In addition to the papers listed below, the schedule includes the SPCL business meeting which will occur on Saturday, 6 January, 3:45 PM.
Creole Tone Phonology
9:00: Shelome Gooden (OH SU): The role of 'tone' in Jamaican Creole reduplication
9:30: Laurence Goury (Inst Recherche & Dev, Paris): Synchronical & diachronical aspects of tonology in Ndjuka
10:00: Yolanda Rivera-Castillo (U AL-Tuscaloosa): Tone shifting & syntax in two Atlantic creoles
Acquisition
10:45: Emmanuel Nikiema (U Toronto): The syllabification of consonant clusters in Caribbean French-based creoles
11:15: Rocky Meade (U Amsterdam): OT & the acquisition of Jamaican syllable structure
11:45: Mary Schmida (UC-Berkeley): 'Yo quiero Taco Bell': Language acquisition of linguistic minority students
Developmental Models
10:45: Clancy Clements (IN U): L2 interlanguage formation & pidginization
11:15: Frank Martinus (K. Erasmo, Curaçao): Two parameterized models of universal grammar
11:45: Armin Schwegler (UC-Irvine): On the (African) origins of Palenquero subject pronouns
Syntax
2:00: Viviane Deprez (Rutgers U): Constraints on the meanings of bare nouns: A comparative study of Haitian & Cape Verdean Creole
2:30: Tjerk Hagemeijer (U Lisbon): Aspects of negation in the Gulf of Guinea creoles
3:00: Tonyes Veenstra (Free U, Berlin): How to decide when a verb is a verb
Variation
2:00: John Lipski (PA SU): On the source of the infinitive in Romance derived pidgins & creoles
2:30: Srecko Ivanisevic (U Zagreb): Lingua franca revisited
3:00: Tom Klingler (Tulane U): Louisiana creole & the continuum model
Creole & Identity
3:45: Anita Herzfeld (U KS): The Limonese Calypso as an identity marker
4:15: Michael Aceto (E Carolina U): Dual identities & names in Anglophone Afro-Caribbean communities in Latin America
4:45: Charles Mann (U Surrey): The sociocommunicational need hypothesis: An elaboration
Interface
3:45: Suzanne Lyon (UC-Santa Cruz): Lexically-selected vs discourse controlled subjunctivity in Haitian Creole
4:15: Arthur Spears (City C-CUNY): Serial verb-like constructions in African American English
4:45: Betsy Barry (U GA): Tense-aspect markers in Papiamentu & the syntax pragmatics interface
Discourse
9:00: Peter Snow (UCLA): Understanding 'overstanding': Negotiating comprehension in a Jamaican radio interview
9:30: Hirokuni Masuda (U HI-Hilo): Micro-syntax & macro-discourse in Hawaiian creole
10:00: Kenneth Sumbuk (U Papua New Guinea): Referentiality & anaphora: A case for Tok Pisin
Language Contact
9:00: Wei Run Ling (Ntl U Singapore): Language contact & the passive in Mandarin
9:30: Marlyse Baptista (U GA): Reflexivity strategies in creoles: A typological & syntactic treatment
10:00: Stephane Goyette (U Ottawa): Creoles of Arabia
Social Aspects
10:45: Julianne Maher (Wheeling Jesuit U): The de-cline of grammaticalization: St. Barth Patois & the actuation riddle
11:15: Paul Garrett (CSU-Long Beach): 'Say it like you see it': Creole on the airwaves in St. Lucia
11:45: Alex-Louise Tessonneau (U Paris VIII): Aspects sociaux du crŽole en France MŽtropolitaine
Sociohistorical Sources
10:45: David Sutcliffe (U P Fabra, Barcelona) & Laura Wright (Lucy Cavendish C, Cambridge): Unexpected though it be: Reflexes of English & African subjunctives in earlier African American Vernacular English
11:15: Jacques Arends (U Amsterdam) & Margot Van den Berg (U Amsterdam): Court records as a source of authentic early Sranan
11:45: Ian Robertson (U West Indies, Trinidad): Documents on Essequibo (Skepi) Dutch: The contributions of Rev. Thomas Youd
African Contact Varieties
2:00: Valeri Khabirov (Ural SU, Ekaterinburg): The enrichment of the creolized Lingala
2:30: Caroline Aubry (U Montreal): The origin of Fanagalo reconsidered through its grammar & its lexicon
3:00: William Samarin (U Toronto): A text-critical reconstruction of Kituba's origins: The theoretical implications of pidgin historiography