LINGUIST List 4.375

Sun 16 May 1993

Confs: Pidgins & Creoles, WECOL

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1. "Norval Smith, society for pidgin and creole linguistics Amsterdam conference
2. "Vern M. Lindblad", WECOL last call for abstracts

SOCIETY FOR PIDGIN AND CREOLE LINGUISTICS

SCHEDULE for 1993 AMSTERDAM CONFERENCE

Wednesday, June 9, 3:00-6:00 p.m. Registration for conference:
University of Amsterdam, Institute for General Linguistics,
[Instituut voor Algemene Taalwetenschap], Spuistraat 210,
Room 420. (Late registration will be at meeting sites on June
10-12.)

Thursday, June 10: Room D, Bldg. A, Roetersstraat 15

9:00-10:30 Session: Creole genesis: social factors (I)
 Chair: Frank Byrne (U. Amsterdam)

9:00-9:30 Lise Winer (So. Illinois U.): Linguistic data
 from Trinidadian novels, 1838-1907.
9:30-10:00 William Jennings (U. Auckland): The demographics
 of creole genesis: implications of socio-historic
 and population studies from theories of creole
 origin.
10:00-10:30 John Singler (NYU): Primary source evidence as
 to the character of early plantation life in the
 Caribbean: Goupy des Marets' manuscript.

10:30-11:00 COFFEE

11:00-12:30 Session: Creole genesis: social factors (II)
 Chair: Arthur Spears (CUNY)

11:00-11:30 Tom Klinger (Tulane U.): The creole of Pointe
 Coup e Parish, Louisiana.
11:30-12:00 Julianne Maher (Loyola U.): Fisherman, farmers
 and traders: language and economic history in the
 French West Indies.
12:00-12:30 Salikoko S. Mufwene (U. Chicago): Creole genesis:
 a population genetics perspective.

12:30-1:30 LUNCH

1:30-3:00 Session: Creolization processes
 Chair: John Singler (NYU)

1:30-2:00 Philip Baker (London): Creolization and
 directionality: a Mauritian perspective.
2:00-2:30 Alain Kihm (CNRS, Paris): French-Gbe lexical
 conflation in Haitian Creole genesis.
2:30-3:00 John Lumsden (UQAM): Relexification and parameter
 setting in creole genesis.

3:00-3:30 COFFEE & TEA

3:30-5:00 Session: Language mixing
 Chair: Armin Schwegler (U.Cal.-Irvine)

3:30-4:00 Alexander Rusakov (St. Petersburg): To the
 problem of mixed language origin.
4:00-4:30 Jeff Siegel (U. of New England): Levelling and
 pidgin/creole development.
4:30-5:00 Evgeniy Golovko (St. Petersburg): Is typological
 distance relevant to the emergence of contact-
 induced languages.

Thursday, June 10: Room E0003, Bldg. E, Roetersstraat 11

9:00-10:30 Session: Syntax
 Chair: Jacques Arends (U. Amsterdam/Royal
 Dutch Academy of Sciences)

9:00-9:30 Pieter Seuren (U. Nijmegen): Creole languages and
 secondary constructions.
9:30-10:00 John Holm, Dwijen Bhattacharjya, Michel DeGraff,
 Christa de Kleine, Kate Green, Maureen Healy,
 Gerardo Lorenzino, Helliana Mello, Abigail Michel,
 Al Romano (CUNY): Towards an Atlantic Creole
 typology.
10:00-10:30 George Huttar, Mary L. Huttar, Evert D. Koanting
 (SIL): Verbs and adjectives: categories or a
 continuum?

10:30-11:00 COFFEE

11:00-12:30 Session: Reflexives
 Chair: Pieter Muysken (U. Amsterdam/IFOTT)
11:00-11:30 Lilian Adamson (U. Amsterdam/IFOTT): The
 distribution of personal and reflexive pronouns
 in Sranan.
11:30-12:00 Dany Adone (U. Hamburg): Pronouns and reflexives
 in Mauritian Creole today.
12:00-12:30 Jette Bolle & Ellen de Ruiter (U. Amsterdam):
 Saramaccan reflexives.

12:30-1:30 LUNCH

1:30-3:00 Session: TMA markers
 Chair: Peter Roberts (U.W.I.-Barbados)

1:30-2:00 Charles Mann (U. Edinburgh): The tempo-aspectual
 system of Anglo-Nigerian Pidgin.
2:00-2:30 Arthur Spears (CUNY): Subjunctivity and the
 Haitian Creole subjunctive.
2:30-3:00 Kate Howe (U. de Provence): Haitian Creole and
 Papiamentu TMA markers: a comparative study.

3:00-3:30 COFFEE & TEA

3:30-5:00 Session: Predicates
 Chair: Derek Bickerton (U. Hawaii)
3:30-4:00 Daniel Veronique (U. de Provence): Verbal
 clusters in Mauritian Creole.
4:00-4:30 Tonjes Veenstra (U. Amsterdam/HIL): Extraction
 out of serial verb constructions.
4:30-5:00 Michel DeGraff (CUNY): On the event role of
 non-verbal predicates.

Thursday, June 10: Room 203, Bldg. C, Nieuwe Achtergracht 166

9:00-10:30 Session: Semi-Creolization
 Chair: Hans den Besten (U. Amsterdam/HIL)
9:00-9:30 Elda van der Merwe (Vista U.): Orange River
 Afrikaans: post-creole or not?
9:30-10:00 Vincent de Rooij (U. Amsterdam/IFOTT): Shaba
 Swahili: a case of partial creolization caused by
 second language learning strategies
 constraining substratum pressure.
10:00-10:30 Mark Louden (U. Texas-Austin): Is Yiddish a
 creole language?

10:30-11:00 COFFEE

11:00-12:30 Session: Nonstandard Brazilian Portuguese
 Chair: John Holm (CUNY)

11:00-11:30 Alan Baxter (La Trobe U.): Creolization processes
 reflected in the verb system of an Afro-Brazilian
 speech community: elements for the definition of
 a decreolizing grammar.
11:30-12:00 Heliana Mello (CUNY): A comparative
 morphosyntactic study of the restructured
 Portuguese of Africa and Brazil.
12:00-12:30 Glenn Gilbert (So. Illinois U.): Adverbial
 placement in acrolectal convergence creoles.

12:30-1:30 LUNCH

1:30-3:00 Session: Afrikaans (I)
 Chair: Ian Hancock (U. Texas-Austin)

1:30-2:00 Hans den Besten (U. Amsterdam/HIL): The Khoekhoe
 basis for the Afrikaans associative construction.
2:00-2:30 Peter Slomanson (CUNY): On a problem in the
 grammar of Orange River Afrikaans.
2:30-3:00 Dennis Makhudu (U. of the North): The location
 of Flaai-Taal within the Afrikaans creole
 continuum: a different view.

3:00-3:30 COFFEE & TEA

3:30-5:00 Session: Afrikaans (II)
 Chair: Norval Smith (U. Amsterdam/IFOTT)
3:30-4:00 Christa de Kleine (CUNY): The verb phrase in
 Afrikaans: evidence of restructuring.
4:00-4:30 Hester Waher (U. Cape Town): Derivation in a
 variation of pre-standardized Afrikaans.
4:30-5:00 Paul Roberge (U. No. Carolina): On the origin of
 the Afrikaans verbal hendiadys.

Friday, June 11: Room A0008, Oudemanhuispoort 4-6

9:00-10:30 Session: Portuguese and Spanish-based creoles
(I)
 Chair: Alain Kihm (CNRS, Paris)
9:00-9:30 Marike Post (U. Amsterdam/IFOTT): The
 'complementizer' system of relative and
 complement clauses in Fa d'Ambu.
9:30-10:00 Gerardo Lorenzino (CUNY): Creole contact and
 language change on Sao Tome: a structural
 comparison of Angolar and Saotomense.
10:00-10:30 Philippe Maurer (Zrich): TMA in Principense
 (Gulf of Guinea).

10:30-11:00 COFFEE

11:00-12:30 Session: Portuguese and Spanish-based creoles
(II)
 Chair: Philippe Maurer (Zrich)

11:00-11:30 Cristina Albino (U. de Lisboa): The NP reference
 system of the Cape Verde speech community of Alto
 da Cova da Moura, Lisbon.
11:30-12:00 Armin Schwegler (U. California-Irvine): Fifty
 years of Palenquero research: a critical view.
12:00-12:30 Kate Green (CUNY): On the evolution and status of
 the copula in Iberian-based creoles.

12:30-2:00 LUNCH

Friday, June 11: Room C117, Oudemanhuispoort 4-6

9:00-12:30 Session: French-based Creoles
 Chair: Daniel Veronique (U. de Provence)

9:00-9:30 Alexander Hull (Duke U.): The phonology of French
 creoles.
9:30-10:00 Claire Lefebvre (UQAM): Towards a unified
 analysis of predicate doubling phenomena in
 Haitian Creole.
10:00-10:30 Paul Law (UQAM): On resumptive pronouns, the ECP
 and creole genesis.

10:30-11:00 COFFEE

11:00-12:30 Session: Romance-lexicon creoles
 Chair: Pieter Seuren (U. Nijmegen)

11:00-11:30 Karl Gadilii (U. Goteborg): Grammatical variation
 in creole languages of Romance superstratum.
11:30-12:00 Mark Diachkov (Moscow): Uncertainties in
 morphological analysis of some creole words.
12:00-12:30 Michael Aceto (U. Texas-Austin): Searching for
 Saramaccan creole origins: an examination of
 Portuguese-derived lexical correspondence.

12:30-2:00 LUNCH

Friday, June 11: Room D109, Oudemanhuispoort 4-6

9:00-10:30 Session: Pidgins
 Chair: Roger Keesing (McGill U.)

9:00-9:30 Peter Bakker (U. Amsterdam/IFOTT): Pidgins: a
 comparative study.
9:30-10:00 Jonathan Owens (U. Bayreuth): Turku and
 Proto-Sudanic pidgin/creole Arabic.
10:00-10:30 Hein van der Voort (U. Amsterdam/IFOTT): New
 light on Eskimo pidgins.

10:30-11:00 COFFEE

11:00-12:30 Session: Restructured English in the Pacific
 Chair: Philip Baker (London)

11:00-11:30 Sumiko Masaki & Jahyun Suh (CUNY): A comparison
 of the Pidgin English used by Japanese and Koreans
 in Hawaii.
11:30-12:00 Julian Roberts (U. Hawaii): The transformation
 of Hawaiian Plantation Pidgin and the emergence
 of Hawaii Creole English.

12:00-2:00 LUNCH

Friday, June 11: Room D109, Oudemanhuispoort 4-6

2:00-5:00 Plenary session on "Pidgins versus Creoles"
 Chair: Salikoko Mufwene (U. Chicago)

2:00-2:30 Derek Bickerton (U. Hawaii):
2:30-3:00 Ian Hancock (U. Texas-Austin): Degrees of
 creoleness.
3:00-3:30 Roger Keesing (McGill U.):

3:30-4:00 COFFEE & TEA

4:00-4:30 William Samarin (U. Toronto): The creolization of
 pidgin morphophonology.

4:30-5:00 General Discussion

5:00-6:00 Room D109, Oudemanhuispoort 4-6

 Business Meeting

6:30-12:00 Buffet Supper on board "Das Narrenschiff" ship
 docked on Sumatrakade in Havens Oost. (Bus 28 from
 Central Station to Levantkade; walk 2 minutes
 north.)

Saturday, June 12: Room C017, Oudemanhuispoort 4-6

9:30-12:30 Workshop on creole studies and historical
 linguistics
 Chair: George Huttar (SIL)

9:30-10:00 Peter Stein (U. Regensburg): The first dictionary
 of a creole language: Oldendorp's
 Deutsch-criolisches Woerterbuch.
10:00-10:30 Frans Hinskens (U. Nijmegen) & Cefas van Rossem
 (U. Amsterdam/IFOTT): The Negerhollands word
 sender in eighteenth century manuscripts.

10:30-11:00 COFFEE

11:00-11:30 Jacques Arends (U. Amsterdam/Koninklyke
 Nederlandse Academie voor Wetenschappen): 'Maroon
 letters' from Saramaka (1781-1818): a linguistic
 profile.
11:30-12:00 Adrienne Bruyn (U. Amsterdam/IFOTT): Prepositional
 phrases in early Sranan.
12:00-12:30 Norval Smith (U. Amsterdam/IFOTT): Optional
 liquids in Kwinti? A link with East Surinam Maroon
 Creoles.

Saturday, June 12: Room C217, Oudemanhuispoort 4-6

9:30-11:30 Workshop on creole writing in education and
 literature
 Chair: Glenn Gilbert (So. Illinois U.)

9:30-10:00 Peter Roberts (U. West Indies-Barbados):
10:00-10:30 Jeff Siegel (U. New England): Pidgins and creoles
 in education: an update.

10:30-11:00 COFFEE

11:00-11:30 Abigail Michel (CUNY): Towards a new orthography
 for Papiamentu: balancing tradition and logic.

 W E C O L X X I I I
 U n i v e r s i t y o f W a s h i n g to n
 Seattle, Washington
 October 22-24, 1993

SPECIAL THEME: THEORETICAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES

INVITED SPEAKERS: EMMON BACH, MARK BAKER, AND PATRICIA SHAW

Subject to funding, we also hope to have invited speakers in the areas of
phonetics, syntax, and historical linguistics/language classification in
relation to the special theme.

REMINDER: LAST CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Abstracts may be submitted in any area of linguistics. Presented papers
will be twenty minutes long followed by a five-minute question period.
Send five anonymous copies of a one page abstract (references may be on a
separate page) accompanied by a 3x5 card containing name, paper title,
institution, addresses (both e- and snail-mail) to: WECOL, Dept. of
Linguistics, GN-40, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195.
No e-mail abstracts, please.

Abstracts due June 1, 1993
Abstract decisions announced July 22, 1993
Proceedings published early 1994 (details provided at the conf.)

A limited amount of on campus housing will be available. For more
information, write to WECOL at above address or send e-mail to
wecolu.washington.edu.