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)

 

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

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

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

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

BREAK

 

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

 

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