David Decamp
Biographic Data
| ID | 695606 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Decamp |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Decamp |
| SIGNATURE | DECAMP D |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Introduction
1. introduction in 2012, a group of Western U.S. sociolinguists came together for an informal meeting at Stanford University to discuss current research on Western U.S. English dialects. The initiative was an attempt to find ways to align our research interests and encourage more work on the vastly understudied English dialects of this American region. As a result of this meeting, several participants began discussing how to synthesize our work o…
A Bibliography of Pidgin and Creole Languages
A Bibliography of Pidgin and Creole Languages
Hypercorrection and rule generalization
Hypercorrection is always a function of rule generalization, though the converse does not hold. It is therefore a sociolinguistic term, not definable in purely linguistic terms. What is generalized is not necessarily the original rule of the grammar. It may be an added rule symmetrical to it. These symmetrical rules are not necessarily 'Last rules', for their output may undergo further non-hypercorrect rules. (Hypercorrection, sociolinguistics, p…
Implicational Scales and Sociolinguistic Linearity
The Current Discrepancy between Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
Until about a decade ago, theoretical and applied linguistics developed side by side, to their mutual benefit. Though relatively few language teachers were linguists, most linguists were also language teachers, and they set out with missionary zeal to prove that linguistics had a place in the language classroom. Applied linguistics has a long respectable history. It did not suddenly burst into existence on Pearl Harbor Day. Henry Sweet's The Prac…
The Field of Creole Language Studies
A decade ago, the study of pidgin and creole languages was highly compartmentalized. Very few linguists dealt with both pidgins and creoles. Few students of creole English were aware of current studies in other widely separated geographical areas, even of studies of the same language (e.g., Chinese pidgin English, Hawaiian English, Jamaican creole, and West African Krio). This compartmentalization is now rapidly breaking down. Linguists now view …
African Day-Names in Jamaica
A system of day-names, indicating the sex and the day of the week on which a child was born, was carried from Africa to Jamaica in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. As personal names, they are now obsolete and almost extinct. All fourteen, however, survive as pejorative common nouns, retaining certain syntactic features (e.g. gender), but losing the purely semantic week-day feature. The series of historical changes, conditioned both by so…
Names for an Albino among Jamaican Negroes
EARLIEST INSTANCE of the word albino given in the Oxford English Dictionary is from 1777; the word is said to be used by the Portuguese. An earlier instance, however, may be found in Edward Long's History oj Jamaica: "The offspring of two Negroe-parents, if born with a white or light-coloured reticulurn, is called an Albinoe. 1
The Training of English Teachers in the Far East
Jamaica Talk
Jamaican Creole
Cart Names in Jamaica
SITORS TO KINGSTON always notice and usually photograph the many pushcarts which are used for vending and for transporting goods. These brightly-painted carts appear on postcards and Tourist Board leaflets and are as distinctive a part of the city's local color as are the cable cars in San Francisco. To the tourists the carts are merely colorful items to delight their eyes and their cameras. To most residents of Kingston, they are functional part…
A Pictorial Linguistic Interview Manual
Smokejumping Words
The Genesis of the Old English Dialects
The Old English dialects have traditionally been viewed as mere extensions of the dialects of the continental Germanic tribes before their migration to Britain. Following Bede's famous division of the fifth-century invaders into Jutes, Angles, and Saxons, writers have postulated three corresponding dialects: Kentish, Anglian, and Saxon. In this paper I shall develop the hypothesis that the origins of the English dialects lie not in pre-migration …
A Bibliography of Pidgin and Creole Languages
Hypercorrection and rule generalization
Hypercorrection is always a function of rule generalization, though the converse does not hold. It is therefore a sociolinguistic term, not definable in purely linguistic terms. What is generalized is not necessarily the original rule of the grammar. It may be an added rule symmetrical to it. These symmetrical rules are not necessarily 'Last rules', for their output may undergo further non-hypercorrect rules. (Hypercorrection, sociolinguistics, p…
African Day-Names in Jamaica
A system of day-names, indicating the sex and the day of the week on which a child was born, was carried from Africa to Jamaica in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. As personal names, they are now obsolete and almost extinct. All fourteen, however, survive as pejorative common nouns, retaining certain syntactic features (e.g. gender), but losing the purely semantic week-day feature. The series of historical changes, conditioned both by so…
Implicational Scales and Sociolinguistic Linearity
The Current Discrepancy between Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
Until about a decade ago, theoretical and applied linguistics developed side by side, to their mutual benefit. Though relatively few language teachers were linguists, most linguists were also language teachers, and they set out with missionary zeal to prove that linguistics had a place in the language classroom. Applied linguistics has a long respectable history. It did not suddenly burst into existence on Pearl Harbor Day. Henry Sweet's The Prac…
The Field of Creole Language Studies
A decade ago, the study of pidgin and creole languages was highly compartmentalized. Very few linguists dealt with both pidgins and creoles. Few students of creole English were aware of current studies in other widely separated geographical areas, even of studies of the same language (e.g., Chinese pidgin English, Hawaiian English, Jamaican creole, and West African Krio). This compartmentalization is now rapidly breaking down. Linguists now view …
Jamaica Talk
Jamaican Creole
A Pictorial Linguistic Interview Manual
The Genesis of the Old English Dialects
The Old English dialects have traditionally been viewed as mere extensions of the dialects of the continental Germanic tribes before their migration to Britain. Following Bede's famous division of the fifth-century invaders into Jutes, Angles, and Saxons, writers have postulated three corresponding dialects: Kentish, Anglian, and Saxon. In this paper I shall develop the hypothesis that the origins of the English dialects lie not in pre-migration …
Smokejumping Words
The Genesis of the Old English Dialects
The Old English dialects have traditionally been viewed as mere extensions of the dialects of the continental Germanic tribes before their migration to Britain. Following Bede's famous division of the fifth-century invaders into Jutes, Angles, and Saxons, writers have postulated three corresponding dialects: Kentish, Anglian, and Saxon. In this paper I shall develop the hypothesis that the origins of the English dialects lie not in pre-migration …
A Pictorial Linguistic Interview Manual
Cart Names in Jamaica
SITORS TO KINGSTON always notice and usually photograph the many pushcarts which are used for vending and for transporting goods. These brightly-painted carts appear on postcards and Tourist Board leaflets and are as distinctive a part of the city's local color as are the cable cars in San Francisco. To the tourists the carts are merely colorful items to delight their eyes and their cameras. To most residents of Kingston, they are functional part…
Jamaica Talk
Jamaican Creole
The Training of English Teachers in the Far East
Names for an Albino among Jamaican Negroes
EARLIEST INSTANCE of the word albino given in the Oxford English Dictionary is from 1777; the word is said to be used by the Portuguese. An earlier instance, however, may be found in Edward Long's History oj Jamaica: "The offspring of two Negroe-parents, if born with a white or light-coloured reticulurn, is called an Albinoe. 1
African Day-Names in Jamaica
A system of day-names, indicating the sex and the day of the week on which a child was born, was carried from Africa to Jamaica in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. As personal names, they are now obsolete and almost extinct. All fourteen, however, survive as pejorative common nouns, retaining certain syntactic features (e.g. gender), but losing the purely semantic week-day feature. The series of historical changes, conditioned both by so…
The Current Discrepancy between Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
Until about a decade ago, theoretical and applied linguistics developed side by side, to their mutual benefit. Though relatively few language teachers were linguists, most linguists were also language teachers, and they set out with missionary zeal to prove that linguistics had a place in the language classroom. Applied linguistics has a long respectable history. It did not suddenly burst into existence on Pearl Harbor Day. Henry Sweet's The Prac…
The Field of Creole Language Studies
A decade ago, the study of pidgin and creole languages was highly compartmentalized. Very few linguists dealt with both pidgins and creoles. Few students of creole English were aware of current studies in other widely separated geographical areas, even of studies of the same language (e.g., Chinese pidgin English, Hawaiian English, Jamaican creole, and West African Krio). This compartmentalization is now rapidly breaking down. Linguists now view …
Implicational Scales and Sociolinguistic Linearity
Hypercorrection and rule generalization
Hypercorrection is always a function of rule generalization, though the converse does not hold. It is therefore a sociolinguistic term, not definable in purely linguistic terms. What is generalized is not necessarily the original rule of the grammar. It may be an added rule symmetrical to it. These symmetrical rules are not necessarily 'Last rules', for their output may undergo further non-hypercorrect rules. (Hypercorrection, sociolinguistics, p…
A Bibliography of Pidgin and Creole Languages
A Bibliography of Pidgin and Creole Languages
Introduction
1. introduction in 2012, a group of Western U.S. sociolinguists came together for an informal meeting at Stanford University to discuss current research on Western U.S. English dialects. The initiative was an attempt to find ways to align our research interests and encourage more work on the vastly understudied English dialects of this American region. As a result of this meeting, several participants began discussing how to synthesize our work o…
Linguistics (14 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · History (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (4 works) · Creole language (4 works) · Geography (3 works) · History (3 works)