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SPCL/LSA 2004, Boston, MA
9-10 January 2004
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Meeting in conjunction with the 78th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic society of America (http://www.lsadc.org/info/pdf_files/2004meet.pdf)
Friday, January 9
SPCL 1: Substrate in the Suriname creoles LSA 42
Chair: Tometro Hopkins (Florida International U)
Room: Fairfax A
9:00 George L. Huttar (Nairobi Evangelical Grad Sch of Theology), James Essegbey
(Leiden U) & Felix Ameka (Leiden U): Suriname creole semantic structures from
West Africa: Gbe and other sources
9:30 Bettina Migge (J.W. Goethe U): Modality in the creoles of Suriname and Gbe: An assessment
of similarities and differences
10:00 - 10:20 BREAK
SPCL 2A: Suriname continued: substrate & early evidence LSA 43
Chair: Peter Bakker (Aarhus U)
Room: Fairfax A
10:20 Norval Smith (U Amsterdam): A case of creole substrate allophony 350 years on
10:50 Marvin Kramer: The late transfer of serial verb constructions as stylistic variants
in Saramaccan creole
11:20 Margot van den Berg & Jacques Arends (U Amsterdam): A complement to complementation
in early Sranan and Saramaccan
SPCL 2B: Morphosyntax I LSA 44
Chair: Dany Adone (Heinrich Heine U)
Room: Gardner
10:20 Daniel Chapuis (William Paterson U): Malagasy origins of the paratactic possessive in the vernacular lects of R�union
10:50 Fernanda Ferreira (Bridgewater State Coll): Pluralization strategies in Cape Verdean Creole and Brazilian Portuguese: a variationist approach
11:20 Fernanda Pratas (U Nova de Lisboa): The pro-drop status: evidence from Cape Verdean
11:50 - 2:00 BREAK [12:30 LSA Plenary: Morris Halle]
SPCL 3A: Morphosyntax II LSA 45
Chair: Rocky Meade (U West Indies, Mona)
Room: Fairfax A
2:00 Stephanie Durrleman (U Geneva): The syntax of topics, foci & interrogatives in Jamaican Creole
2:30 Vanessa Armoogum (U Paris 8): Copula in Mauritian Creole
3:00 Dany Adone (Heinrich Heine U): Creole passives
3:30 Tonjes Veenstra (FU Berlin): Towards a cross-creole cartography of subject clitics
SPCL 3B: Varieties of English: discourse, features & connections LSA 46
Chair: Sarah Roberts (Stanford U)
Room: Gardner
2:00 Peter Snow (U California, Los Angeles): The use of �bad� language as a politeness strategy in a Panamanian Creole community
2:30 Michael Aceto (East Carolina U): Kokoy: Dominica�s third creole language
3:00 Fred Field (California State U, Northridge): Connections: creoles and non-standard dialects
4:00 - 4:20 BREAK
SPCL 4: Transfer and restructuring LSA 47
Chair: George Huttar (Nairobi Evangelical Grad Sch of Theology)
Room: Fairfax A
4:20 Miriam Meyerhoff (U Edinburgh): To have and to hold: the transfer of (in)alienable possession across linguistic domains
4:50 Donald Winford (Ohio State U): Re-examining relexification in creole formation
5:30 LSA Business Meeting; 7:30 LSA Plenary: Noam Chomsky
Saturday, January 10
SPCL 5: Morphology LSA 48
Chair: Don Winford (Ohio State U)
Room: Fairfax A
9:00 Marlyse Baptista (U Georgia): A contrastive study of Cape Verdean dialects: the properties of inflectional and derivational morphology 9:30 Anne-Marie Brousseau & Emmanuel Nikiema (U Toronto): Another look at derivational morphology: new data from St. Lucian
10:00 - 10:20 BREAK
SPCL 6A: (Non)instances of pidginization/creolization LSA 49
Chair: Miriam Meyerhoff (U Edinburgh)
Room: Fairfax A
10:20 Armin Schwegler (U California, Irvine): (Afro-)Cuban Palo Monte ritual language: a creole?
10:50 St�phane Goyette: A pidgin past for Proto-Germanic?
11:20 Manuel Diaz-Campos & Clancy Clements (Indiana U): Mainland Spanish colonies and creole genesis: the Afro-Venezuelan area revisited
SPCL 6B: Phonology LSA 50
Chair: Norval Smith (U Amsterdam)
Room: Gardner
10:20 Rocky R. Meade (U West Indies, Mona): Toward a reanalysis of sub-segmental feature representation
10:50 Emmanuel Nikiema & Anne-Marie Brousseau (U Toronto): Phonological relatedness and word final consonants in St. Lucian
11:50 - 2:00 BREAK [12:30 LSA Plenary: Judith Kegl]
SPCL 7A: Tense - Aspect - Modality LSA 51
Chair: Bettina Migge (J.W. Goethe U)
Room: Fairfax A
2:00 Yolanda Rivera Castillo, Nicholas Faraclas & Don Walicek (U Puerto Rico): No exception to the rule: the tense-aspect-modality system of Papiamentu reconsidered
2:30 Tara Sanchez (U Pennsylvania): Use of the progressive morpheme in the spoken Papiamento of Aruba
3:00 Jack Sidnell (U Toronto / Northwestern U) & James A. Walker (York U): Tense and aspect in Bequia
SPCL 7B: Creoles in contact LSA 52
Chair: Fred Field (California State U, Northridge)
Room: Gardner
2:00 Elizabeth Grace Winkler (U Arizona): Structural borrowing in Limonese Creole English
2:30 Ana Josefa Cardoso (U Aberta): Some effects of the contact between Capeverdean as the mother tongue and Portuguese as the official language
3:00 - 3:50 BREAK
SPCL 8A: Sociolinguistic contexts LSA 53
Chair: Marlyse Baptista (U Georgia)
Room: Fairfax A
3:50 Tom Klingler & Nathalie Dajko (Tulane U): Vestigial French in three Louisiana parishes
4:20 G. Tucker Childs (Portland State U): The creativity of a pidgin: the South African varieties Isicamtho and Tsotsitaal
4:50 Sarah Roberts (Stanford U): The significance of the urban context to the formation of Hawaiian Creole
SPCL 8B: Varieties of Malay LSA 54
Chair: Clancy Clements (Indiana U)
Room: Gardner
3:50 Peter Bakker (Aarhus U): Bazaar Malay and Baba Malay: is there a connection?
4:20 an Smith & Scott Paauw (York U): Sri Lanka Malay: creole or convert?
5:30 LSA Presidential Address: Ray Jackendoff
7:30 SPCL BANQUET
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