http://semantics-online.org/2006/02/lisa-green-to-join-the-umass-amherst-faculty A weblog on semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, and intersections thereof Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:21:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://semantics-online.org/2006/02/lisa-green-to-join-the-umass-amherst-faculty#comment-253 Tony Marmo Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:03:53 +0000 http://www.semantics-online.org/wp/uncategorized/2006/02/lisa-green-to-join-the-umass-amherst-faculty#comment-253 <p>As always professor Selkirk has great insights and a strong determination to help important causes in the academic world. I suggest that the African American Centre should extend to the study of North-American French (specially Louisianan) and <i>Creoles</i> of French, which are also closely connected with the History of (former) slaves and their descendants in the whole Hemisphere. It is important to acknowledge that the colonisation process has turned the Americas into a <i>new Africa</i>, the African heritage binding several countries like the US, Belize, Cuba, Jamaica, Brazil, Haiti and so on. The diversity of cultural influences and the multi-lingual character of our Continent are to be both praised and studied, and certainly must be included among top priorities.</p> As always professor Selkirk has great insights and a strong determination to help important causes in the academic world. I suggest that the African American Centre should extend to the study of North-American French (specially Louisianan) and Creoles of French, which are also closely connected with the History of (former) slaves and their descendants in the whole Hemisphere. It is important to acknowledge that the colonisation process has turned the Americas into a new Africa, the African heritage binding several countries like the US, Belize, Cuba, Jamaica, Brazil, Haiti and so on. The diversity of cultural influences and the multi-lingual character of our Continent are to be both praised and studied, and certainly must be included among top priorities.

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