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SPCL/LSA 2005 OAKLAND, CA 7-8 January 2005
FRIDAY 7 January 2005 - MORNING 1A [LSA 56] Models of creolization chair: Adrienne Bruyn (Radboud University Nijmegen) 9:00 - 9:30 Carol Myers-Scotton (University of South Carolina): The grammatical abruptness of language shift: Why creolists should care 930 - 10:00 Kenny Smith (University of Edinburgh): Understanding mechanisms of creolization through computational modeling 10:00 - 10:30 Patrick-Andre Mather (Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras): Re-examining the Relexification hypothesis and the Bioprogram hypothesis in terms of E-creolization 1B [LSA 57] Prosody chair: Rocky Meade (University of the West Indies, Mona) 9:30 - 10:00 Shelome Gooden (University of Pittsburgh): Creole prosody in the 1960s: An early analysis revisited 10:00 - 10:30 Mark Evans (Reed College): Rhythmic asymmetry in the prosody of cross-varietal Englishes 10:30 - 10: 50 Break 2A [LSA 58] Sociolinguistic contexts chair: Bettina Migge (University College Dublin) 10:50 - 11:20 [withdrawn] 11:20 - 11:50 Ronald Kephart (University of North Florida): Ecology of Creole French on Carriacou 2B [LSA 59] Phonology in contact chair: Shelome Gooden (University of Pittsburgh) 10:50 - 11:20 Yuchau E. Hsiao, Keng-Chang Wu & Yi-Wen Chen (National Chengchi University, Taipei): Phonological influences: Taiwanese-Mandarin and Mandarin-Taiwanese 11:20 - 11:50 Malcolm A. Finney (California State University, Long Beach): The effects of universals on the syllable structure of Krio 11:50 - 2:00 break [12:30 LSA Plenary: Victor Golla] FRIDAY 7 January 2005 - AFTERNOON 3A [LSA 60] Creolization and convergence in South Asia chair: Armin Schwegler (University of California, Irvine) 2:00 - 2:30 Tripti Karekatti (Shivaji University, Kohapur): Revisiting Kupwar: Language convergence and creolization in Karnataka-Maharashtra border villages 2:30 - 3:00 Stephane Goyette (University of Ottawa): From Sanskrit to Marathi: A case of creolization? 3:00 - 3:30 Scott Paauw (State University of New York, Buffalo): A historical analysis of the lexicon of Sri Lanka Malay 3B [LSA 61] Substrate and innovation in the Suriname creoles chair: David Sutcliffe (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) 2:00 - 2:30 Marvin Kramer (Dharma Realm Buddhist University): Innovative and transferred tone spread rules in Saramaccan serial verbs 2:30 - 3:00 Claire Lefebvre (Universite du Quebec, Montreal): More on the properties of Saramaccan taa and related lexical items 3:00 - 3:30 Adrienne Bruyn (Radboud University Nijmegen): Attributive possession in the Suriname creoles: A diachronic-comparative perspective 3:30 - 3:50 Break 3A 4A [LSA 62] Spanish in Cuba chair: Jorge E. Porras (Sonoma State University) 3:50 - 4:20 Armin Schwegler (University of California, Irvine): Habla bozal: Captivating new evidence from a contemporary source (Afro-Cuban Palero “priests” in trance) 4:20 - 4:50 J. Clancy Clements & Stuart Davis (Indiana University): New evidence on the nature of Bozal Spanish in 19th century Cuba 4:50 - 5:20 Don E. Walicek (University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras): Chinese-Cuban Pidgin Spanish in sociohistorical context 4B [LSA 63] Tense-Mood-Aspect chair: Dany Adone (Heinrich-Heine-Universitat Dusseldorf) 3:50 - 4:20 Joao Costa & Fernanda Pratas (Universidade Nova de Lisboa): TMA and adverbs are not a reliable diagnosis for a rich functional domain:Evidence from Capeverdean 4:20 - 4:50 Aya Inoue (University of Hawai'i, Manoa): A quantitative study of the past tense reference in Hawai'i Creole English [5:30 LSA Business Meeting; 7:30 LSA Plenary: Penny Eckert] SATURDAY 8 January 2005 - MORNING 5A [LSA 64] Issues of “creoleness” chair: Fred Field (California State University, Northridge) 9:00 - 9:30 David Sutcliffe (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) & Yolanda McClung (Independent Reseacher): What they been know about AAE in Mississippi: The testimony of the ancestors 9:30 - 10:00 Patrick Steinkruger (ZAS, Berlin): The creole character of Chabacano 10:00 - 10:30 Ian Smith (York University): (Re)conceptualizing the creole (and pidgin) prototype 5B [LSA 65] Grammaticalization, markedness and substrate chair: J. Clancy Clements (Indiana University) 9:00 - 9:30 Stephen Matthews (University of Hong Kong) & Virginia Yip (Chinese University of Hong Kong): Contact-induced grammaticalization in early bilingual development: The case of one-relatives 9:30 - 10:00 Bao Zhiming (National University of Singapore): Markedness in creole genesis 10:00 - 10:30 Kenneth M. Sumbuk (University of Papua New Guinea): The substrate element of verbal reduplication in Melanesian Pidgin 10:30 - 10: 45 Break 6A [LSA 66] Identity and language choice chair: Carol Myers-Scotton (University of South Carolina) 10:45 - 11:15 Jessica White (University of Texas, Austin): A sociohistorical account of women and linguistic choice in creole genesis 11:15 - 11:45 Bettina Migge (University College Dublin): Bilingual speech in the Eastern Maroon community 11:45 - 12:15 Lars Hinrichs (Freiburg University): Traditionally oral languages in the New Media: Changing functions of Jamaican Creole 6B [LSA 67] Morpho-syntax chair: Claire Lefebvre (Universite du Quebec, Montreal) 10:45 - 11:15 Dany Adone & Christian Horn (Heinrich-Heine-Universitat Dusseldorf): Compounds in Indian Ocean Creoles: Morphology or syntax? 11:15 - 11:45 Marco Nicolis (Universita di Siena): Free Inversion, that-t effects, pro-drop: A view from Creoles 11:45 - 12:15 Maria Alexandra Fieis & Fernanda Pratas (Universidade Nova de Lisboa): Reflexivity in Capeverdean: Predicate properties and sentence structure 12:15 - 2:00 Break [12:30 LSA Plenary: George Lakoff] SATURDAY 8 January 2005 - AFTERNOON 7 [LSA 68] Pragmatic aspects of linguistic categories chair: Tometro Hopkins (Florida International University) 2:00 - 2:30 Jorge E. Porras (Sonoma State University): Discourse markers and oral narrative in Afro-Iberian Creoles: A semantic, pragmatic, and textual analysis 2:30 - 3:00 Lise M. Dobrin (University of Virginia): What really distinguishes yumi and mipela? The feature [social contrast] in Tok Pisin 3:00 - 3:20 Break 3:20 - 5:00 SPCL Business Meeting [5:30 LSA Presidential Address: Joan Bybee] 19:30 SPCL Dinner
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