University Daily Kansan / Thursday, August 31, 1989
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Jamaican professor gets Hughes award
By Jennifer Metz
By Jennifer Metz
Kansan staff writer
A linguistics professor from the University of the West Indies, Jamaica, was named this year's Langton Hughes visiting professor.
Mervyn C. Alleye received a joint appointment last spring from the University of Kansas department of linguistics and the department of African and African-American Studies.
The Langston Hughes award is given every year in memory of the U.S. author who is best known for his poems about Black experiences in the United States, Allewne said.
Alleyne, who met Hughes in Harlem many years ago, said he never imagined he would receive an award many years later to commemorate such a distinguished person.
I am a great admirer of his work and of him as a person," Alleyne said.
The award is even more meaning-
ful because Hughes lived in Lafayette.
Arthur Drayton, professor in the department of African and African-American Studies, said that Allevne
was an expert in the development of English in new world societies.
One of Alleye's specialty languages is Creole, which evolved from the interaction of Western European and African cultures.
Alleye teaches a graduate level course titled Pidgin and Creole Languages at KU, which focuses on child language acquisition. Alleye said.
Another course he teaches, African Cultural Continuities in the New World, is an undergraduate course which focuses on ways that African culture is continued in the southern United States and in the Carribean.
"I have a Third World perspective," Alleyne said. "I think people who have grown up in a strictly Western society are exposed to a different perspective."
Aside from teaching, Alleyne said he hoped to pursue his interest in child language acquisition.
Although the Langston Hughes award is normally awarded for only a semester, Alleyne's appointment will be extended to enable him to work at the Bureau of Child Research at KU. Drayton said.
"The classes have been a lot of fun for me," Alleyne said.
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