Recommended Readings

Introductory Reading - Language and Linguistics
Bauer, Laurie and Peter Trudgill, eds. Language Myths. London: Penguin, 1999.
Matthews, P.H. Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: O.U.P., 2003.
Napoli, Donna Jo and and Vera Lee-Schoenfeld. Language Matters: A Guide to Everyday Questions about Language. 2d. ed. Oxford: O.U.P., 2010.

Further Reading
Aronoff, Mark, and Janie Rees-Miller, eds. The Handbook of Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.
Holm, John. An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles [Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics]. Cambridge: C.U.P., 2000.
Mufwene, Salikoko. The Ecology of Language Evolution [Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact]. Cambridge: C.U.P., 2001.
Pinker, Steven. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language. New York: Perennial Classics, 2000.
Winford, Donald. An Introduction to Contact Linguistics. London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2003.

English and English Creole
Aceto, Michael and Jeffrey P. Williams, eds. Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean [Varieties of English around the World]. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2003.
Alleyne, Mervyn C. Comparative Afro-American: An Historical-Comparative Study of English-based Afro-American Dialects of the New World. Ann Arbor, MI: Karoma, 1980.
McCrum, Robert, William Cran and Robert MacNeil. The Story of English. 3rd Rev. ed. London: Penguin Books, 2002.
Roberts, Peter A. West Indians and their Language . 2d ed. Cambridge: C.U.P., 2007.
Roberts, Peter A. From Oral to Literate Culture: Colonial Experience in the English West Indies . Kingston: UWI Press, 2000.
Solomon, Denis. The Speech of Trinidad: A Reference Grammar. St. Augustine: School of Continuing Studies, U.W.I., 1993.
See UWI Press for more books.

French and French Creole
Ball, Rodney. The French-Speaking World: A Practical Introduction to Sociolinguistic Issues. London: Routledge, 1997.
Chaudenson, Robert. Les Créoles. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1995.
Corne, Chris. From French to Creole: The Development of New Vernaculars in the French Colonial World. London: University of Westminster Press, 1999.
Thomas, John Jacob. The Theory and Practice of Creole Grammar. 1869. Reprint. London and Port-of-Spain: New Beacon Books, 1969.

Spanish and Spanish Creole

Mar-Molinero, Clare. The Spanish-Speaking World: A Practical Introduction to Sociolinguistic Issues. London: Routledge, 1997.
McWhorter, John H. The Missing Spanish Creoles: Recovering the Birth of Plantation Contact. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000.

Reference Material
Allsopp, Jeannette. The Multilingual Caribbean Dictionary of Flora, Fauna and Foods in English, French, French Creole and Spanish. Kingston: Arawak Press, 2003.
Allsopp, Richard. Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, with a French and Spanish Supplement. Oxford: O.U.P., 1996. (Also available in paperback from UWI Press, 2003.)
Breton, R.P. Raymond. 1999. Dictionnaire cara?be-fran?ais. Auxerre, 1665. Reprint. Introduced and annotated by CELIA and GEREC, with CD-ROM by M. Thouvenot. Paris: Editions Karthala with IRD.
Carlin, Eithne B. and Jacques Arends. Atlas of the Languages of Suriname. Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers, 2003.
Cassidy, Frederic Gomes, and Robert B. LePage. Dictionary of Jamaican English. 2d. ed. Kingston: UWI Press, 2003.
Crystal, David. Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. 5th ed. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2003.
Crystal, David. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language. 2d. ed. Cambridge: C.U.P., 2003.
Crystal, David. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. Cambridge: C.U.P., 1997.
Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 17th ed. Dallas, Texas: SIL International, 2013. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com.
Holm, John A., and Alison Watt Shilling. Dictionary of Bahamian English. Cold Spring, N.Y. : Lexik House Publishers, 1982.
Ludwig, Ralph, et al, eds. Dictionnaire créole-français (Guadeloupe) / français-créole (Guadeloupe). Paris: Maisonneuve & Larose, 2002.
Ratzlaff, Betty, ed. English/Papiamentu Dictionary, Papiamentu/Ingles Dikshonario. Kralendijk, Bonaire: TWR Foundation, 1995.
Shapiro, Norma and Jayme Adelson-Goldstein. The Oxford Picture Dictionary: English/Haitian Creole Angle/Kreyol Ayisyen. Oxford: O.U.P., 2000.
Taylor, Douglas MacRae. Languages of the West Indies. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977.
Voightlander, Katie, and Hyatt Moore, eds. The Alphabet Makers: A Presentation from the Museum of the Alphabet. Huntington Beach, CA: Wycliffe Bible Translators, 1990.
Winer, Lise, ed. Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago: On Historical Principles. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010.

Recommended Readings compiled by Jo-Anne S. Ferreira,
Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, UWI, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
(All graphs copyright © J.S. Ferreira)

Thanks to Lise Winer, Keith Laurence, Nicole Roberts, Mervyn Alleyne, Michèle Stewart,
Rocky Meade, and Sonya Moze for comments and contributions.
All other comments and contributions welcome.