LANGUAGE DESCRIPTION
The first grammar of Trinidadian French Creole (Patois) or of any French Creole variety was published by Trinidad's John Jacob Thomas in 1869, The Theory and Practice of Creole Grammar (click on the cover image below for the book in various formats on archive.org). Read more about John Jacob Thomas at the George Padmore Institute.
Here is a brief overview of the grammar of Patois, written by Gertrud Aub-Buscher, author of the foreword of the 1969 centennial edition of the above grammar (republished by New Beacon Books).
More recently, Nicole Scott of UWI, Mona, wrote her PhD on aspects of the grammar of Patois ("A Linguistic Description of Definiteness in Trinidadian French-lexicon Creole", The University of the West Indies, Mona, 2011).
