Renée Blake
	Associate Professor of Linguistics, Social and Cultural Analysis Ph.D. 1997 (linguistics), M.A. 1993 (linguistics), B.SC. 1987 (biology), Stanford. Office Address: Department of Linguistics New York University 719 Broadway, #453 New York, NY 10003 Phone: 212-998-2135 Fax: 212-995-4707 Email:

Areas of Research/Interest: Urban sociolinguistics; African American Vernacular English; languages and cultures of the Caribbean.

Selected Publications

"Barbadian Creole English: Insights into Class and Race Identity," Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies (forthcoming 1996);

"Resolving the Don't Count Cases in the Quantitative Analyses of the Copula in African American Vernacular English," Language Variation and Change (forthcoming 1996);

"Rappin' on the Copula Coffin: Theoretical and Methodological Issues in the Analysis of Copula Variation in African American Vernacular English," with J. Rickford, A. Ball, R. Jackson, and N. Martin, Language Variation and Change 3 (1991): 103-32;

"Contraction and Deletion of the Copula in Barbadian English," with John Rickford, Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 16 (1990): 257-68.

Fellowships/Honors: Dorothy Danforth Compton Dissertation Grant, 1995; Graduate Fellowship, Stanford University, 1994; Stanford Humanities Center Predoctoral Resident Fellowship, 1994; Fulbright Grant, University of the West Indies, Barbados, 1992; National Science Foundation Graduate Research Grant, 1991-1994.