Talk:Derek Bickerton

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what does bickerton have to say about the tense-modality-aspects systems of creole languages
 * Syntactic similarities of creoles, still under construction, is based largely on Roots of Language. There's a good argument in Language and Species that the brain evolved the symbolic representations in the order aspect, mode, then tense. Peter Grey 16:08, 12 July 2005 (UTC)Personal pagge of bickerton

http://derekbickerton.com/

Why am I being directed here?
Why does the roots of language, which could refer to any language, Dutch, Japanese, Aborigine, Creole, or what have you, redirect me to one dude? This is silly, and needs to stop. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.197.167.7 (talk) 04:14, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

English-born least misleading description of his background
He was born in England in 1926, was educated in England, studied for his undergraduate degree in England, did postgraduate work in England, gained his PhD in England, and later moved around Africa, South America, and the Pacific (Hawaii). He was 43 when he found his way to Hawaii in 1972. The article implies that at some (presumably later) point he took American citizenship. (No evidence is given in the article). Since 1948 it has been perfectly possible to retain British citizenship while taking on another citizenship of convenience. So to call him English-born American is at least as misleading as calling Einstein a German-born American physicist (which Wikipedia avoids doing) since Derek Bickerton may well have retained his original nationality all his life. One thing is clear, he was English-born and so I decided that was the most certain and least controversial way to describe him. Stikko (talk) 23:19, 28 November 2021 (UTC)