Expertise

Her research focuses on linguistic contact, variation and change.

Communities
English
Degrees
PhD, University of Pennsylvania, Linguistics, 1990
MA, College (now University) of the Virgin Islands, Early Childhood Education, 1977
AB, Adelphi University, Humanities, 1969
Keywords
language or literature linguistics or philology
Languages
Creole, Dutch, Creole, Dutch, Danish, Dutch, English, French, Spanish
Honors

Distinguished Diversity Researcher (Category II: Established History and Achievement in Diversity Research), Research Institute for the Study of Diversity (Auburn University), 2008

Associations
Society for Caribbean Linguistics
South Eastern Conference on Linguistics