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SPCL Summer 2003, Honolulu, Hawaii

14-17August 2003

 

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Meeting in conjunction with the University of Hawaii


Wednesday, August 13
4:30�6:30 Registration (Lanai)

Thursday, August 14

8:00�9:00 Registration/Breakfast (Lanai)

9:00�10:00 Opening (Keoni Auditorium): Hawaiian Chant (Lokomaika�i); welcome presentation; address by Glenn Gilber

10:00-10:30 Break (refreshments on Lanai)

Session 1A (Kaniela Room): Variation

10:30�11:00 Dagmar Deuber: Aspects of variation in educated Nigerian Pidgin: Verbal structures
11:00�11:30 Adam B. Paliwala: Three Types of creole/superstrate code mixing in Tok Pisin
11:30-12:00 Alison Irvine: Rethinking the notion of acrolect: Evidence from Jamaica


Session 1B (Sarimanok Room): Historical/Descriptive 1

10:30�11:00 Sarah J. Roberts: Viper Pidgin, good English, and the language of the enemy: Language ideology in Territorial Hawai�i
11:00-11:30 Laura Wright: Black Speakers on the Island of St Helena, 1695-1711
11:30-12:00 Emmanuel J. Drechsel: Towards an ethnohistory of pidgins: Colonial documents as hostile witnesses

12:00�2:00 Lunch (Wailana � Ground Floor)

1:00�2:00 Introduction to Pidgin (Hawai�i Creole) by Kent Sakoda and others (Kaniela Room)


Session 2A (Kaniela Room): Applied/Educational 1

2:00�2:30 Janet L. Donnelly: Bahamian Creole English: Orthographic representations
2:30-3:00 Eileen H. Tamura: AAVE and HCE: Comparative history of educational debates with policy implications
3:00-3:30 John Baugh: Pidgin and creole educational policies in the wake of the Ebonics controversy


Session 2B (Sarimanok Room): Historical/Descriptive 2

2:00�2:30 Armin Schwegler: On the recent discovery of a possible Afro-Cuban creole: Further remarks on Palo Monte (restructured Kikongo) ritual speech
2:30-3:00 Susanne M�hleisen: Emil Schw�rer's Kolonialdeutsch (1916): A historical note on a planned pidgin German
3:00-3:30 Aya Inoue: Sociolinguistic history and linguistic features of pidginized Japanese in Yokohama


Session 2C (Pago-Pago Room): Semantics

2:00�2:30 Marlyse Baptista: The Cape Verdean NP in the Sotavento varieties
2:30-3:00 Dany Adone: Conceptual categories in a French-based creole
3:00-3:30 Karl Gadelii: The un-Frenchness of Lesser Antillean sa

3:30-4:00 Break (refreshments in upstairs corridor)


Session 3A (Kaniela Room): Educational 2

4:00-4:30 Joyce Hudson & Rosalind Berry: The FELIKS approach to teaching Standard English
4:30-5:00 Ronald C. Morren: Creole trilingual education - San Andres Island, Caribbean


Session 3B (Sarimanok Room): Historical/Descriptive 3

4:00-4:30 Seiji Fakazawa & Mira Hiramoto: Chuugoku dialect terms that remain in Hawai�i Creole English (Hawai ni nokoru Chuugoku-ben)
4:30-5:00 Maria M.P. Scherre & Anthony.J. Nero: Still prospecting: More on the structural origins of Brazilian Portuguese


Session 3C (Pago-Pago Room): Substrate influence 1

4:00-4:30 Peter Slomanson: A Sri Lanka Malay grammar with VO predicates
4:30-5:00 Claire Lefebvre: Can Saramaccan functional categories be derived from a relexification account of creole genesis?


5:30-6:30 Entertainment (Keoni Auditorium)
- Readings by Lee Tonouchi (�Da Pidgin Guerrilla�)
- Performance of traditional hula by Halau Mohala Ilima


6:30-8:00 Reception and Book Launching (Lanai)
- Pidgin Grammar: An Introduction to the Creole Language of Hawai�i by Kent Sakoda and Jeff Siegel)
- At Home the Green Remains: Caribbean Writing in Honour of John Figueroa edited by
   Esther Figueroa


Friday, August 15

8:00�9:00 Breakfast (Lanai)

9:00�10:00 Plenary 1 (Keoni Auditorium): Kenneth Sumbuk "Current status of Tok Pisin: Its influence on Papua New Guinea languages"

10:00-10:30 Break (refreshments on Lanai)


Session 4A (Kaniela Room): Substrate influence 1

10:30�11:00 J. Essegbey & Adrienne Bruyn: The use of ini in Sranan
11:00�11:30 Jennifer M. Munro: Morpho-syntactic substrate influences in Australian Kriol
11:30-12:00 Gillian Sankoff: Substrate effects in Tok Pisin modals


Session 4B (Sarimanok Room): Applied/Methodological

10:30�11:00 Charles Mann: Anglo-Nigerian Pidgin in the marketplace in urban, northern Nigeria: Use, functions and attitudes
11:00-11:30 Paul Wexler: The advantages of a blockage-based etymological dictionary for suspected or proven creole and non-creole relexified languages. (Extrapolating from the Yiddish experience)
11:30-12:00 Cati Brown & Joe McFall: Computer modeling in pidgin and creole genesis research


Session 4C (Pago-Pago Room): Special Session on Pidgins/Creoles and �Language Analysis�

10:30�11:00 Jacques Arends: On the use of �language analysis� in asylum applications made by West Africans in the Netherlands
11:00-12:00 Discussants: John V. Singler and Diana Eades followed by General Discussion



12:00-6:30 Field trip to Plantation Village and the North Shore

Saturday, August 16

8:00�9:00 Breakfast (Lanai)

9:00�10:00 Plenary 2 (Keoni Auditorium): Barbara Lalla "Creole dimensions of development in Caribbean literary discourse"

10:00-10:30 Break (refreshments on Lanai)


Session 5A (Kaniela Room)

10:30�12:00 Panel on Pidgin literature in Hawai�i: �Inscribing the Local: Pidgin as a Literary Project�
Speakers: Lisa Lynn Kanae, Susan Schultz, Richard Nettell, Gary Pak


Session 5B (Pago-Pago Room): Morphosyntax 1

10:30�11:00 Chris Collins: A fresh look at habitual be in AAVE
11:00-11:30 Arthur J. Bell: Bipartite negation, creoles, and UG
11:30-12:00 John McWhorter: Born yesterday and on the ground running: Saramaccan as complex yet identifiably young

12:00�2:00 Lunch (Wailana � Ground Floor)

1:00�2:00 Readings by members of Bamboo Ridge Press (Keoni Auditorium)


Session 6A (Kaniela Room): Colloquium on Creole Literature

2:00�2:30 Ana Deumert: Praatjies and Boerenbrieven: Popular literature as an instrument of normalization and standardization in the history of Afrikaans
2:30-3:00 Barbara Lalla: Representation and respect: Creole status and Caribbean literature
3:00-3:30 Timo Lothmann: On functional equivalence: some aspects from the Tok Pisin Bible translation


Session 6B (Sarimanok Room): Acquisition/transmission 1

2:00�2:30 Ana Deumert: Praatjies and Boerenbrieven - Popular literature as an instrument of normalization and standardization in the history of Afrikaans
2:30-3:00 Sabine Ehrhart: Pidginization and creolization in the general context of language acquisition � what creolists and acquisitionists can learn from each other
3:00-3:30 Stephen Matthews & Virginia Yip: Bilingual first language acquisition and the mechanisms of substrate influence


Session 6C (Pago-Pago Room): Morphosyntax 2

2:00�2:30Jorge E. Porras: Temporal frames in narrative discourse: A comparative analysis of three Afro-Iberian creoles
2:30-3:00 Stephanie Durrleman: The articulation of inflection in Jamaican Creole
3:00-3:30 Stephanie Hackert: Oral narrative and tense in urban Bahamian Creole English

3:30-4:00 Break (refreshments in upstairs corridor)


Session 7A (Kaniela Room): Colloquium on Creole Literature 1

4:00-4:30 Suzanne Romaine: Orthographic practices in Da Jesus Book. Hawai�i Pidgin New Testament: How dey wen figga um out?
4:30-5:00 Peter Patrick: TBA


Session 7B (Sarimanok Room): Acquisition/transmission 2

4:00-4:30 Michel DeGraff: �Creolization� is acquisition
4:30-5:00 Anthony J. Nero & Maria M.P. Scherre: The concept of irregular linguistic transmission and the structural origins of Brazilian Portuguese


Session 7C (Pago-Pago Room): Morphosyntax 3

4:00-4:30 Dany Adone: Reduplication in creoles and sign languages
4:30-5:00 Valeri Khabirov: Morphological changes in the creolized Sango

7:15-9:30 Conference dinner (Sheraton Waikiki Resort)

Sunday, August 17

8:00�9:00 Breakfast (Lanai)

9:00�9:40 Plenary 3 (Keoni Auditorium): Derek Bickerton"Refuting the Bioprogram is easy..."

Special session (Keoni Auditoriaum):Colloquium on Derek Bickerton�s Contributions to Creolistics and Related Fields

9:40-10:10 Genevieve Escure: Bickerton and lectal dynamics
10:10-10:40 Salikoko S. Mufwene: The development of creoles in Hawai�i and the Caribbean: How similar were the ecologies?

10:40�11:00Break (refreshments on Lanai)


Special session, continued (Keoni Auditoriaum)

11:00-11:30 John Schumann: Language evolution
11:30-12:00 John Victor Singler: The Language Bioprogram Hypothesis and history
12:00-12:20 Reply by Derek Bickerton
12:20�12:45 General discussion

 

 

 

 

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