Chris Corne

John Christopher Corne was a linguist from New Zealand and a specialist in Creole languages. He was educated at Whangarei [Boys' High School] from 1956 to 1960. Corne completed a doctoral degree at the University of Auckland in 1970, with a thesis on the pronunciation of Tahitian French.

Publications

1970. Essai de grammaire du créole mauricien, Auckland : Linguistic Society of New Zealand.
1977. Seychelles Creole grammar: elements for Indian Ocean Proto-Creole reconstruction, Tübingen: Verlag Narr.
1982, Isle de France Creole: Affinities and Origins, Ann Arbor: Karoma.
1988. "Mauritian Creole Reflexives", Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, Volume 3, Number 1, 1988, pp. 69–94
1999. From French to Creole, Battlebridge Publications.