Michel Degraff
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 745349 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Michel Degraff |
| PRENOMES | Michel |
| SOBRENOME | Degraff |
| ASSINATURA | DEGRAFF M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0270-2121 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 116 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1996 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Liberatory Linguistics in a Time of Fascism
This essay examines the Palestine exception to academic freedom and free speech through the lenses of language, linguistics, history, and knowledge production in a time of rising fascism. The author recounts his personal experiences as a Haitian linguist at MIT who faced administrative, legal, and governmental retaliation in the context of his scholarship on language and linguistics for decolonization and liberation in Haiti, Palestine, and Israe…
Writing revolutions
Language Policy in Haitian Education
Language-in-education policy in Haiti has historically favored French as the language of instruction from the earliest levels of primary school. This has contributed to preventing most children from the monolingual Kreyòl-speaking majority from receiving a quality education, succeeding in school, and accessing the means for socioeconomic progress. Though this has been recognized as a problem since the nation's independence from France in 1804, th…
Toward racial justice in linguistics
In their target article, Anne Charity Hudley, Christine Mallinson, and Mary Bucholtz (2020) have challenged linguists to constructively engage with race and racism. by excluding scholars and students of color’. Here I amplify Charity Hudley et al.'s challenges through some of my own critiques of Creole studies. These critiques serve to further analyze institutional whiteness as, in their terms, ‘a structuring force in academia, informing the deve…
An n bati lekòl tèt an wo
Pifò engredyan nan atik sa a se pou n rezime yon lòt atik ki te pibliye ane pase (an 2018) sou rezilta Inisyativ MIT-Ayiti a nan domenn edikasyon. Lòt atik sa a te parèt nan youn nan pi gwo jounal lengwistik nan lemonn—yon jounal syantifik ki rele Language ("Kreyòl, Pedagogy, and Technology for Opening Up Quality Education in Haiti," Language 94.2 [2018]). Se Sosyete Lengwistik oz Etazini ("Linguistics Society of America"), ki se pi gwo asosyasyo…
Flore Zéphir nan entèvyou ak Michel DeGraff ansanm ak Jacques Pierre
Flore Zéphir nan entèvyou ak Michel DeGraff. Pami pwen prensipal ke n te diskite nan konvèzasyon sa a, gen yon seri kesyon ki te enterese Flore pandan tout lavi pwofesyonèl li kòm lengwis: kesyon sou wòl lang ak idantite nan devlòpman ak byennèt nasyon nouȔni nan nivo kolektif popilasyon an, ni nan lavi chak grenn konpatriyòt nou yo, kit y ap viv nan peyi a, kit y ap viv lòt bò dlo. Flore t ap mennen menm konba ak gran kolèg mwen Pwof. Yves Dejea…
Kreyòl, pedagogy, and technology for opening up quality education in Haiti
We argue that local languages, coupled with modern pedagogy and technology, are necessary, though not sufficient, ingredients for universal access to quality education. Our case study is Haiti, where French is the primary language of school instruction, though it is spoken by only a small percentage of the population, while Haitian Creole (aka ‘Kreyòl’), the language fluently spoken by all Haitians in Haiti, is mostly excluded from the formal dis…
Error correction and social transformation in Creole studies and among Creole speakers
Mark Lewis asks that socially engaged linguists go beyond Labov's (1982)principle of error correction(PEC) so that we can enlistcritical race theory(CRT) to address 'more difficult and fundamental questions of the sociohistorical conditions of a representation of language, challenging its premises and showing its connections to racial, economic, or other forms of violence' (Lewis, this issue, p. 341). The ultimate goal is the actualtransformation…
Lang matènèl, pedagoji entèraktif, lojisyèl edikatif nan Inisyativ MIT-Ayiti
ENTWODIKSYON : « MEN ANPIL, CHAY PA LOU » . . . « TWA WOCH DIFE » POU INOVASYON NAN EDIKASYONInisyativ MIT-Ayiti se yon pwoje « men anpil, chay pa lou »' kote edikate nan MIT ak ann Ayiti mete tet yo ansanm pou pataje epi pwofonde espetiz nan plizye domen : Syans, Teknoloji, Enjeniri ak Matematik (« S.T.En.M. ») ; pedagoji enteraktif ki sevi ak teknoloji edikatif ansanm ak lot materyel an kreyol ; Resous Edikatif Lib (sa yo rele « Open Education …
Language Acquisition in Creolization and, Thus, Language Change
This essay prescribes some broad ‘Cartesian‐Uniformitarian’ boundary conditions for linguistic hypotheses about Creole formation. These conditions make constructive connections between Creole studies, historical linguistics and language‐acquisition research. Here ‘Cartesian’ has a mentalist sense, as in ): I consider the formation of so‐called ‘Creole’ languages to be ultimately reducible to the creation, in certain sociohistorical contexts, of c…
Linguists' most dangerous myth
"Creole Exceptionalism" is defined as a set of beliefs, widespread among both linguists and nonlinguists, that Creole languages form an exceptional class on phylogenetic and/or typological grounds. It also has nonlinguistic (e.g., sociological) implications, such as the claim that Creole languages are a "handicap" for their speakers, which has undermined the role that Creoles should play in the education and socioeconomic development of monolingu…
Against Creole Exceptionalism (Redux)
The primary goal of my Discussion Note ‘Against Creole exceptionalism’ (Language 79.2.391-410, hereafter ACE) was to demystify a variety of past and present beliefs—widespread in and outside academia—according to which Creole languages constitute an exceptional class on phylogenetic and/or typological grounds
Against Creole Exceptionalism
Against Creole exceptionalism* Michel DeGraff 1. A postcolonial agenda for creolists 1.1. The motivation Ferdinand de Saussure (1916 [1986:7]) warned us that 'no other subject [outside of language] has fostered more absurd notions, more prejudices, more illusions and more fantasies . . . [I]t is the primary task of the linguist to denounce them, and to eradicate them as completely as possible'. But, what if 'prejudices', 'illusions', and 'fantasi…
À propos de la syntaxe des pronoms objets en créole haïtien
Striking differences between Haitian Creole (HC) and its lexifier language, French (FR), concern (inter alia) the Case-related morphology and the distribution of Object pronouns. The goal of the paper is to relate HC-vs-FR differences in object-pronoun morphosyntax to other morphosyntactic distinctions between the two languages, i.e. verb morphosyntax and inflectional morphology. As a contribution to the study of the mental processes underlying c…
Empirical Quicksand
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Temps et aspects en créole seychellois
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Against Creole Exceptionalism
Against Creole exceptionalism* Michel DeGraff 1. A postcolonial agenda for creolists 1.1. The motivation Ferdinand de Saussure (1916 [1986:7]) warned us that 'no other subject [outside of language] has fostered more absurd notions, more prejudices, more illusions and more fantasies . . . [I]t is the primary task of the linguist to denounce them, and to eradicate them as completely as possible'. But, what if 'prejudices', 'illusions', and 'fantasi…
Linguists' most dangerous myth
"Creole Exceptionalism" is defined as a set of beliefs, widespread among both linguists and nonlinguists, that Creole languages form an exceptional class on phylogenetic and/or typological grounds. It also has nonlinguistic (e.g., sociological) implications, such as the claim that Creole languages are a "handicap" for their speakers, which has undermined the role that Creoles should play in the education and socioeconomic development of monolingu…
Against Creole Exceptionalism (Redux)
The primary goal of my Discussion Note ‘Against Creole exceptionalism’ (Language 79.2.391-410, hereafter ACE) was to demystify a variety of past and present beliefs—widespread in and outside academia—according to which Creole languages constitute an exceptional class on phylogenetic and/or typological grounds
Toward racial justice in linguistics
In their target article, Anne Charity Hudley, Christine Mallinson, and Mary Bucholtz (2020) have challenged linguists to constructively engage with race and racism. by excluding scholars and students of color’. Here I amplify Charity Hudley et al.'s challenges through some of my own critiques of Creole studies. These critiques serve to further analyze institutional whiteness as, in their terms, ‘a structuring force in academia, informing the deve…
À propos de la syntaxe des pronoms objets en créole haïtien
Striking differences between Haitian Creole (HC) and its lexifier language, French (FR), concern (inter alia) the Case-related morphology and the distribution of Object pronouns. The goal of the paper is to relate HC-vs-FR differences in object-pronoun morphosyntax to other morphosyntactic distinctions between the two languages, i.e. verb morphosyntax and inflectional morphology. As a contribution to the study of the mental processes underlying c…
Language Policy in Haitian Education
Language-in-education policy in Haiti has historically favored French as the language of instruction from the earliest levels of primary school. This has contributed to preventing most children from the monolingual Kreyòl-speaking majority from receiving a quality education, succeeding in school, and accessing the means for socioeconomic progress. Though this has been recognized as a problem since the nation's independence from France in 1804, th…
Error correction and social transformation in Creole studies and among Creole speakers
Mark Lewis asks that socially engaged linguists go beyond Labov's (1982)principle of error correction(PEC) so that we can enlistcritical race theory(CRT) to address 'more difficult and fundamental questions of the sociohistorical conditions of a representation of language, challenging its premises and showing its connections to racial, economic, or other forms of violence' (Lewis, this issue, p. 341). The ultimate goal is the actualtransformation…
Language Acquisition in Creolization and, Thus, Language Change
This essay prescribes some broad ‘Cartesian‐Uniformitarian’ boundary conditions for linguistic hypotheses about Creole formation. These conditions make constructive connections between Creole studies, historical linguistics and language‐acquisition research. Here ‘Cartesian’ has a mentalist sense, as in ): I consider the formation of so‐called ‘Creole’ languages to be ultimately reducible to the creation, in certain sociohistorical contexts, of c…
Kreyòl, pedagogy, and technology for opening up quality education in Haiti
We argue that local languages, coupled with modern pedagogy and technology, are necessary, though not sufficient, ingredients for universal access to quality education. Our case study is Haiti, where French is the primary language of school instruction, though it is spoken by only a small percentage of the population, while Haitian Creole (aka ‘Kreyòl’), the language fluently spoken by all Haitians in Haiti, is mostly excluded from the formal dis…
Lang matènèl, pedagoji entèraktif, lojisyèl edikatif nan Inisyativ MIT-Ayiti
ENTWODIKSYON : « MEN ANPIL, CHAY PA LOU » . . . « TWA WOCH DIFE » POU INOVASYON NAN EDIKASYONInisyativ MIT-Ayiti se yon pwoje « men anpil, chay pa lou »' kote edikate nan MIT ak ann Ayiti mete tet yo ansanm pou pataje epi pwofonde espetiz nan plizye domen : Syans, Teknoloji, Enjeniri ak Matematik (« S.T.En.M. ») ; pedagoji enteraktif ki sevi ak teknoloji edikatif ansanm ak lot materyel an kreyol ; Resous Edikatif Lib (sa yo rele « Open Education …
Temps et aspects en créole seychellois
Preview this article: Temps et aspects en créole seychellois: Valeurs et interférences. By Susanne Michaelis, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/jpcl.11.1.12deg-1.gif
Empirical Quicksand
Preview this article: Empirical Quicksand: Probing Two Recent Articles on Haitian Creole, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/jpcl.14.2.09deg-1.gif
À propos de la syntaxe des pronoms objets en créole haïtien
Striking differences between Haitian Creole (HC) and its lexifier language, French (FR), concern (inter alia) the Case-related morphology and the distribution of Object pronouns. The goal of the paper is to relate HC-vs-FR differences in object-pronoun morphosyntax to other morphosyntactic distinctions between the two languages, i.e. verb morphosyntax and inflectional morphology. As a contribution to the study of the mental processes underlying c…
Against Creole Exceptionalism
Against Creole exceptionalism* Michel DeGraff 1. A postcolonial agenda for creolists 1.1. The motivation Ferdinand de Saussure (1916 [1986:7]) warned us that 'no other subject [outside of language] has fostered more absurd notions, more prejudices, more illusions and more fantasies . . . [I]t is the primary task of the linguist to denounce them, and to eradicate them as completely as possible'. But, what if 'prejudices', 'illusions', and 'fantasi…
Against Creole Exceptionalism (Redux)
The primary goal of my Discussion Note ‘Against Creole exceptionalism’ (Language 79.2.391-410, hereafter ACE) was to demystify a variety of past and present beliefs—widespread in and outside academia—according to which Creole languages constitute an exceptional class on phylogenetic and/or typological grounds
Linguists' most dangerous myth
"Creole Exceptionalism" is defined as a set of beliefs, widespread among both linguists and nonlinguists, that Creole languages form an exceptional class on phylogenetic and/or typological grounds. It also has nonlinguistic (e.g., sociological) implications, such as the claim that Creole languages are a "handicap" for their speakers, which has undermined the role that Creoles should play in the education and socioeconomic development of monolingu…
Language Acquisition in Creolization and, Thus, Language Change
This essay prescribes some broad ‘Cartesian‐Uniformitarian’ boundary conditions for linguistic hypotheses about Creole formation. These conditions make constructive connections between Creole studies, historical linguistics and language‐acquisition research. Here ‘Cartesian’ has a mentalist sense, as in ): I consider the formation of so‐called ‘Creole’ languages to be ultimately reducible to the creation, in certain sociohistorical contexts, of c…
Lang matènèl, pedagoji entèraktif, lojisyèl edikatif nan Inisyativ MIT-Ayiti
ENTWODIKSYON : « MEN ANPIL, CHAY PA LOU » . . . « TWA WOCH DIFE » POU INOVASYON NAN EDIKASYONInisyativ MIT-Ayiti se yon pwoje « men anpil, chay pa lou »' kote edikate nan MIT ak ann Ayiti mete tet yo ansanm pou pataje epi pwofonde espetiz nan plizye domen : Syans, Teknoloji, Enjeniri ak Matematik (« S.T.En.M. ») ; pedagoji enteraktif ki sevi ak teknoloji edikatif ansanm ak lot materyel an kreyol ; Resous Edikatif Lib (sa yo rele « Open Education …
An n bati lekòl tèt an wo
Pifò engredyan nan atik sa a se pou n rezime yon lòt atik ki te pibliye ane pase (an 2018) sou rezilta Inisyativ MIT-Ayiti a nan domenn edikasyon. Lòt atik sa a te parèt nan youn nan pi gwo jounal lengwistik nan lemonn—yon jounal syantifik ki rele Language ("Kreyòl, Pedagogy, and Technology for Opening Up Quality Education in Haiti," Language 94.2 [2018]). Se Sosyete Lengwistik oz Etazini ("Linguistics Society of America"), ki se pi gwo asosyasyo…
Flore Zéphir nan entèvyou ak Michel DeGraff ansanm ak Jacques Pierre
Flore Zéphir nan entèvyou ak Michel DeGraff. Pami pwen prensipal ke n te diskite nan konvèzasyon sa a, gen yon seri kesyon ki te enterese Flore pandan tout lavi pwofesyonèl li kòm lengwis: kesyon sou wòl lang ak idantite nan devlòpman ak byennèt nasyon nouȔni nan nivo kolektif popilasyon an, ni nan lavi chak grenn konpatriyòt nou yo, kit y ap viv nan peyi a, kit y ap viv lòt bò dlo. Flore t ap mennen menm konba ak gran kolèg mwen Pwof. Yves Dejea…
Kreyòl, pedagogy, and technology for opening up quality education in Haiti
We argue that local languages, coupled with modern pedagogy and technology, are necessary, though not sufficient, ingredients for universal access to quality education. Our case study is Haiti, where French is the primary language of school instruction, though it is spoken by only a small percentage of the population, while Haitian Creole (aka ‘Kreyòl’), the language fluently spoken by all Haitians in Haiti, is mostly excluded from the formal dis…
Error correction and social transformation in Creole studies and among Creole speakers
Mark Lewis asks that socially engaged linguists go beyond Labov's (1982)principle of error correction(PEC) so that we can enlistcritical race theory(CRT) to address 'more difficult and fundamental questions of the sociohistorical conditions of a representation of language, challenging its premises and showing its connections to racial, economic, or other forms of violence' (Lewis, this issue, p. 341). The ultimate goal is the actualtransformation…
Toward racial justice in linguistics
In their target article, Anne Charity Hudley, Christine Mallinson, and Mary Bucholtz (2020) have challenged linguists to constructively engage with race and racism. by excluding scholars and students of color’. Here I amplify Charity Hudley et al.'s challenges through some of my own critiques of Creole studies. These critiques serve to further analyze institutional whiteness as, in their terms, ‘a structuring force in academia, informing the deve…
Language Policy in Haitian Education
Language-in-education policy in Haiti has historically favored French as the language of instruction from the earliest levels of primary school. This has contributed to preventing most children from the monolingual Kreyòl-speaking majority from receiving a quality education, succeeding in school, and accessing the means for socioeconomic progress. Though this has been recognized as a problem since the nation's independence from France in 1804, th…
Liberatory Linguistics in a Time of Fascism
This essay examines the Palestine exception to academic freedom and free speech through the lenses of language, linguistics, history, and knowledge production in a time of rising fascism. The author recounts his personal experiences as a Haitian linguist at MIT who faced administrative, legal, and governmental retaliation in the context of his scholarship on language and linguistics for decolonization and liberation in Haiti, Palestine, and Israe…
Writing revolutions
Creole language (8 obras) · Linguistics (8 obras) · Philosophy (8 obras) · Multilingual Education and Policy (7 obras) · Philosophy (6 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · Sociology (5 obras) · Exceptionalism (4 obras) · Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies (4 obras)