Hubert Devonish

University of the West Indies System — JM

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

12h-index619citations58works0.52yr avg
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Research Topics

Linguistic Variation and Morphology(26), Caribbean history, culture, and politics(24), Multilingual Education and Policy(13), Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies(4), Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy(4)

Publications58 total

Jam, Ram and Fire: The Sexy Female Body in Caribbean Ethnic Discourse—The Marajhin Quartet
2026
Suriname, English and Creoles in
2025
Guylingo: The Republic of Guyana Creole Corpora
arXiv (Cornell University)·2024Open Access
GuyLingo: The Republic of Guyana Creole Corpora
2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Understanding community concerns in the Goat Islands logistics hub debate as a form of environmental justice
Geographical Journal·2023· 1 cited
COVID-19 and the Comorbidities of Spatial Inequality and Colonial Legacy: Two Caribbean Cases – Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago
2022
Jamaican Creole and Jamaican English: phonology
2020· 25 cited
Jamaica to the World
2020
Jamaica Here, Jamaica Everywhere
2020
The Languages in Conflict
2020
Once Upon an Island …
2020
Through Children’s Eyes: Where Nation, State, Race, Colour and Language Meet
2020
Language, Race and the Global Jamaican
2020· 10 cited
The English Words in Sranan
2019· 1 cited
The Manifestation of Climate Injustices: The Post-Hurricane Irma Conflicts Surrounding Barbuda’s Communal Land Tenure
Journal of Extreme Events·2019· 30 cited
Life Masquerading as Art: The Activist Artist Takes on Development v. Environment
Anthurium A Caribbean Studies Journal·2019· 2 citedOpen Access
Using features of a Creole language to reconstruct population history and cultural evolution: tracing the English origins of Sranan
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2018· 7 citedOpen Access
Freedom and/or development? Scale and intersectionality in an industrial public debate
Environmental Sociology·2018· 1 cited
Supplemental Table 1: Data from Using features of a Creole language to reconstruct population history and cultural evolution: tracing the English origins of Sranan
Figshare·2018Open Access
Supplemental Table 1: Data from Using features of a creole language to reconstruct population history and cultural evolution: tracing the English origins of Sranan
Figshare·2018Open Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Karen Carpenter(6), April Karen Baptiste(5), Ewart A. C. Thomas(4), André C. Sherriah(4), Karla N. Washington(3), Sharynne McLeod(3), Karen Carpenter(3), Nicole Creanza(3), Otelemate G. Harry(2), Megan M. McDonald(2), Kathryn Crowe(2), Dahlia Thompson(2), Jean-Charles Pochard(2), Byron Jones(2), Walter Seiler(1), Ingrid McLaren(1), Caroline Anne Dyche(1), Alison Altidor-Brooks(1), Charlene Coore(1), Christopher Clarke(1)