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  1. Population records reveal expanded habitat preference for the endemic, predaceous Jamaican fungus gnat Neoditomyia farri (Diptera, Keroplatidae)

    Article • Journal of Insect Science, November 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  2. Reproductive populations of the Critically Endangered bat Phyllonycteris aphylla at two new locations in Jamaica

    Article • Oryx, January 2024, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  3. A critique of recent statistical approaches to creole typology.

    Article • October 2020, John Benjamins

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  4. The state-of-the-art in the study of pidgin and creole languages.

    Article • Annual Review of Linguistics, January 2018, Annual Reviews

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  5. The sociohistorical matrix of creolization and the role children played in this process

    Article • July 2017, John Benjamins

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  6. Nineteenth-Century Creolist Work and Its Reflections on Language and Community

    Article • Historiographia Linguistica, June 2016, John Benjamins

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  7. Arbitrariness and iconicity in total reduplication

    Article • Studies in Language, December 2015, John Benjamins

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  8. Dutch Guiana

    Article • Journal of Language Contact, December 2015, Brill

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  9. Berbice Dutch was formed without full access to its source languages

    Article • WORD Structure, October 2015, Edinburgh University Press

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  10. Chapter 8. A new analysis of the Papiamentu clause structure

    Article • January 2015, John Benjamins

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  11. 46. Dutch Creole in the Caribbean

    Article • November 2013, De Gruyter

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  12. Thomas Stolz, Cornelia Stroh & Aina Urdze, Total reduplication: The areal linguistics of a potential universal

    Article • Linguistic Typology, January 2013, De Gruyter

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  13. The typology of Caribbean Creole reduplication

    Article • January 2013, John Benjamins

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  14. The historical context of creole language emergence in Dutch Guiana

    Article • Revue belge de philologie et d histoire, January 2013, PERSEE Program

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  15. Rejoinder

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, February 2012, John Benjamins

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  16. Pidgins and creoles

    Article • October 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  17. A Tribute to Norval Smith

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, August 2011, John Benjamins

    Pieter Muysken, Dr Tonjes Veenstra, James Essegbey, Rocky Meade, Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  18. Linguistics in the Caribbean

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, August 2011, John Benjamins

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  19. The typology of Caribbean Creole reduplication

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, February 2011, John Benjamins

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  20. Linguistics in the Caribbean

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, February 2011, John Benjamins

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  21. Creole studies and linguistic typology: Part"2

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, August 2010, John Benjamins

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  22. Creole studies and linguistic typology

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, February 2010, John Benjamins

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  23. The demographic context of creolization in early English Jamaica, 1655-1700

    Article • January 2009, John Benjamins

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  24. The invisible hand in creole genesis

    Article • January 2009, John Benjamins

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  25. Introduction

    Article • November 2008, Wiley

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  26. The Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Studies

    Article • November 2008, Wiley

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  27. Review of Nero (2006): Dialects, Englishes, creoles and education

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, September 2008, John Benjamins

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  28. 1. The problem of multiple substrates: The case of Jamaican Creole

    Article • January 2008, John Benjamins

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  29. The prosody-syntax interface and the status of pronouns in Papiamentu

    Article • Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, June 2007, Open Library of the Humanities

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  30. A new analysis of the Papiamentu clause structure

    Article • Probus, January 2007, De Gruyter

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  31. 16. Bare nouns in Berbice Dutch Creole

    Article • January 2007, John Benjamins

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  32. Review of Aceto & Williams (2003): Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean

    Article • Studies in Language, July 2006, John Benjamins

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  33. Book Reviews

    Article • Caribbean Quarterly, March 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  34. The Dutch- speaking Caribbean Die niederländischsprachige Karibik

    Article • January 2006, De Gruyter

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  35. LI transfer and the cut-off point for L2 acquisition processes in Creole formation

    Article • January 2006, John Benjamins

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  36. Studies on Reduplication

    Article • December 2005, De Gruyter

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  37. Review of Baptista (2002): The Syntax of Cape Verdean Creole. The Sotavento Varieties

    Article • Studies in Language, March 2005, John Benjamins

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  38. The Grammatical Function of Papiamentu Tone

    Article • Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, September 2004, Open Library of the Humanities

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  39. Echoes of Africa

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, September 2004, John Benjamins

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  40. INTRODUCTION

    Article • Studies in Second Language Acquisition, June 2003, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  41. The Iconic Interpretations of Reduplication: Issues in the Study of Reduplication in Caribbean Creole Languages

    Article • European Journal of English Studies, April 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  42. 9. Convergence and explanations in creole genesis

    Article • January 2001, John Benjamins

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  43. Review of “The art of remembering: The Lumbalú of Palenque and the genesis of Palenquero, a review of “Chi ma n kongo”: Lengua y rito ancestrales en El Palenque de San Basilio” by Armin Schwegler

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, August 2000, John Benjamins

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  44. Loss in Berbice Dutch Creole negative constructions

    Article • Linguistics, January 2000, De Gruyter

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  45. Creole Genesis and the Acquisition of Grammar. The Case of Haitian Creole, Claire Lefebvre, 1998, collection Cambridge studies in linguistics, n 88, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

    Article • Revue québécoise de linguistique, January 2000, Consortium Erudit

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  46. Review of Munteanu & Joubert (1996): El papiamento, lengua criolla hispánica

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, December 1999, John Benjamins

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  47. Africa - Philip Baker (ed.): From contact to creole and beyond. (Westminster Creolistics Series 1.) 268 pp. London: University of Westminster Press, 1995. £17.

    Article • Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, June 1997, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  48. Berbice Dutch Creole

    Article • December 1996, De Gruyter

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  49. Substrate or Superstrate

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, January 1996, John Benjamins

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  50. Salikoko S. Mufwene (ed.): Africanisms in Afro-American language varieties. 512pp. Athens, Ohio and London: University of Georgia Press, 1993. $40.

    Article • Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, October 1995, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  51. A Grammar of Berbice Dutch Creole

    Article • December 1994, De Gruyter

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  52. 17. Papiamento

    Article • January 1994, John Benjamins

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  53. Berbrice Dutch

    Article • January 1994, John Benjamins

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  54. 19. Berbice Dutch

    Article • January 1994, John Benjamins

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  55. 9. Theories focusing on the non-European input

    Article • January 1994, John Benjamins

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  56. Review of Hagège (1990): The dialogic species: A linguistic contribution to the social sciences

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, January 1993, John Benjamins

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  57. Book Reviews

    Article • New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, January 1993, Brill

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  58. From OV to VO linguistic negotiation in the development of Berbice Dutch creole

    Article • Lingua, December 1992, Elsevier

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  59. Cliticization of pronouns in Berbice Dutch and Eastern Ijo

    Article • January 1992, John Benjamins

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  60. Review of Arends (1989): Syntactic developments in Sranan: Creolization as a gradual process

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, January 1991, John Benjamins

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  61. Complementizer PA, the Finiteness of its Complements and Some Remarks on Empty Categories in Papiamento

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, January 1990, John Benjamins

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg

  62. Review of Smith (1987): The genesis of the creole languages of Surinam

    Article • Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, January 1989, John Benjamins

    Professor Silvia Kouwenberg