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Books

·         The Portuguese in the East: A Cultural History of a Maritime Trading Empire.  London: I B Tauris Academic Publishers. pp. 212 (2008).

·         An Anthology of Indo-Portuguese Verse. UK: Edwin Mellen Press. pp. 237 (2001).

·         Indo-Portuguese of Ceylon:  A Contact Language. London: Athena Publications. pp. 188 (2001).

·         Tagus to Taprobane: Portuguese Impact on the socioculture of Sri Lanka from 1505 AD.  The Ceylon Historical Journal Monograph Series Volume 20.  Sri Lanka: Tisara Publishers.  pp. 459 (2001).

 

Book Chapters

  • Multilingualism and the Sri Lanka Portuguese of an Afrodescent Community.  In: Global Portuguese.  Eds:  Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya and Stefan Halikowski-Smith. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers (2024).
  • Language Maintenance and Loss among Afro-Asians in South Asia. In:  Language Contact and Language Shift.  Ed:  K Ihemere.  Munich: LINCOM Studies in Language Typology (2011).
  • ·         Persisting Portuguese Linguistic Impressions in India and Sri Lanka.  In:  Portuguese in the Orient:  The Portuguese in Sri Lanka and India.  Kandy, Sri Lanka: International Centre for Ethnic Studies (2010).      

Reduplication in Indo-Portuguese, Malayo-Portuguese  and Sino-Portuguese.  In: Twice as Meaningful.  pp. 185-191.  Ed:  S Kouwenberg. Battlebridge  Publications, London (2002).

 

Articles in Journals

  • Impact of Multilingualism on Sri Lanka Portuguese.  Ceylankan.  February 2020.
  • O português do Seri Lanca:  situação atual.  Folha   Boletim da lingua portuguesa nas instituições europeias no. 60 – verão de 2019, pp. 7-10.
  • Correspondence between Hugo Schuchardt, John Henry Eaton, Donald Ferguson, Edmund Woodhouse and William Goonatilleke on Ceylon Portuguese with Linguistic Insights. Grazer Linguistische Studien 84, Austria (2015).
  • Linguistic Influences on Portuguese Burghers and Afro-Sri Lankans.  Ceylankan Australia, August (2014).
  • Cross-cultural Influences on the Language of the Sri Lankan Malays.  African & Asian Studies 8(3):  204-221, Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, Netherlands (2009).

·         Hugo Schuchardt Manuscript of Sri Lanka Portuguese Creole: Linguistic Analysis with Portuguese and English Translations. ORBIS, 41: 189-203, University of Leuven, Belgium (2008-2009).

·         Portugal and Sri Lanka:  Sociocultural Interactions and Language Contact. Oriente 17: 3-18, Lisbon, Portugal (2007).

·         Tense Mood and Aspect in Sri Lanka Portuguese Creole. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Sri Lanka, XLVII: 115-132 (2004).

·         Changing Political Scenarios and Linguistic Innovation: The Case of Sri Lanka Portuguese Creole.  Sprachtypol. Univ. Forsch. (STUF), 56 (4): 400-411 (2003).

·         Grammatical Variation in an Indo-Portuguese Creole. ORBIS, 42, University of Leuven, Belgium (2002).         

·         Asian Portuguese Creoles:   A Common Origin. EPISTEME  7-8-9: 459-466. Revista Multidisciplinar da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal (2001).

·         A Unique Malay:  Sri Lankan Malay Creole. NUSA, 50: 43-58,  Jakarta, Indonesia (2001). 

·         Sri Lanka Portuguese Creole:  A Language in Eclipse.  Indian Ocean Review, 13 (1): 20-21. (2000).

·         Indo-Portugués e Sinhala: Inter-Câmbio das Palavras. PAPIA, 10: 66-77. University of Brasilía, Brazil (2000).

·         Portuguese in Sri Lanka:  Effects of Substratum Languages.   Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 9 (2): pp. 251-270 (1999).

·         Sinhala Borrowings in Sri Lanka Portuguese Creole.  Journal  of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka, XLIV: 31-37 (1999).

·         Portuguese Borrowings in Sinhala. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Sri Lanka, XLIII: 1-12 (with R Wijetunge 1999).

 

 

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