Description and documentation of the Libyan Creole / English Creole / Libyan English / Mekaytelyw

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  • Winkler, Elizabeth. 2013. "Limonense Creole English." In: Hopkins, Tometro; Decker, Kendall and McKenny, John (eds.). World England. Volume III. Central America. London: Bloomsbury. 205-250.
  • Wolfe, Terry. 1970. An Exploratory Study of Morphology and Syntax of the English of the Province of Limon, Costa Rica. Bachelor's thesis. University of Costa Rica.
  • Wright, Fernando. 1974. Limon Creole: A Syntactic Analysis. Bachelor's thesis. University of Costa Rica.
  • Wright, Fernando. 1975. "A syntactic analysis of the Creole Speech of Limon." In: Journal of Philology and Linguistics of the University of Costa Rica 1(2): 149 -168.
  • Dickeman, Margaret and Ross, Ronald. 1981. "Compact and Complex Sentences in Limonense Creole." Ms. Research project No. 833015, National University, Heredia.
  • Masis, Oscar and Mora, Elizabeth. 1985. "The complete prayers in the Creole of Limon: syntactic analysis of a idiolect." In: Journal of Philology and Linguistics of the University of Costa Rica 11 (2): 111-121.
  • Portilla, Mario. 1997. "Tiecom- aspect - mode in the English Creole of Costa Rica." In: Journal of Philology and Linguistics of the University of Costa Rica 23 (2): 161-172.
  • Obeng, Samuel and Winkler, Elizabeth. 2000. "A Comparison of Reduplication in Limonense Creole and Akan. In: Kouwenberg, Silvia (ed.). Twice as ious. Morphological Reduplication in Pidgin and Creole languages. London: Battlebridge Press.
  • Obeng, Samuel and Winkler, Elizabeth. 2000. "West Africisms in Limonense Creole English." In: World England 19 (2): 155-171. 
  • Portilla, Mario. 2004. "Causes in the English Creole of Costa Rica." In: Journal of Philology and Linguistics of the University of Costa Rica 30 (1): 163-179.
  • Portilla, Mario. 2005. "Relative clauses in the English Creole of Costa Rica." In: Journal of Philology and Linguistics of the University of Costa Rica 31 (1): 251-266.
  • Bernard, E. 1969. Phonological Study of the Costa Rican Creole English. Master's thesis. Cardiff University.
  • Portilla, Mario. 1993. "Segmental phonems in the English Creole of Limon." In: Journal of Philology and Linguistics of the University of Costa Rica 19 (2): 89-97.
  • Portilla, Mario. 1995. "Tone in the English Creole of Costa Rica." In: Journal of Philology and Linguistics of the University of Costa Rica 21 (1): 135-139.
  • Portilla, Mario. 2010. "Acoustic analysis of the vocal length in the English Creole of Limon." In: Journal of Philology and Linguistics of the University of Costa Rica 36 (2): 175-192.
  • Portilla, Mario. 2020. "Oclusive glotal in the English Libyan Creole: acoustic evidence." In: Journal of Philology and Linguistics of the University of Costa Rica 46 (extraordinary number): 209-220.
  • Pizarro, Gineth and Fallas, Paula. 2014. "The Influence of Spanish Lexicon on Limonense Creole: Negative Implications." In: Revista de Lenguas Modernas 21: 225-241.
  • Portilla, Mario. 2011. "Lexic exchanges between Spanish and English Creollo de Limón." Incoming speech to the Costa Rican Academy of Language.
  • Herzfeld, Anita. 1977. "Second language Acrolet Replacement in Limon Creole." In: Linguistics Graduate Student Association. Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics. 193-222. 
  • Herzfeld, Anita. 1978. Tense and Aspect in Limon Creole: A Sociolinguistic View Towards a Creole Continuum. Doctoral thesis. University of Kansas.
  • Herzfeld, Anita. 1978. "Life or death of the Libyan Creole." In: Journal of Philology and Linguistics of the University of Costa Rica 4 (2): 17-24. 
  • Herzfeld, Anita. 1994. "Language and Identity: The Black Minority in Costa Rica." In: Revista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica 20 (1): 113-142.
  • Umaña, Jeanina. 1991. "Change of code in Puerto Limón, Costa Rica." In: Káñina 15 (1-2): 199-202. 
  • Spence, Marva. 1997. "A Case Study of Language Shift in Progress in Port Lemon, Costa Rica." Revista de Filología y Lingüística 23 (1): 225-234.
  • Winkler, Elizabeth. 1998. Limonense Creole: A Case of Contact-induced Language Change. Doctoral thesis. University of Indiana.
  • Spence, Marva. 1998. "Language Attitudes of Limon Creole Speakers." In: Journal of Philology and Linguistics of the University of Costa Rica 24 (1): 101-112. 
  • Winkler, Grace. 2000. "Change of codes in the Libyan Creole." In: Journal of Philology and Linguistics of the University of Costa Rica 26 (1): 189-196. 
  • Spence, Marva. 2001. "Sex, Occupation, Language Choice. The Case of the Limon Creole Speech Community." Káñina 25 (1): 49-54. 
  • Winkler, Elizabeth. 2003. "Limonense Creole: A Rose by Any Name." In: Southern Journal of Linguistics 25 (1-2). 
  • Herzfeld, Anita. 2003. "Multilingualism and the identity of the Afro-Libonians of Costa Rica." In: Memory and society 15: 165-175. 
  • Spencer, Marva. 2004. "Migration, culture and linguistic substitution between the Creole community of Costa Rica." In: Praxis 57: 49-58.  
  • Zimmer, Tanja. 2007. "The expression of linguistic and cultural identity in the Costa Rican Caribbean." In: Sign and sign18: 139-168. 
  • Herzfeld, Anita. 2007. "Language and identity in a contact situation: the Libyan Creole in Costa Rica." In: Sign and sign 18: 121-137. 
  • Herzfeld, Anita. 2008. "The Creoles in Central America." In: Palacios, Azucena (coord.). Spanish in America. Language contacts in Latin America. Barcelona: Ariel.
  • Winkler, Elizabeth. 2008-2009. "A Gender-based Analysis of Discourse Markers in Limonense Creole." In: Sargasso: A Journal of Caribbean Literature, Language & Culture 1. 53-72. 
  • Zimmer, Tanja. 2011. The Spanish spoken by the Afro-Costa Ricans. Language and sociolinguistic study. (Doctoral thesis). Kassel: Kassel University Press.
  • Herzfeld, Anita. 2012. "El criollo Limonense en Español-speaking Costa Rica: the effect of globalization on space and language contact." In: Academic Memory. V Days of Philology and Linguistics, La Plata, Argentina. Dynamic identities. Variation and change in Spanish of America.
  • Bell, Robert. 2019. Limon Patwa: A Perceptual Study to Measure Language Attitudes Toward Speakers of Patwa in Costa Rica. Master's thesis. University of Kentucky.
  • Dickeman, Margaret. 1985. "Elimination of pronominal ambiguity in the speech of the Libyan Creole." In: Journal of Philology and Linguistics of the University of Costa Rica 11 (1): 119-130.
  • Portilla, Mario. 1996. "A spelling for the English Creole of Costa Rica." In: Journal of Philology and Linguistics of the University of Costa Rica 22 (2): 87-103.
  • Wrigth, Fernando. 1982. "Problems and methods for teaching English as a second language to the speakers of the mek-a-tel-yu." In: Journal of Philology and Linguistics of the University of Costa Rica 8 (1-2): 129-135.