Renée Blake
Department of Linguistics
New York University
719 Broadway, #453
New York, NY 10003
Email: rab7@nyu.edu
Phone: 212-998-2135
Fax: 212-995-4707
Ph.D. 1997 (linguistics), M.A. 1993 (linguistics), B.SC. 1987 (biology), Stanford.
Voices of New York: Spring 2002 MAP Class Project
Major Interests:
Urban sociolinguistics; African American Vernacular English; languages and cultures of the Caribbean.
Selected Works:
"Barbadian Creole English: Insights into Class and Race Identity," Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies
(forthcoming 1996);
"Resolving the Don't Count Cases in the Quantitative Analyses of the Copula in African American Vernacular English," Language Variation and Change (forthcoming 1996);
"Rappin' on the Copula Coffin: Theoretical and Methodological Issues in the Analysis of Copula Variation in African American Vernacular English," with J. Rickford, A. Ball, R. Jackson, and N. Martin, Language Variation and Change 3 (1991): 103-32;
"Contraction and Deletion of the Copula in Barbadian English," with John Rickford, Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 16 (1990): 257-68.
Affiliations:
Linguistic Society of America Committee on Ethnic Diversity in Linguistics, 1995-1997.
Fellowships/Honors:
Dorothy Danforth Compton Dissertation Grant, 1995;
Graduate Fellowship, Stanford University, 1994;
Stanford Humanities Center Predoctoral Resident Fellowship, 1994;
Fulbright Grant, University of the West Indies, Barbados, 1992;
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Grant, 1991-1994.
Last Modified: January 28, 2003