Sa ki sla-ou, s sla-ou. Today, there are fewer and fewer people in Trinidad and Tobago who recognise that the previous sentence is the Patois origin of the popular saying "What is yours is yours". A ...

Exactly 150 years ago, in April 1869, John Jacob Thomas wrote the preface to his first book, The Theory and Practice of Creole Grammar, which was published in Port of Spain later that year. This ...

The names Ferreira put forward for the new star and its co-relating exoplanet, are Dingolay and Ramajay, the linguistic significance of which was explored in Part 1 of this series, in which Ferreira ...

It would be a pretty cool thing to name a celestial body. Linguist Jo-Anne Ferreira can now add that distinction to her list of qualifications, ever since she won the Trinidad and Tobago segment of a ...

[In a follow-up to his essay last week on the 2024 Joint Conference of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics and the Society for Pidgin Languages set for August 5 – 9 at the University of Guyana ...

[Today we highlight the forthcoming international Linguistics Conference which will be hosted by the University of Guyana’s Department of Language and Cultural Studies within its Faculty of Education ...