Michael Aceto
Department of English
2201 Bate Building
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC 27858-4353
252-328-6644
E-mail: acetom@ecu.edu
Teaching Experience
2014-present. Professor of Linguistics. Department of English. East Carolina University.
2006-2014. Associate Professor of Linguistics. Department of English. East Carolina University.
2007-2012. Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology. East Carolina University.
2000-2006. Assistant Professor of Linguistics. Department of English. East Carolina University. Responsible for the curriculum and instruction of General Linguistics, History of English, English Syntax & Grammar, English Phonology & Morphology, Creole Languages, Language in the USA, and Sociolinguistics.
1999-2000. Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics. Department of English. Old Dominion University. Responsible for the curriculum and instruction of General linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Dialects of American English, and Creole Languages.
1999-2000. Associate Professor of Linguistics. Department of English. The University of Puerto Rico.
1996-1999. Assistant Professor of Linguistics. Department of English. The University of Puerto Rico. Responsible for the curriculum and instruction of Pidgin and Creole languages, History of English, English dialectology, Sociolinguistics, Phonetics and phonemics of English, Research methods in linguistics, and General linguistics.
Books
2003. Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean, edited by Michael Aceto and Jeffrey P. Williams. As part of the series Varieties of English around the World. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=VEAW%20G30
Articles & Book Chapters
In press, 2013. Patterns of Lexical Borrowing in pre-20th century North American English Varieties. In Festschrift for Ian Hancock, ed. by Thomas Acton. Hertfordshire, UK: University of Hertfordshire Press.
In press, 2013. St. Eustatius English. In The Lesser-Known Varieties of English, Vol. 2. edited by D. Schreier, P. Trudgill, E. W. Schneider, and J. P. Williams. As part of the series Studies in English Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2011. Les cre’oles anglais dans le monde occidental. In Dictionnaire des langues, ed. by Emilio Bonvini, Joelle Busuttil, and Alain Peyraube, 884-892. Presses Universitaires de France.
2010. Dominican Kokoy. In The Lesser-Known Varieties of English (An introduction), edited by D. Schreier, P. Trudgill, E. W. Schneider, and J. P. Williams, 171-194. As part of the series Studies in English Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521710169
2007. Caribbean Englishes. In The Handbook of World Englishes, ed. by Braj. B. Kachru, Yamuna Kachru, & Cecil L. Nelson, 203-222. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.
2007. Statian Creole English: an English-derived language emerges in the Dutch Antilles. World Englishes 25: 411-435.
2007. Wrestling with dichotomies in creole studies: Towards a more complete view of language emergence. In Studies in contact linguistics: Essays in honor of Glenn G. Gilbert, ed. by Linda L. Thornburg & Janet M. Fuller, 293-309. New York: Peter Lang.
2005. The borrowing and innovation of food terms in the Anglophone Caribbean. Sargasso 2004-05 I: 77-96.
2004. Eastern Caribbean English-derived language varieties: Phonology. In A Handbook of Varieties of English: Phonology (Volume 1), ed. by E. Schneider, K. Burridge , B. Kortmann, , R. Mesthrie, & C. Upton, 481-500. Berlin/New York: Mouton.
2004. Eastern Caribbean English-derived language varieties: Syntax. In A Handbook of Varieties of English: Morphology & Syntax (Volume 2), ed. by B. Kortmann, K. Burridge, R. Mesthrie, E. Schneider, & C. Upton, 439-453. Berlin/New York: Mouton.
2003. What are creole languages? An alternative approach to the Anglophone Atlantic World with special emphasis on Barbudan Creole English. In Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean ed. by M. Aceto & J. P. Williams, 121-140. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
2003. Introduction (Michael Aceto & Jeffrey P. Williams). In Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean ed. by M. Aceto & J. P. Williams, xiii-xx. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
2002. Barbudan Creole English: Its history and some grammatical features. English World-Wide 23: 223-250.
2002. Ethnic personal names and multiple identities in Anglophone Caribbean speech communities in Latin America. Language in Society 31: 577-608.
2002. Going back to the beginning: Describing the (nearly) undocumented Anglophone Creoles of the Caribbean. In Pidgin and Creole linguistics in the 21st century, ed. by G. G. Gilbert, 93-120. New York: Peter Lang.
2001. The linguistic matrix of Panama with special focus on Anglophone creoles. In The English Creole of Panama. Publication No. 2 from the Quaderni del Centro Interdipartimentale di Studi sull’America Indigena/CISAI dell’Università di Sienna, 7-21. Siena: C.I.S.A.I.
1999. Looking beyond decreolization as an explanatory model of language change in Creole-speaking communities. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 14: 93-119.
1999. The Gold Coast contribution to the Atlantic English creoles. In Spreading the Word: The issue of diffusion among the Atlantic creoles, ed. by M. Huber & M. Parkvall, 69-80. Westminster Creolistics Series 6. London: University of Westminster Press.
1998. A new Creole future tense marker emerges in the Panamanian West Indies. American Speech 73: 29-43.
1997. Saramaccan Creole origins: Portuguese-derived lexical correspondences and the relexification hypothesis. In The structure and status of pidgins and creoles, ed. by A. K. Spears & D. Winford, 219-39. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
1996. Early Saramaccan syllable structure: An analysis of complex onsets from Schumann's 1778 manuscript. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 11: 23-44.
1996. Syntactic innovation in a Caribbean Creole: The Bastimentos variety of Panamanian Creole English. English World-Wide 17: 43-61.
1996. Epenthesis in Saramaccan: A non-linear approach with implications for the Atlantic creoles. Amsterdam Creole Studies XII (Publicatie Nummer 68): 19-32.
1995. Variation in a secret Creole language of Panama. Language in Society 24: 537-60.
Book Reviews
2014. Lars Hinrichs and Joseph T. Farquharson, eds. Variation in the Caribbean. From creole continua to individual agency (Creole Language Library, Volume 37) (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2011). To appear in Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 2014, 29: 199-205.
2010. Salikoko Mufwene. Language Evolution: Contact, competition and change (London, New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2008). Language in Society 39: 276-281).
2008. Parth Bhatt and Ingo Plag, eds. The structure of creole words: Segmental syllabic and morphological aspects (Tubingen: Maz Niemeyer Verlag, 2006). Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 23: 161-164.
2006. Angela Bartens. A contrastive grammar, Islander – Caribbean standard English – Spanish (Helsinki: The Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, 2003). Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 21: 389-391.
2004. Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh and Edgar W. Schneider, eds. Degrees of restructuring in creole languages (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2000). English World-Wide 25: 137-142.
2002. Ronald F. Kephart. "Broken English": The Creole language of Carriacou (New York: Peter Lang, 2000). Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 17: 279-283.
2001. Michel DeGraff (ed.), Language creation and language change. Creolization, diachrony, and development (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1999). Language 77: 376-378.
2001. John McWhorter. The word on the street. Fact and fable about American English (New York: Plenum Trade, 1998). Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 16: 166-174.
1999. Ofelia García & Joshua A. Fishman (eds.), The multilingual apple: Languages in New York City (Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997). Language 75: 586-88.
1999. Johan Nordlander, Towards a semantics of linguistic time: Exploring some basic time concepts with special reference to English and Krio (Uppsala, Sweden: Swedish Science Press, 1997). Language 75: 181.
1998. Sarah G. Thomason (ed.), Contact languages: A wider perspective. (Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1997). The Carrier Pidgin 26: 22-26.
1998. Cynthia Bernstein, Thomas Nunnally & Robin Sabino (eds.), Language variety in the South revisited (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama, 1997). English World-Wide 19: 292-302.
1998. David Crystal. English as a global language (Cambridge University Press, 1997). Language 74: 864.
1998. Richard Allsopp. Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage (Oxford University Press, 1996). Language 74: 412-13.
1997. Maureen Warner-Lewis, Yoruba songs of Trinidad (London: Karnak House, 1994) and Trinidad Yoruba: From mother tongue to memory (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama, 1996). New West Indian Guide 71: 327-32).
1997. Yaron Matras (ed.), Romani in contact: The history, structure and sociology of a language (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1995). Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 12: 366-71.
1997. John W. M. Verhaar, Toward a reference grammar of Tok Pisin. An experiment in corpus linguistics (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i, 1995). Language 73: 656.
1997. Michael Montgomery (ed.), The crucible of Carolina: Essays in the development of Gullah language and culture (Athens: University of Georgia, 1994). Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 12: 169-75.
1996. A. Wayne Glowka & Donald M. Lance (eds.), Language variation in North American English, Research and Teaching (New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1993). American Speech 71: 210-14.
1996. Mark Sebba, London Jamaican: Language systems in interaction (London/New York: Longman, 1993). Language 72: 426-27.
1995. Peter Bakker & Maarten Mous (eds.), Mixed languages: 15 case studies in language intertwining (Amsterdam: Uitgave IFOTT, 1994). Language 71: 842-43.
1995. J. L. Dillard, A history of American English (London/New York: Longman Linguistics Library, 1992). Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 10: 203-08.
1995. Francis Byrne & Donald Winford (eds.), Focus and grammatical relations in Creole languages (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1993). Language 71: 403-04.
1995. Joan H. Hall, Nick Doan & Dick Ringler (eds.), Old English and new: Studies in language and linguistics in honor of Frederic G. Cassidy (New York/London: Garland, 1992). American Speech 70: 211-15.
1994. Salikoko Mufwene (ed.), Africanisms in Afro-American language varieties (Athens: University of Georgia, 1993). American Speech 69: 411-16.
1994. Donald Winford, Predication in Caribbean English Creoles (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1993). Language 70: 836-40.
1994. Richard Price & Sally Price, Two evenings in Saramaka (University of Chicago, 1992). New West Indian Guide 68: 161-64.
1994. Lise Winer, Trinidad and Tobago (in the Varieties of English Around the World series) (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1993). Language 70: 406-7.
1994. Robert K. Herbert (ed.), Language and society in Africa: The theory and practice of sociolinguistics (Witwatersrand University, 1992). Language 70: 389-90.
1993. John Holm & Francis Byrne (eds.), Atlantic meets Pacific: A global view of pidginization and creolization (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1993). Language 69: 846-47.
Invited Speaker
2013. Fieldwork in the Caribbean and received notions in creole studies. North Carolina State University, Program in Linguistics. Feb. 15.
2010. Creole languages and the enduring legacy of power in the Atlantic World. Atlantic World Literacies: Before and After Contact, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. October 7-9.
2004. The triangulation of language contact in the Anglophone Atlantic region: West Africa, the West Indies, and North America. LAVIS III (Language Variety in the South): Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. April 2004.
2001. The linguistic matrix of Panama. Centro Interdipartimentale di Studi sull’America Indigena/CISAI dell’Università di Sienna. University of Sienna, Italy. 29 March.
1999. The importance of field work for theoretical models in sociolinguistics and Creole studies. Department of Linguistics. Rice University, Houston, Texas. 11 February.
1998. The influence of Akan languages on the Virgin Islands' English Creole and the creoles in the Caribbean. The Student Activities Office, the Social Science Division and SGA's Black History Committee in conjunction with the St. Croix Landmark Society. The University of the Virgin Islands, St. Croix. 18 February.
1997. English-derived creoles in Central America: Language, identity, and implications for regional pedagogy. The Third Annual Creole Language Workshop. Empowering creoles: Developing pedagogical materials in and on creoles. Presented by the Linguistics Program and African-New World Studies Program. Florida International University. Miami. 20 March.
1997. English creoles and Spanish in contact: The Creole-speaking communities of Central America. Hablar, nombrar, pertenecer: el juego entre el idioma y la identidad en la(s) cultura(s) caribena(s)/Speaking, naming, belonging: the interplay of language and identity in Caribbean Culture(s) (Sponsored by Caribbean 2000: Regional and/or national definitions, identities and cultures; Rockefeller Research Fellowships in the Humanities). The University of Puerto Rico. San Juan. 13 February.
1995. The genesis of Creole languages and cultural innovation. American Folklore Society. Lafayette, Louisiana. 13 October. Invited panel participant.
1994. La variacion en el inglès criollo de Bastimentos. Instituto Nacional de Cultura, Direccion Nacional del Patrimonio Historico. Panama City, Panama. 13 June.
Conference Papers
2002. Statian Creole English: A history with grammatical features. Linguistic Society of America & Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics. San Francisco. 4 January.
2001. Dual identities and names in Anglophone Afro-Caribbean Communities in Latin America. Linguistic Society of America & Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics. Washington, DC. 5 January
2000. Barbudan Creole English: A history with grammatical features. Linguistic Society of America & Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics. Chicago. 8 January.
1998. A provisional examination of Barbudan Creole English. Society for Caribbean Linguistics. St. Lucia. 20 August.
1998. Going back to the beginning: Describing the (nearly) undocumented Creole languages of the Caribbean. Linguistic Society of America & Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics. NYC. 9 January.
1996. A new future tense marker emerges in the Panamanian West Indies. Linguistic Society of America & Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics. San Diego. 6 January.
1995. Structural continuities and innovations in Panamanian Creole English. American Anthropological Association. Washington, D.C. 15 November.
1995. Language variation and change in progress: An examination of past and future tense markers in Panamanian Creole English. LASSO XXIV (24th annual meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest). Las Cruces, New Mexico. 7 October.
1995. Syntactic variation in Panamanian Creole English: Internal or external change? Linguistic Society of America & Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics. New Orleans. 7 January.
1994. Variation in a secret Creole language of Panama. NWAV 23 (23rd Annual Conference on New Ways of Analyzing Variation). Stanford University, California. 21 October.
1994. Syllable structure and epenthesis in Saramaccan: Revising the account of the CV Creole syllable. Linguistic Society of America & Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics. Boston. 8 January.
1993. Searching for Saramaccan Creole origins: an examination of Portuguese-derived lexical correspondences. Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics. Amsterdam. 11 June.
1993. On the possibility of an English-derived Gold Coast pidgin in use during the slave trade. SALSA (Symposium about Language and Society-Austin) meeting. Austin, Texas. 17 April.
1993. The Kromanti link: A lexical examination of Twi/Ashanti data in Jamaican and Suriname Creoles. Linguistic Society of America & Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics. Los Angeles. 9 January.
Professional Experience
1998-present. Member of the Editorial Board for English World-Wide.
1997-present. Member of the Editorial Advisory Committee for Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages.
Peer reviewer for manuscript submissions to Language, English World-Wide, Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, American Anthropologist.
Peer reviewer for grants submitted to the National Science Foundation.
Honors, Grants, Awards
2002. Recipient of College of Arts & Sciences Research Award. East Carolina University. One semester course release for writing and research.
1998-1999. Recipient of internal grant from the University of Puerto Rico for work on the Eastern Caribbean. Amount: $3,500.
1995-1996. Recipient of a Liberal Arts Dissertation Fellowship. Most competitive fellowship awarded in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. Amount: $12,000.
1988-1993. Teaching Scholarship from The Ellen Harcourt Foundation. San Diego State University, California. Awarded for promise and excellence in teaching. Amount: $1,500 per year.
Education
Ph.D. 1996. Department of Linguistics, The University of Texas at Austin. Dissertation: Variation in a variety of Panamanian Creole English.
M.A. 1993. Department of Linguistics, The University of Texas at Austin.
Secondary School Teaching Credential (English & French). 1989. California. Completed at San Diego State University.
B.A. (English & French). 1984. University of Connecticut, Storrs.
References
Available upon request.
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