* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
LINGUIST List logo Eastern Michigan University Wayne State University *
* People & Organizations * Jobs * Calls & Conferences * Publications * Language Resources * Text & Computer Tools * Teaching & Learning * Mailing Lists * Search *
* *
LINGUIST List 19.3272

Tue Oct 28 2008

Confs: Creole Languages, General Linguistics/Norway

Editor for this issue: Stephanie Morse <morselinguistlist.org>

LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3!
Directory
        1.    Marleen van de Vate, Formal Approaches to Creole Studies

Message 1: Formal Approaches to Creole Studies
Date: 28-Oct-2008
From: Marleen van de Vate <creolehum.uit.no>
Subject: Formal Approaches to Creole Studies
E-mail this message to a friend

Formal Approaches to Creole Studies

Date: 14-Nov-2008 - 15-Nov-2008
Location: Tromsø, Norway
Contact: Marleen van de Vate
Contact Email: creolehum.uit.no
Meeting URL: http://www.hum.uit.no/creole/index.html

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Language Family(ies): Creole
Meeting Description:

The goal of this workshop is to bring together scholars who share an interest in
the formal study of creole languages.

Program

Friday November 14

9:00-
Registration

9:45
Welcome

10:00-11:00
Alain Kihm
TBA

11:00-11:30
Coffee

11:30-12:15
Muhsina Alleesaib
Se/sa-ki as Head of Relativised Determiner Phrases in Mauritian

12:15-13:00
Nélia Alexandre
Resumptive Versus Defective wh-chains in Capeverdean Creole

Lunch

14:15-15:00
Enoch Aboh
Competition and Selection

15:00-15:45
Parth Bhatt & Emmanuel Nikiema Is Haitian Creole really a CV language?

Tea

16:15-17:00
Yolanda Rivera-Castillo
Vowel Harmony and Feature-Value Underspecification

17:00-17:45
Tjerk Hagemeijer
Negation in the Gulf of Guinea Creoles in the Light of (Creole) Typology

Saturday November 15

9:30-10:15
Viviane Depréz
On the Conceptual Role of Number Marking in French Based Creoles

10:15-11:00
Olga Borik & Fernanda Pratas
Stativity and Temporal Interpretation in Capeverdean Creole

Coffee

11:30-12:15
Stephanie Durrleman
Nominal Architecture in Jamaican Creole

12:15-13:00
Tonjes Veenstra
Questions in Creoles: Implications for the Cartographic Approach

Lunch

14:15-15:00
Marlyse Baptista & Miki Obata
Grammaticalization Effects on Complementizers: A Comparative Analysis of Creole
Languages

15:00-15:45
Benjamin Braithwaite
A Formal Account of Adjectives and Verbs in Creole Languages

Tea

16:15-17:15
Hans den Besten
TBA
Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue



Please report any bad links or misclassified data

LINGUIST Homepage | Read LINGUIST | Contact us

NSF Logo

While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed
on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.