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(1943-2015) Author. John Holm earned a master’s degree in teaching English as a foreign language at Columbia University’s Teachers College, and later studied African-American English at the State University of New York at Cortland. He taught English and linguistics at Hunter College and taught in the doctoral linguistics program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Full Name

John Holm

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


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Mr. Holm earned a master's degree in teaching English as a foreign language at Columbia University's Teachers College.

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Mr. Holm studied African-American English at the State University of New York at Cortland.

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Mr. Holm taught English and linguistics at Hunter College and taught in the doctoral linguistics program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

1943

BIRTH

John Alexander Holm was born in Jackson, Michigan, on May 16, 1943.

1982

LITWORK

Dictionary Of Bahamian English
Lexik House Publishers, Cold Spring, New York
978-0-936368-03-0
Nonfiction written with Alison Watt Shilling.

1983

LITWORK

Central American English
John Benjamins Publishing Company
3872762958 / 978-3872762955
Nonfiction edited by John Holm.

1986

LITWORK

Focus On The Caribbean
John Benjamins Publishing Company
9027248664 / 978-9027248664
Nonfiction edited with Manfred Gorlach.

1988

LITWORK

Pidgins and Creoles: Volume 1, Theory and Structure
Cambridge University Press
0521249805 / 978-0521249805
Nonfiction.

1989

LITWORK

Pidgins and Creoles: Volume 2, Reference Survey
Cambridge University Press
0521350891 / 978-0521350891
Nonfiction.

2000

LITWORK

An Introduction To Pidgins And Creoles
Cambridge University Press
0521584604 / 978-0521584609
Nonfiction.

2007

LITWORK

Comparative Creole Syntax: Parallel Outlines Of 18 Creole Grammars
Battlebridge Publications
1903292018 / 978-1903292013
Nonfiction edited with Peter L. Patrick.

2008

LITWORK

Contact Languages: Critical Concepts In Language Studies
Routledge
0415403774 / 978-0415403771
A five-volume series of nonfiction edited with Susanne Maria Michaelis.

2015

DEATH

John Holm died in Azeitao, Portugal, on December 28, 2015.

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