2008. with Cecile B. Vigouroux. “Colonization, Globalization and Language Vitality in Africa: An Introduction”.
2007. “The sociolinguistics history of the Peranakans – What it tells us about ‘creolization”.
2007. “The indigenization of English in North America”
2007. “Population Movements and Contacts in Language Evolution”.
2006. “Race, Racialism, and the Study of Language Evolution in America”
2004. “Gullah: morphology and syntax” in A handbook of varieties of English
2003. Language endangerment: What have pride and prestige got to do with it?
2003. with Sheri Pargman. Competition and Selection in the Development of American Englishes
2003. Approaches to Change in American English
2003. “Contact Languages in the Bantu Area”
2002. Colonisation, Globalisation, and the Future of Languages in the Twenty-first Century
2002. What do creoles and pidgins tell us about the evolution of language?
2001. The Ecology of Language Evolution
2001. “What is African American English?”.
2000. “Some Sociohistorical Inferences about the Development of African American English”.
2000. “Population Contacts and the Evolution of English.
2000. “Creolization is a social, not a structural, process”.
2000. From Genetic Creolistics to Historical Dialectology: Ecological and Population Genetics Perspectives
1999. “Accountability in Descriptions of Creoles”.
1999. Ebonics and standard English in the classroom: Some issues
1999. “North American Varieties of English as Byproducts of Population Contacts”.
1998. with John R Rickford, John Baugh & Guy H Bailey. African-American English: Structure, History and Use
1997. Review author. Pidgins and Creoles: An Introduction by Jacques Arends, Pieter Muysken, Norval Smith.
1994. Review author. The African Heritage of American English by Joseph E. Holloway, Winifred K. Vass
1994. Review author. The Other Tongue: English across Cultures by Braj B. Kachru
1993. Review author. Pidgin-English du Cameroun: Description linguistique et sociolinguistique by Carole de Feral
1992. Review author. Language Adaptation by Florian Coulmas
1992. Pragmatics of Elusive Languages.
1992. “Ideology and facts on African American English”.
1990. Transfer and the Substrate Hypothesis in Creolistics.
1988. English Pidgins: Form and Function.
1985. “The linguistic significance of African proper names in Gullah”
1983. (Review author). Theory and Method in Lexicography: Western and Non-Western Perspectives by Ladislav Zgusta
1982. (Review author). Generative Studies on Creole Languages by Pieter Muysken
1978. “A Reconsideration of Lingala Temporal Inflections”.
1977. “Some considerations on the new lexeme beau in Lingala”
(undated). Language evolution: the population genetics way.
(undated). Globalization and the Myth of Killer Languages: What’s Really Going on?