University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa University of Leeds University of Guyana University of Cape Coast, Ghana
Derek Bickerton (March 25, 1926 – March 5, 2018) was an English-born linguist and professor at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Based on his work in creole languages in Guyana and Hawaii, he has proposed that the features of creole languages provide powerful insights into the development of language both by individuals and as a feature of the human species. He is the originator and main proponent of the language bioprogram hypothesis according to which the similarity of creoles is due to their being formed from a prior pidgin by children who all share a universal human innate grammar capacity.[1]
Bickerton also wrote several novels. His novels have been featured in the works of the Sun Ra Revival Post Krautrock Archestra, through spoken word and musical themes.
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DerekBickerton (March 25, 1926 – March 5, 2018) was an English-born linguist and professor at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Based on his work in...
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their superstrate and substrate languages. As articulated mostly by DerekBickerton, creolization occurs when the linguistic exposure of children in a...
American linguist Robert Hall in the 1960s. Some linguists, such as DerekBickerton, posit that creoles share more grammatical similarities with each other...
Derek Bickerton (1926–2018), linguist and academic Derek Birley (1926–2002), academic and educator Derek Blake, academic and research scientist Derek Bok...
to search out new food sources found in the drier savannah ecology. DerekBickerton (2009) has designated to this period the move from simple animal communication...
art movement Neo-Geo. Born in Barbados on May 26, 1959, Bickerton was the son of DerekBickerton, a linguist and scholar of Creole and pidgin languages...
discipline of syntax. One school of thought, founded in the works of DerekBickerton, sees syntax as a branch of biology, since it conceives of syntax as...
counterexample to DerekBickerton's theories of creole language formation, showing "no more than a chance resemblance to Bickerton's universal creole features"...
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the universality of language, Pinker—mainly relying on the work of DerekBickerton—notes that children spontaneously invent a consistent grammatical speech...
though even onomatopoeic sounds have a large degree of arbitrariness. DerekBickerton has posited that iconic signs, both verbal and gestural, were crucial...
Occupation. Univ of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-6811-9. DerekBickerton. The Murders of Boysie Singh: Robber, Arsonist, Pirate, Mass-Murderer...
that both factors played a role in the formation of the languages. DerekBickerton and some other linguists subscribe to a theory that attributes creole...
"piece wood", in different contexts, but a later analysis by linguist DerekBickerton speculated that she treated all of these as single words in her vocabulary...
Ivan Sag, Edwin S. Williams Influenced In academia John Backus, DerekBickerton, Julian C. Boyd, Daniel Dennett, Daniel Everett, Jerry Fodor, Gilbert...
from an SOV language but are evolving into different kinds; and by DerekBickerton (1981), who argues that the original language was SVO, which supports...
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central to several accounts of how language evolved. For instance, DerekBickerton describes how our ancestors constructed scavenging niches that required...
advocacy of long-range hypotheses include: John Bengtson, Knut Bergsland, DerekBickerton, Václav Blažek, Robert Caldwell, Matthias Castrén, Björn Collinder...
"Boysie Singh 20th Century Pirate of the Caribbean". 7 August 2005. DerekBickerton. The Murders of Boysie Singh: Robber, Arsonist, Pirate, Mass-Murderer...
Circus of Horrors (1960), the thriller Payroll (1961) from the novel by DerekBickerton and Night of the Eagle (1962) which he re-wrote following a draft by...
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