantic.