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Conference
Creole language structure
between substrates and superstrates


Leipzig (Germany), 3-5 June 2005

   
 

List of Participants and Titles

 
 
The abstracts for the conference are downloadable here (pdf.files):
 
 
Plenary talks:
Philip Baker
(University of Westminster/ Sri Lanka)
Between and beyond substrates and superstrates.
Claire Lefebvre
(Université du Québec à Montréal)
The Principled Respective Contribution to Creole Languages of their Substrates and Superstrate(s).
Ingo Plag
(University of Siegen)
Creoles as interlanguages: Old fallacies and new insights concerning the role of substrate and superstrate in creole genesis
 
Session talks:
Aboh, Enoch Oladé
(University of Amsterdam)
Pattern and feature competition: Toward a syntactic account to contact-induced transfer.
Ansaldo, Umberto
(University of Amsterdam)
Perspectives on admixture and creolization. Elaboration of case in Kirinda Java.
Armstrong, Clifton
(University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras)
Creolistics, second language acquisition research, and distinguishing the influences of language universals, superstrate and substrate on creole syllable structure.
Bao, Zhiming
(National University of Singapore)
Unproductive substrate features.
Beld, Tony
(University of New Orleans)
NegP: lexicalization -vs- grammaticalization in Louisiana Creole.
Braun, Maria
(University of Siegen)
Where from do creole languages get their word-formation resources? The case of Early Sranan.
Brousseau, Anne-Marie
(University of Toronto)
Derivational morphology in St.Lucian: the early emergence of a mixed system.
Clements, Clancy
(Indiana University Bloomington)
Living language-contact varieties as windows into the formation of pidgins and creoles.
den Besten, Hans
(University of Amsterdam)
Pre-nominal possessives in three types of Afrikaans.
Deprez, Vivianne
(Rutgers University, New Jersey & ISC (CNRS))
Nominal Constituents in French Lexifier Creoles: probing the structuring role of grammaticalization.
Ehrhart, Sabine
(Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg & Université Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle)
The influence of substrate and superstrate in the case of two South Pacific Creole Languages: Tayo in New Caledonia and Palmerston English in the Cook Islands
Faraclas, Nicholas
(Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras)
Taking A Broader View of the Substrate: The Problematic Search for 'The One and Only' Substrate Source for Linguistic Features in Creole Languages.
Gadelii, Karl Erland
(University of Göteborgs, Sweden)
Predicative constructions in French creoles.
Gil, David
(Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)
Creoles and Complexity: A Cross-Linguistic Experiment.
Goury, Laurence and Migge, Bettina
(Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement, Paris; University College Dublin & CELIA )
Towards a multi-perspective approach to the origin of Surinamese Creole TMA systems.
Grant, Anthony
Lancaster University
Superficial versus substantive creolisation: the case of the chamic languages.
Gueldemann, Tom
(Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)
The alleged grammaticalization of quotative~complementizers in Atlantic creoles: a West African substrate perspective.
Guillemin, Diana
(University of Queensland)
A look at so in Mauritian Creole: From possessive pronoun to emphatic determiner.
Hagemeijer, Tjerk
(University of Lisbon)
The origins of serialization in the Gulf of Guinea creoles.
Holm, John and Luís, Ana R.
(University of Coimbra, Portugal)
Superstrate Inflections in the Portuguese-Based Creoles and the Nature of Creolization.
Huber, Magnus
(Universität Gießen)
The role of West African adstrates in the origin and development of Atlantic English Creoles.
Intumbo, Incanha
(University of Coimbra, Portugal)
Guiné-Bissau Creole Portuguese, its superstrate and a substrate:a comparison of the structure of the noun phrase.
Kortmann, Bernd and Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt
(Universität Freiburg)
The quest for angloversals and vernacular universals in English-based Pidgins and Creoles.
Kouwenberg, Silvia
(University of the West Indies)
The problem of multiple substrates: the case of Jamaican Creole.
Kriegel, Sibylle and Ludwig, Ralph and Henri, Fabiola
(Université de Provence; Universität Halle-Wittenberg; University of Mauritius)
Coding ablative in Mauritian Creole.
Matthews, Stephen and Smith, Geoff P.
(University of Hong Kong)
Substrate influence as reflected in Chinese and English sources for China Coast Pidgin.
Maurer, Philippe
(Universität Zürich)
The tonal behaviour of disyllabic nouns in Santomense.
McConvell, Patrick and Meakins, Felicity and O'Shannessy, Carmel
(AIATSIS; University of Melbourne; University of Sydney & Max-Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen)
Kriol and mixed languages in Australia: constraining substrate and superstrate explanations of emergent structures.
McWhorter, John
(UC Berkeley / Manhattan Institute)
Revisiting the Creole Prototype: Signs of antiquity in older languages.
Michaelis, Susanne
(Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)
Valency patterns in Seychelles Creole: Where do they come from?
Mühlhäusler, Peter
(University of Adelaide)
Categorial Multifunctionality in Pitkern - Norfuk and Tok Pisin.
Neumann-Holzschuh, Ingrid
(Universität Regensburg)
A la recherche du "superstrat". What Overseas French can and cannot tell us about the input to creolization.
Papen, Robert A.
(L'Université du Québec à Montréal)
Bilingual mixed languages: Are their phonologies mixed or not? The case of Michif.
Prescod, Paula
(Université Paris III)
The formation of deverbal nouns in Vincentian creole: morphological and phonological processes.
Rivera Castillo, Yolanda
(University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras)
Vino viejo en odres nuevos"(old wine in new wineskin): Vowel Harmony in Creoles and Language Convergence.
Roberge, Paul T.
(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
What goes on 'between superstrates and substrates' in creole formation?
Rubino, Carl
(Washington DC)
Zamboangueño Chavacano and the Potentive Mode: A Corpus-based Study.
Schramm, Mareile
(Universität Siegen)
Why creole syllables are not all simple: Superstrate and substrate influence in Caribbean creole syllable structure.
Selbach, Rachel
(Universiy of Amsterdam)
When the lexifier is not the superstrate: Lingua Franca in Algiers (1600-1900).
Shimada, Tamami
(Kyoto University)
Contact-induced Features in Hiberno-English: 'Non-cleft' Analysis of the 'tis ~ it is … Construction.
Siegel, Jeff
(University of New England)
In praise of the cafeteria principle: Sources of substrate influence in Hawai'i Creole.
Smith, Ian
(York University, Canada)
Abduction, Mapping and Calquing as models of lexifier and substratum input in creoles.
Smith, Norval
(University of Amsterdam)
The origin of the Portuguese words in Saramaccan.
Stern, Dieter
(Humboldt Universität Berlin)
wh-movemnet in Taimyr Pidgin Russian: Is it Substrate or Superstrate?
Tadmor, Uri
(PKBB, Unika Atma Jaya)
What kind of language is Semarangan?
Uffmann, Christian
(University of Marburg)
Vowel Epenthesis and Creole Syllable Structure.
Wälchli, Bernhard
(Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)
Verb serialization and other multiple verb constructions in motion events in creole and non-creole languages -- A typological approach.