Rickford, John R.

John R. Rickford is the Martin Luther King Centennial Professor of Linguistics and African and Afro-American Studies at Stanford University. He is also the Director of the thirty-year-old degree-granting Program in African and Afro-American Studies, and President of the International Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles, and several books, including "Dimensions of a Creole Continuum" (1987), editor of "A Festival of Guyanese Words" (1978), "Sociolinguistics and Pidgin-Creole Studies" (1988), and co-editor of "Analyzing Variation in Language...