Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics

Dr Ben BRAITHWAITE

Lecturer - Linguistics

Office

Room 315B, 3rd Floor West, School of Humanities
Faculty of Humanities and Education
The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine

Phone: (868) 662-2002, c/o Ext. 82035
E-mail: Benjamin.Braithwaite@sta.uwi.edu

Education

• PhD Linguistics, Newcastle ( “Word and sentence structure in Nuu-chah-nulth”)
• BA Newcastle

Research Interests

• Sign Language Linguistics
• Theoretical Syntax, Morphology and Phonology and their Interfaces
• Lexical Categories Cross-linguistically
• The Southern Wakashan Languages

Current Courses

Undergraduate

• LING 1002 Introduction to Morphology and Syntax
• LING 2002 Syntax
• LING 2004 Semantics
• LING 3002 Advanced Syntax

Postgraduate

• LING 6005 The Development of Theoretical Linguistics
• LING 6401 The Grammar of English: An Extrapolatory Approach

Recent Publications

• Braithwaite, Ben. The Child and the Structure of Creoles, Pidgins and Signed Languages. In The Child and the Caribbean Imagination. Ed. Giselle Rampaul. Kingston: UWI Press, 2013. pp. 117-135.

• Braithwaite, Ben, Kathy-Ann Drayton and Alicia Lamb. The History of Deaf Language and Education in Trinidad and Tobago since 1943. History in Action 2.1 (March 2011): 12-17.

• Braithwaite, Ben. Syntactic approaches to possessive construction in Nuuchahnulth. In J.C. Brown & Michele Kalmar, eds. The 38th International Conference on Salish and Neighboring Languages. UBC Working Papers in Linguistics, vol. 11. 7-22.

• Braithwaite, Ben. Evidence for the dislocation of arguments in Nuuchahnulth. In CamLing 2004 Proceedings. Ed. Katsos, Napoleon. 100-107.