Bickerton, Derek
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- Bastard tongues, 2008:ECIP t.p. (Derek Bickerton) data view (b. Mar. 6, 1926) book title page (Derek Bickerton) page 4 of cover (linguist who has spent more than thirty years researching Creole languages; Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of Hawaii) pages 3-4 (I was teaching English literature at what was then called the University College of Science Education, located in Cape Coast, Ghana) page 25 (Creole scholars; becoming a creolist was regarded, in most universities, as professional suicide) page 111 (Creole studies; creolists) page 206 (my creolist colleagues)
- The chronicle of higher education, Apr. 6, 2018:page A51 (Derek Bickerton; died Mar. 5, 2018; professor emeritus at the University of Hawaii--Manoa; linguist with expertise in pidgin and creole languages)
- Wikipedia, July 7, 2025(Derek Bickerton (March 25, 1926 - March 5, 2018) was an English-born linguist, novelist, and professor at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; born Cheshire, England; also wrote several novels; graduate of the University of Cambridge, England in 1949; entered academic life in the 1960s, first as a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, and then, after a year's postgraduate work in linguistics at the University of Leeds, as senior lecturer in linguistics at the University of Guyana (1967-71). For twenty-four years he was Associate Professor and Professor of Linguistics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (1972-96), having meanwhile received a PhD in linguistics in 1976 from the University of Cambridge)
- Payroll, 1959:t.p. (Derek Bickerton)
- LC files(b. 1926)
- Language & species, 1992:t.p. (Derek Bickerton) p. 4 of cover (prof. of linguistics, Univ. of Hawaii)
- Bastard tongues, 2008:ECIP t.p. (Derek Bickerton) data view (b. Mar. 6, 1926)
Wikipedia description:
Derek Bickerton (March 25, 1926 – March 5, 2018) was an English-born American linguist, novelist, and professor at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Based on his work in creole languages in Guyana and Hawaii, he has proposed that the features of creole languages provide powerful insights into the development of language both by individuals and as a feature of the human species. He is the originator and main proponent of the language bioprogram hypothesis according to which the similarity of creoles is due to their being formed from a prior pidgin by children who all share a universal human innate grammar capacity. Bickerton also wrote several novels. His novels have been featured in the works of the Sun Ra Revival Post Krautrock Archestra, through spoken word and musical themes.
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