Dr. Jeannette Allsopp
BA, MA (London), PhD (London Met)

Senior Research Fellow in Lexicography

Room: Caribbean Lexicography Offc., Alistair McIntyre Building
Tel. (246) 417-4468/69
Fax: (246) 417-0422
E-mail: jeannette.allsopp (at) cavehill.uwi.edu

Brief Bio:

Jeannette Allsopp is the Director of the Centre for Caribbean Lexicography and is also currently the Coordinator of Linguistics in the Department of Language, Linguistics and Literature. She is the author of the Caribbean Multilingual Dictionary of Flora, Fauna and Foods in English, French, French Creole and Spanish and published by Arawak Publications in 2003, as well as a number of articles, chapters in books and conference papers. She is also the current President of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics and the Consultant in Caribbean English for the Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd Edition, published by Oxford University Press.

Research Interests:

Dr. Allsopp's research interests include Caribbean Lexicography, both Anglophone and Multilingual, Creole linguistics, language acquisition, Caribbean literature in English, French and Spanish, language teaching methodology, Caribbean culture. .

Select Publications:

• Caribbean Multilingual Dictionary of Flora, Fauna and Foods in English, French, French Creole and Spanish, Jamaica: Arawak Publications, 2003.
  
  
• “Caribbean Cross-Culturalism I  in the Caribbean Multilingual Dictionary of Flora, Fauna and Foods” in Beyond Borders, eds,. Jennifer Rahim and Barbara Lalla, Jamaica: UWI Press, 2009, pp 77 – 96.
  
  
• “Dictionaries of Caribbean English” in The Oxford History of English Lexicography, Vol. 1 ed. A.P. Cowie, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2009.

Jeannette Allsopp is currently working on the second volume of the Caribbean Multilingual Dictionary which will deal with Caribbean music, dance, folklore, festivals and religion. She is also editing a book on Caribbean linguist, Dennis Craig, together with his wife, Professor Zellynne Jennings-Craig