Joy Peltier

Joy's research centers on the pragmatics of functional and discourse items, particularly in situations involving languages in contact. My methodologies draw upon insights from work in creolistics, psycholinguistics, corpus linguistics, historical linguistics, and sign language & gesture. My current research is centered on the determiners and discourse markers of Kwéyòl Donmnik, an understudied French-influenced creole spoken on the Caribbean island of Dominica and throughout a wide diaspora. My background gives me a strong foundation in Romance languages (specifically Spanish and French), as well as ample experience teaching linguistics and academic writing at the university level.