Joy P G Peltier
Biographic Data
| ID | 1508331 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joy P G Peltier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joy P G |
| FAMILY NAME | Peltier |
| SIGNATURE | PELTIER J P G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Carolina |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6551-9004 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Noun phrases in Kwéyòl Donmnik
Though Creole nominal systems have been intensely researched, in-context, corpus-based examinations are uncommon, and there are Creole languages whose noun phrases remain understudied. I use a corpus of conversational data and a pattern-building task designed to elicit demonstrative and definite noun phrases, exophoric reference, and co-speech pointing gestures to explore the noun phrase in Kwéyòl Donmnik, an endangered, understudied French lexif…
Pragmatic Markers in Kwéyòl Donmnik, French, & English
Pragmatic markers (PMs) are multifunctional elements that allow language users to organize and coordinate discourse and to express their attitudes and cognitive states. This study compares the discourse-pragmatic functions and distributional features of four PMs in Kwéyòl Donmnik (konsa ‘so’, èben ‘well’, papa/Bondyé ‘papa/God’, la ‘there’) with those of their etyma in French, Kwéyòl’s lexifier ((ou) comme ça, (eh) ben, bon Dieu, là), and with th…
Metalinguistic knowledge of pragmatic markers in Kwéyòl Donmnik and English
Through interviews with bilingual users of Kwéyòl Donmnik (Dominica Creole), an understudied and endangered French lexifier Creole, and a questionnaire for users of English, a colonial language that has been in intense contact with Kwéyòl for over 200 years, this study investigates the metalinguistic knowledge members of each language community have about a selection of pragmatic markers that are cross-linguistically similar: Kwéyòl konsa 'so', è…
The Multi Project
Research Article| May 01 2024 The MULTI Project: Resources for Enhancing Multifaceted Creole Language Expertise in the Linguistics Classroom Danielle Burgess; Danielle Burgess Independent Researcher danielle burgess recently completed her Ph.D. in linguistics at the University of Michigan, experimentally investigating mechanisms that may play a role in language change across various linguistic contexts, including those that give rise to pidgins a…
The Multi Project
Research Article| May 01 2024 The MULTI Project: Resources for Enhancing Multifaceted Creole Language Expertise in the Linguistics Classroom Danielle Burgess; Danielle Burgess Independent Researcher danielle burgess recently completed her Ph.D. in linguistics at the University of Michigan, experimentally investigating mechanisms that may play a role in language change across various linguistic contexts, including those that give rise to pidgins a…
Pragmatic Markers in Kwéyòl Donmnik, French, & English
Pragmatic markers (PMs) are multifunctional elements that allow language users to organize and coordinate discourse and to express their attitudes and cognitive states. This study compares the discourse-pragmatic functions and distributional features of four PMs in Kwéyòl Donmnik (konsa ‘so’, èben ‘well’, papa/Bondyé ‘papa/God’, la ‘there’) with those of their etyma in French, Kwéyòl’s lexifier ((ou) comme ça, (eh) ben, bon Dieu, là), and with th…
Metalinguistic knowledge of pragmatic markers in Kwéyòl Donmnik and English
Through interviews with bilingual users of Kwéyòl Donmnik (Dominica Creole), an understudied and endangered French lexifier Creole, and a questionnaire for users of English, a colonial language that has been in intense contact with Kwéyòl for over 200 years, this study investigates the metalinguistic knowledge members of each language community have about a selection of pragmatic markers that are cross-linguistically similar: Kwéyòl konsa 'so', è…
The Multi Project
Research Article| May 01 2024 The MULTI Project: Resources for Enhancing Multifaceted Creole Language Expertise in the Linguistics Classroom Danielle Burgess; Danielle Burgess Independent Researcher danielle burgess recently completed her Ph.D. in linguistics at the University of Michigan, experimentally investigating mechanisms that may play a role in language change across various linguistic contexts, including those that give rise to pidgins a…
Noun phrases in Kwéyòl Donmnik
Though Creole nominal systems have been intensely researched, in-context, corpus-based examinations are uncommon, and there are Creole languages whose noun phrases remain understudied. I use a corpus of conversational data and a pattern-building task designed to elicit demonstrative and definite noun phrases, exophoric reference, and co-speech pointing gestures to explore the noun phrase in Kwéyòl Donmnik, an endangered, understudied French lexif…
Linguistics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Creole language (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (2 works) · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Physics (2 works) · Applied linguistics (1 works)