SOCIETY FOR PIDGIN AND CREOLE LINGUISTICS
University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
June 26 — 27, 2001
Monday, 25, June
15:00 — 18:00 Registration: Sala dos Professores
18:00 Conference Warming and Get-Together: TBA
Tuesday, 26 June
MORNING
10:00 — 10:30 Welcome and Opening: Anfiteatro V (6th floor)
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Session A Developmental Models I Chair: Kate Howe Room: Anfiteatro V 10:30 James Essegbey (Leiden University), Motion expression in Sranan: Evidence of Relexification 11:00 Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino, A structural comparison of Angolar and Sao-Tomense |
Session B Varia I Chair: Frank Martinus Room: Aula 13 10:30 Laurence Goury (IRD Paris– Institute for Research and Development), The Afaka script: a syllabic script for Ndjuka 11:00 Stephen Graham (SIL International), A diachronic social network analysis of the 'rational expectations' theory as a factor in the develoment of language links in the context of four lusolexed creoles |
Session C Sociolinguistics I Chair: Nicolas Faraclas Room: Aula 8 10:30 Charles Mann (University of Surrey), Towards a theory of language attitudes: Findings on Anglo-Nigeria Pidgin 11:00 Kari Dako (University of Ghana), Student Pidgin (SP): The language of the educated male elite
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Tuesday, 26 June,
AFTERNOON
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Session A Tense/Modality Chair: Jeff Siegel Room: Anfiteatro V 12:00 Christine Jourdan and Rachel Selbach (Concordia University), Bae revisited: is the future marker in the VP yet? 12:30 Viveka Velupillai (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology), Modality Distinctions in spoken Hawai’i Creole English: Cannot versus no can |
Session B Tone/Phonology Chair: Angela Bartens Room: Aula 13 12:00 Yolando Rivera-Castillo (U. Puerto Rico) Phonetic Correlates of Tone and Stress in a Mixed System 12:30 Silvia Kouwenberg (U. West Indies) The Grammatical Function of Papiamentu Tone |
LUNCH
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Session A Language Contact/Language Change Chair: Heliana de Mello Room: Anfiteatro V 14:30 Peter Slomanson (City University of New York), A Malay substrate model for Afrikaans Passives 15:00 Adrienne Bruyn, Verbal particles in Dutch and English creole languages–a matter of contact 15:30 Maura, Velazquez-Castillo (Colorado State Unversity), Spanish in Paraguay: morpho-syntactic change in a long-term situation 16:00 Dwijen Bhattacharjya (Columbia University) and Gerardo Lorenzino (Temple University), Classifying contact-induced varieties: Nagamese |
Session B Morphology Chair: Jacques Arends Room: Aula 13 14:30 JJP Sainton (Universite des Antilles), Bantu Heritage: Pseudo noun classes and classifiers in Antille French-based Creoles 15:00 Marlyse Baptista (University of Georgia), Number Inflection in Creole Languages 15:30 Claire Lefebvre (Université du Quebec à Montreal), On the semantic opacity of creole languages 16:00 Dany Adone (Heinrich-Heine-Universität), Morphology in Two Indian Ocean Creoles |
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Session A Pragmatics/Discourse Chair: Charles Mann Room: Anfiteatro V 17:00 Emmanuel Schang (Université Nancy 2), La référence en forro: de la syntaxe à la pragmatique 17:30 Mushina Allesaib (Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle), Discourse Markers in Mauritan Creole 18:00 Eva Martha Eckkrammer (University of Salzburg), Variants and diatopic diversity in Papiamentu passive voice: a corpus-based study |
Session B Syntax Chair: Michel DeGraff Room: Aula 13 17:00 Viviane Deprez (Rutgers University), Constraints on the meanings of bare nouns 17:30 Carla Luijks (University of the Witwatersrand), On ‘Complimentiser Creation’: the disambiguating progress witnessed from a nineteenth century corpus Hollands-Afrikaans 18:00 Federico Damonte (University of Padua), The left periphery in Saramaccan |
Wednesday, 27 June
MORNING
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Session A Sociolinguistics II Chair: Juliette Sainton Room: Anfiteatro V 9:30 Angela Bartens (University of Helsinki), A Sociolinguistics Survey of San Andrés Island, Colombia 10:00 Paula Prescod (University of Sorbonne-Nouvelle), Vincentian : Speech: A Conservative Creole 10:30 Magnus Huber (University of Regensburg), If me die, me die, had rather die in me own Countrey than this cold place." The Nova Scotia-Sierra Leone connection: 11:00 Arthur Spears (CUNY, Grad. Ctr.), The creole element in African-American English |
Session B Typology Chair: Tometro Hopkins Room: Aula 13 9:30 Kate Howe, Grammaticalization and typology of the "simultaneous" tense in Haitian Creole 10:00 Tonjes Veenstra, Creole Prototypes as basic varieties and inflectional morphology 10:30 Hans den Besten (University of Amsterdam), Afrikaans, Asian Creole Portuguese and areal typology 11:00 Michel DeGraff (MIT), ‘Neo’-Darwinian Creolistics: A short debugging guide |
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Session A Lingua Franca Chair: Adrienne Bruyn Room: Anfiteatro V 12:00 Jacques Arends (University of Amsterdam), From Genoa to Guinea (and beyond?) The Mediterranean area as the cradle of creolization 12:30 Lojean Valles-Akil (Ateneo de Zamboanga): The Austronesian Influence on Chabacano syntax |
Session B Serial Verb Constructions Chair: Arthur Spears Room: Aula 13 12:00 Michael L. Forman (University of Hawai’i), Serial verb constructions among the Zamboangueño Chains? 12:30 Heliana de Mello (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), The codification of Figure and Ground in Brazilian Portuguese serial verb constructions |
LUNCH
Wednesday, 27 June
AFTERNOON
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Session A Language Acquisition Chair: Dany Adone Room: Anfiteatro V 15:00 Anne-Marie Spinoghe (U. Ghent and Brussels) Spoken Brazilian Portuguese: a fusion of creole and oral registers? 15:30 Peter Finn (College of Ripon and York St. John), Interlanguage, language shift and the rise of Canadian Raising in Cape Flat Islands 16:00 Ana Deumert (University of Heidelberg), Namibian "Küchendeutsch" –Second language acquisition meets pidginization |
Session B Tense/Modal/Aspect System Chair: Silvia Kouwenberg Room: Aula 13 15:00 J. Clancy Clements (Indiana University), The TMA system in Interlanguage and Pidgins 15:30 Stephanie Hackert (University of Heidelberg), Aspect and tense marking in creoles: Evidence from urban Bahamian Creole 16:00 Bao Zhiming (National University of Singapore), The origins of the aspectual categories in Singapore |
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Session A Developmental Models II Chair: Marylse Baptista Room: Anfiteatro V 17:00 Jeff Siegel (University of New England, Armidale), Fiji Pidgins and the Pidgin prototype 17:30 Alan Baxter (Universidade de Macau), The development of variable number agreement in a restructured African variety of Portuguese |
Session B Morphology: Lexicon Chair: Claire Lefebvre Room: Aula 13 17:00 Thomas Klein (U. of Manchester), Conflicting trends in Creole syllable structure: Evidence from Haitian morphophonology 17:30 Valeri Khabirov (Ural State Pedagogical University), Growth of the lexicon of the Creolized Lingala and Sango |
Session C Varia II Chair: Magnus Huber Room: Aula 13 17:00 Nicholas Faraclas (University of Papua New Guinea), Globalization and the future of Pidgin and Creole Languages: Case studies from the Pacific and West Africa 17:30 Frank Martinus (Kolegio Erasmus), The survival of Friday: A Muslim week calendar in Saramaccan |