Program

 

International Workshop on the

Phonology and Morphology of Creole Languages

October 8-10, 2003, University of Siegen, Germany

 

 

Tuesday, 7 October 2003

19 h     Conference warm-up and registration

 

 

Wednesday, 8 October 2003

10.00

Conference Opening

10.20

Norval Smith & Marleen van de Vate (Amsterdam)

A historical explanation for the difference between English-lexifier creoles with Surinam-type vowel-systems and Jamaican-type vowel systems

10.55

Jean-Louis Rougé & Emmanuel Schang (Orléans)

The status of the liquid consonant in Saotomense

11.30

Thomas B. Klein (Statesboro, GA)

Creole phonology typology: Vowels and consonants

12.05

Coffee Break

12.25

Ingo Plag & Mareile Schramm (Siegen)

The emergence of creole syllable structure: a cross-linguistic survey

13.00

Magnus Huber (Regensburg)

Phonological variation in Ghanaian Pidgin English

L1-influence vs. community norm

13.35

Lunch Break

15.00

J. Verhagen, E. van Lier, S. Dikker, H. Cardoso, J. Arends (Amsterdam)

Morphological richness and formative context of four Romance-based creoles

15.35

Pamela MacDonald (Bangor, GB)

Verb morphology in Indian Ocean Creoles

16.10

Shobha Satyanath (Delhi)

Morphology within and across generations of speakers:

the case of Guyanese Creole English

16.45

Coffee Break

17.05

Nicole Rosen (Toronto)

Stress assignment in Michif

17.40-18.15

Bao Zhimming (Singapore)

Word accentuation in Singapore English

 

 

19.00

Conference Dinner


Thursday, 9 October 2003

9.45

Eric Russell Webb (Western Michigan U)

The naturalness of voice: examples from Negerhollands and Afrikaans

10.20

Emmanuel Nikiema/Parth Bhatt  (Toronto)

R diphthongs in French Lexifier Creoles

10.55

Alain Kihm (Paris)

The phonological origin of language: Creole languages as a testing ground

11.30

Coffee Break

11.50

Stephanie Hackert (Regensburg)

Past Marking in Urban Bahamian Creole English:

From Grammar to Discourse

12.25

Marina Pucciarelli (Loreto, It)

The allomorphs of Nigerian Pidgin third person singular subject pronoun

13.00

Maria Braun (Siegen)

Word-formation and creolization

13.35

Lunch Break

 

 

14.15

Excursion

 

 

Friday, 10 October 2003

9.45

Valeri Khabirov (Ural U)

Changements morphologiques dans le sango creolisé

10.20

Stéphane Goyette (Ottawa)

Haitian derivational morphology : borrowed or inherited?

10.55

Ana Castro & Fernanda Pratas (Lisboa)

Capverdian DP-internal number agreement: additional argumants for a Distributed Morphology Approach

11.30

Coffee Break

11.50

Tonjes Veenstra (Berlin)

Head ordering in synthetic compounds: acquisition processes and grammatical theory

12.25

Paula Prescod (Paris)

Stress assignment and functions of pitch in Vincentian Creole

13.00

Lunch Break

14.30

Yolanda Rivera Castillo & Nicholas Faraclas (Río Piedras, Puerto Rico)

The Emergence of Systems of Lexical and Grammatical Tone and

Stress in Caribbean and West African Creoles

15.05

Susanne Michaelis (Leipzig)

Intonation and clause coordination in Seychelles Creole

15.40

Parth Bhatt & Emmanuel Nikiema (Toronto)

Empty positions in Haitian Creole Syllable Structure

16.15

Book planning session