In addition to the papers listed below, the schedule includes the SPCL business meeting which will occur on Saturday, 5 January, 5:15 PM.
Phonology
9:00 Malcolm A. Finney (CSU-Long Beach): The interplay of lexical tone &
pitch-accent in English-derived & borrowed words in Krio
9:30 Shelome Gooden (OH SU): Reduplication: Symbiosis between prosody &
grammatical structure
10:00 Kenneth Sumbuk (U Papua New Guinea): Phonetic status of /p/ & /f/
in Tok Pisin
Sociolinguistics
9:00 Peter Snow (UCLA): Miscommunicating with tourists on the Panamian Island
of Bastimentos: Language ideologies & patterns of language choice
9:30 Peter L. Patrick (U Essex, England) & Esther Figueroa: The meaning
of kiss-teeth
10:00 Bettina Migge (IEAS-Goethe U, Germany): Social & linguistic practices
in kuutu
10:30 - 10:45 Break
Siberian-Based
Creoles
10:45 Armin Schwegler (UC-Irvine): Reconsidering the evidence: Bare nouns in
Palenquero & what they really mean
11:15 Jorge Porras (Sonoma SU): Temporal distance & discourse reference
in Palenquero
11:45 Betsy Barry (U GA): Functional categories & clausal architecture in
Papiamentu
Varia
1
10:45 Jeffrey Reaser (NC SU): Reexamining isolation within isolation: New evidence
from Abaco Island, The Bahamas
11:15 Arthur Spears (CUNY): Conceptualizing creole grammar in a 'diglossic'
society
11:45 Charles Mann (U Surrey, England): Attitudes towards Anglo-Nigerian pidgin
in urban, southern Nigeria: The generational variable
Creole
Prototypes
2:00 Claire Lefebvre (U Quebec a Montreal): What you see is not always what
you get: Apparent simplicity & hidden complexity in creole languages
2:30 Andrew J. Koontz-Garboden (IN U) & J. Clancy Clements (IN U): Adpositions
in Spanish & Portuguese- based creoles
3:00 Christine Jourdan (Concordia U) & Rachel Selbach (Concordia U): There's
more to bae than meets the eye!
Language
Contact 1
2:00 Angela Bartens (U Helsinki): Language contact & interference on Saint
Andrews, Providence, & Ketlina as preliminaries for the writing of a contrastive
grammar Islander-Caribbean Standard English-Spanish
2:30 Genevieve Escure (U MN-Mpls): Garifuna as contact language
3:00 Phillip Baker (U Westminster, England): Atlantic, Indo-Pacific, & worldwide
features in French-lexicon P/Cs
3:30 - 3:45 Break
Morphology
3:45 Carol Myers-Scotton (U SC) & Janice L. Jake (Midlands Tech C): Testing
the creole system morpheme hypothesis
4:15 Ferdinand Ferriera (U NM): Previous creolization hypothesis in Caribbean
Spanish
4:45 Stephan Matthews (U Hong Kong): The origins of Macanese reduplication
Social
History
3:45 G. Tucker Childs (Portland SU): Further evidence for a Guinea Pidgin French
4:15 Michael J. Aceto (E Carolina U): Statian Creole English: A history with
grammatical features
4:45 George Huttar (SIL, Nairobi Evangelical Grad Sch Theol): Creole genesis:
The nature & use of semantic & lexical evidence
5:15 Valeri Khabirov (Ural Pedagog U, Russia): Growth of the lexicon of the
creolized Lingala & Sango
Phonology
9:00 Jean-Robert Cadely (FL Intnl U): Nasality in Haitian Creole: A process
of linguistic change
9:30 Iskara Iskrova & Albert Valdman (IN U): Phonological constraints &
nasality in Haitian Creole
10:00 Thomas Morton (Penn): Intervocalic /s/ > [r] in Palenquero Spanish
Creole
Development
9:00 Sarah Roberts (Stanford U): The role of identity & style in creole
development: Evidence from Hawaiian Creole
9:30 Fred Field (CSU-Northridge): Presence of superstrate/lexifier & possible
long-term effects on an emerging creole
10:00 Hirokumi Masuda (U HI-Hilo): The proto language hypothesis & superstructure:
A creolistic insight into the language evolution
10:30 - 10:45 Break
Morphosyntax
10:45 Marlyse Baptista (U GA): Cape Verdean Creole as a radically pro-drop language
11:15 Enoch O. Aboh (ACLC-U Amsterdam): Morphosyntax of the left periphery in
Saramaccan & GBE
11:45 Dimitri Hilton (Barry U): Binding theory & the morpheme yo in Haitian
Creole
Acquisition
10:45 Dany Adone (Heinrich-Heine U-Düsseldorf): Double-object constructions
in creole acquisition
11:15 Mary Schmida (UC-Berkeley): Cohorts & creoles, peers & pidgins:
Second language acquisition of linguistic minority students
11:45 R. Raj Mesthrie (U Cape Town, S Africa): Nguni pidgin (Fanakalo) vs Nguni
(Xhosa & Zulu)
Language
Contact 2
2:00 Donald Winford (OH SU): Structural constraints on contact-induced change:
Borrowing vs substratum influence
2:30 Stephane Goyette (LSU): A tale of romance in two far-away lands
3:00 Gillian Sankoff (Penn): Divergence, drift, & substrate: The evolution
of focus in three Pacific creoles
Varia
2
2:00 Nicolas Quint (CNRS) & Malfada Mendes (CNRS): Making the first Standard
Portuguese/Cape Verdean dictionary: A technical & linguistic challenge
2:30 Nicholas Faraclas (U Papua New Guinea): From old New Guinea to Papua New
Guinea: A comparative study of Nigerian pidgin & Tok Pisin
3:00 Frank Martinus (Erasmo C): Unsolved mysteries in Guene, Papiamentu, Sranan,
English, & Dutch nursery rhymes
3:30 - 3:45 Break
African
American Vernacular English
3:45 Walter Edwards (Wayne SU): The provenance of the zero copula in AAVE: A
new pro-creole analysis
4:15 John Rickford and Devyani Sharma (Stanford U): Creole/AAVE copula patterning
as evidence of L2 learning effects?
4:45 Sali Tagliamonte (U Toronto/U York) & Megan Jones (U York): Linguistic
shipwreck? Preverbal do & the Southwest connection revisited
French-Based
Creoles
3:45 Katrin Mutz (U Saarlandes): The expression of reflexivity in 'French-based'
creoles
4:15 Viviane Deprez (Rutgers U): The functional structure of nominal projections
in French lexifier creoles
4:45 David Frank (SIL): The St. Lucian Creole verb phrase