Gerardo A. Lorenzino (Yale University)

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Gerardo A. Lorenzino
Senior Lecturer in Spanish
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Yale University
P.O. Box 208204
New Haven, Connecticut  06520-8204  USA

phone:   203 432 1152
fax:     203 432 1178
e-mail:  gerardo.lorenzino@yale.edu

Research interests:

Pidgins and creoles, languages in contact (Portuguese, Kwa, Bantu),
pragmatics

Publications:

Ph.D. (1998): The Angolar Creole Portuguese of Sao Tome (West Africa): 
its grammar and sociolinguistic history. Graduate Center, City 
University of New York. Ann Arbor: UMI.  

Books: 

1998. Assistant Editor. America Negra: panoramica actual de los estudios 
linguisticos sobre variedades hispanas, portuguesas y criollas, edited 
by Matthias Perl and Armin Schwegler. Frankfurt/Madrid: Vervuert.

Articles:

Forthcoming: The Umbundu of the Tongas: a case of language retention.  In
Proceedings of African Linguistics. 

1998: El espanol del Caribe como lengua semicriolla.  In Matthias Perl & 			
Armin Schwegler (eds.), America Negra: panoramica actual de los estudios 
linguisticos sobre variedades hispanas, portuguesas y criollas. 
Frankfurt/Madrid: Vervuert.

1996a: Afro-Portuguese Creole: Its Kwa Origins and Discourse 
Pragmatics.  In African Journal of Languages and Linguistics 1:45-67.

1996b: El contacto del espanol con lenguas africanas en Hispanoamérica.  
In Signo y Sena 6 (Buenos Aires).

1996c: Em transito. Dactylus 15: 80-84.

1995: Categorial changes of body part words in two Portuguese-based 
creoles.  In Proceedings of the Linguistic Association of Canada and the 
United States (LACUS 21), pp. 657-669.

1994a: Language contact in Sao Tome and Principe.  In CUNY Forum 18 
(Working Papers in Linguistics):98-116.

1994b with John Holm et al.: Relative clauses in Atlantic and 
non-Atlantic creoles.  Papia (Revista de Crioulos de Base Iberica, 
Brasilia) 3:70-87.

1993a: Austronesian vs. African substrate influence on the Spanish-based 
creoles. In John Holm & Frank Byrne (eds.), Atlantic meets Pacific: A 
global view of pidginization and creolization. Amsterdam/New York: 
Benjamins. pp. 399-408.

1993b: Algunos rasgos semicriollos en el español popular dominicano. In 
Anuario de Linguistica Hispanica 9:111-26 (Valladolid, Spain).

1992: Un estudio comparativo del sintagma nominal en Palenquero 
(Colombia) y Papiamentu (Curazao). In Papia (Revista de Crioulos de Base 
Iberica) 2:50-70 (Brasilia, Brazil) . 

1990: Schuchardt: The Beginnings of Pidgin and Creole Studies. 
California Linguistics Newsletter 21:5-9.