Derek Bickerton
Derek Bickerton ( born March 25, 1926) is an American linguist.
In 1949, Derek Bickerton earned a degree at the University of Cambridge in England. In the 1960s he began his work in academia, first at the University of Cape Coast in Ghana ( English literature ), then in the field of linguistics at the University of Leeds. From 1967 to 1971 he was a lecturer in linguistics at the University of Guyana. Where they developed to be today -standing interest in creole languages .
In 1976 he earned the degree Ph. D. in Linguistics from the University of Cambridge. One year he worked at the University of Lancaster in England. Since 1983 he is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Hawaii in Hawaii.
Publications
- Tropicana, A Novel. , 1963
- Dynamics Of A Creole System, 1975
- Roots of Language, 1981, Karoma Publishers, ISBN 0897200446
- The language bioprogram hypothesis, in: The Behavioral Sciences 7, 173-188, 1984.
- Language and Human Behavior, 1995
- Lingua ex Machina: Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky with the Human Brain, 2000 (with William H. Calvin )
- Adam 's Tongue: How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans, 2010, ISBN 978-0809016471