Thursday, 2 June
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| ca. 19.30 |
informal get-together in the restaurant ALTE NIKOLAISCHULE
(city center, opposite the Nikolai church). |
Friday, 3 June
|
| 8.30 |
Entrance Hall |
registration begins
|
| 9.15 |
Lecture Hall |
Welcome
by Bernard Comrie and Susanne Michaelis |
| 9.30 - 10.30 |
Lecture Hall |
Plenary Talk
Philip Baker (University of Westminster / Sri Lanka)
Between and beyond substrates and superstrates.
|
| 10.30 - 11.00 |
Coffee Break
|
SESSION I
|
chair: Juliette Blevins |
chair: Joseph Farquharson |
chair: Don Stilo |
| 11.00 - 11.35 |
Lecture Hall |
Seminar room H4.10 |
Seminar room U1.50 |
Uffmann, Christian
(University of Marburg)
Vowel Epenthesis and Creole Syllable Structure. |
Smith, Norval
(University of Amsterdam)
The origin of the Portuguese words in Saramaccan. |
Papen, Robert A.
(UQAM)
Bilingual mixed languages: Are their phonologies mixed or not? The case of Michif. |
| 11.40 - 12.15 |
Lecture Hall |
Seminar room H4.10 |
Seminar room U1.50 |
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. |
Selbach, Rachel
(Universiteit van Amsterdam)
When the lexifier is not the superstrate: Lingua Franca in Algiers (1600-1900). |
Grant, Anthony
(Edge Hill (Lancaster University))
Superficial versus substantive creolisation: the case of the Chamic languages. |
| 12.20 - 12.55 |
Lecture Hall |
Seminar room H4.10 |
Seminar room U1.50 |
Schramm, Mareile
(Universität Siegen )
Why creole syllables are not all simple: Superstrate and substrate influence
in Caribbean creole syllable structure. |
Güldemann, Tom
(MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig)
The alleged grammaticalization of quotative~complementizers in Atlantic creoles:
a West African substrate perspective. |
|
| 13.00 - 15.00 |
Lunch Break
The Institute Cafeteria is open for our conference participants.
|
SESSION II
|
chair: David Gil |
chair: Annegret Bollée |
chair: Jeffrey Good |
| 15.00 - 15.35 |
Lecture Hall |
Seminar room H4.10 |
Seminar room U1.50 |
Maurer, Philippe
(Universität Zürich)
The tonal behaviour of disyllabic nouns in Santomense. |
Guillemin, Diana
(University of Queensland)
A look at 'so' in Mauritian Creole: From possessive pronoun to emphatic determiner. |
Rubino, Carl
(Washington DC)
Zamboangueño Chavacano and the Potentive Mode: A Corpus-based Study. |
| 15.40 - 16.15 |
Lecture Hall |
Seminar room H4.10 |
Seminar room U1.50 |
Prescod, Paula
(Université Paris III)
The formation of deverbal nouns in Vincentian creole: morphological and phonological processes. |
Kriegel, Sibylle, Ludwig, Ralph & Henri, Fabiola
(Université de Provence, Universität Halle-Wittenberg & University of Mauritius)
Coding ablative in Mauritian Creole. |
Beld, Tony
(University of New Orleans)
NegP: lexicalization versus grammaticalization in Louisiana Creole. |
| 16.15 - 16.45 |
Coffee Break
|
| 16.45 - 17.20 |
Lecture Hall |
Seminar room H4.10 |
Seminar room U1.50 |
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. |
Deprez, Viviane
(Rutgers University, New Jersey/ ISC (CNRS))
Nominal Constituents in French Lexifier Creoles: probing the structuring role of grammaticalization. |
|
| 17.25 - 18.00 |
Lecture Hall |
Seminar room H4.10 |
Seminar room U1.50 |
Tadmor, Uri
(Universitas Atma Jaya, Jakarta)
What kind of language is Semarangan? |
Intumbo, Incanha
(University of Coimbra, Portugal)
Guiné-Bissau Creole Portuguese, its superstrate and a substrate:a comparison
of the structure of the noun phrase. |
|
| ca. 19.30 |
There will be a Conference Dinner in the restaurant STELZENHAUS.
The restaurant is situated in Plagwitz, one of the most interesting former industrial parts of Leipzig,
now in great demand amongst students, artists, architects and young families.
The name "Stelzenhaus" is the reference to some one hundred columns on which the building is set above
the little channel "Karl-Heine-Kanal". |
Saturday, 4 June
|
| 9.30 - 10.30 |
Lecture Hall |
Plenary Talk
Claire Lefebvre (UQAM)
The Principled Respective Contribution to Creole Languages of their Substrates and Superstrate(s).
|
| 10.30 - 11.00 |
Coffee Break
|
SESSION III
|
chair: Bernard Comrie |
chair: Grev Corbett |
chair: Silvia Kouwenberg |
| 11.00 - 11.35 |
Lecture Hall |
Seminar room H4.10 |
Seminar room U1.50 |
Neumann-Holzschuh, Ingrid
(Universität Regensburg)
A la recherche du "superstrat". What Overseas French can and cannot tell us about
the input to creolization. |
Clements, Clancy
(Indiana University Bloomington)
Living language-contact varieties as windows into the formation of pidgins and creoles. |
Smith,Ian
(York University, Canada)
Abduction, Mapping and Calquing as models of lexifier and substratum input in creoles. |
| 11.40 - 12.15 |
Lecture Hall |
Seminar room H4.10 |
Seminar room U1.50 |
Kortmann, Bernd & Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt
(Universität Freiburg)
The quest for angloversals and vernacular universals in English-based Pidgins and Creoles. |
Goury, Laurence & 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. |
Ansaldo, Umberto
(University of Amsterdam)
Perspectives on admixture and creolization. Elaboration of case in Kirinda Java. |
| 12.20 - 12.55 |
Lecture Hall |
Seminar room H4.10 |
Seminar room U1.50 |
Huber, Magnus
(Universität Gießen)
The role of West African adstrates in the origin and development of Atlantic English Creoles. |
Siegel, Jeff
(University of New England)
In praise of the cafeteria principle: Sources of substrate influence in Hawai'i Creole. |
Aboh, Enoch Oladé
(University of Amsterdam)
Pattern and feature competition: Toward a syntactic account to contact-induced transfer. |
| 13.00 - 14.30 |
Lunch Break
|
SESSION IV
|
chair: Tom Gueldemann |
chair: Claire Lefebvre |
chair: Orin Gensler |
| 14.30 - 15.05 |
Lecture Hall |
Seminar room H4.10 |
Seminar room U1.50 |
den Besten, Hans
(University of Amsterdam)
Pre-nominal possessives in three types of Afrikaans. |
Bao, Zhiming
(National University of Singapore)
Unproductive substrate features. |
Kouwenberg, Silvia
(University of the West Indies)
The problem of multiple substrates: the case of Jamaican Creole. |
| 15.10 - 15.45 |
Lecture Hall |
Seminar room H4.10 |
Seminar room U1.50 |
Hagemeijer, Tjerk
(University of Lisbon)
The origins of serialization in the Gulf of Guinea creoles. |
Shimada, Tamami
(Kyoto University)
Contact-induced Features in Hiberno-English: 'Non-cleft'
Analysis of the 'tis ~ it is … Construction. |
Brousseau, Anne-Marie
(University of Toronto)
Derivational morphology in St.Lucian: the early emergence of a mixed system. |
| 15.50 - 16.25 |
Lecture Hall |
Seminar room H4.10 |
Seminar room U1.50 |
Gadelii, Karl Erland
(Göteborgs Universitet)
Predicative constructions in French creoles. |
Matthews, Stephen & Smith, Geoff P.
(University of Hong Kong)
Substrate influence as reflected in Chinese and English sources for China Coast Pidgin. |
Braun, Maria
(Universität Siegen)
Where from do creole languages get their word-formation resources? The case of Early Sranan. |
| 16.30 - 17.00 |
Coffee Break
|
| 17.00 - 17.30 |
Lecture Hall |
informal presentation of
The World Atlas of Language Structures - WALS
an interactive cross-linguistic database for typological research
(Ed. by M. Haspelmath, M. S. Dryer, D. Gil, and B. Comrie /
interactive electronic version: H.-J. Bibiko)
by Martin Haspelmath and Hans-Jörg Bibiko
|
| 17.30 - 18.00 |
Lecture Hall |
informal presentation of
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Sunday, 5 June
|
SESSION V
|
chair: Ingo Plag |
chair: Philip Baker |
chair: Uri Tadmor |
| 9.30 - 10.05 |
Lecture Hall |
Seminar room H4.10 |
Seminar room U1.50 |
McWhorter, John
(UC Berkeley / Manhattan Institute)
Revisiting the Creole Prototype: Signs of antiquity in older languages. |
Holm, John & Luís, Ana R.
(University of Coimbra, Portugal)
Superstrate Inflections in the Portuguese-Based Creoles and the Nature of Creolization. |
Mühlhäusler, Peter
(University of Adelaide)
Categorial Multifunctionality in Pitkern - Norfuk and Tok Pisin. |
| 10.10 - 10.45 |
Lecture Hall |
Seminar room H4.10 |
Seminar room U1.50 |
Faraclas, Nicholas
(University of 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. |
McConvell, Patrick & Meakins, Felicity & O'Shannessy, Carmel
(AIATSIS & University of Melbourne & University of Sydney/ MPI of Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen)
Kriol and mixed languages in Australia: constraining substrate and superstrate explanations of
emergent structures. |
Ehrhart, Sabine
(Universität Freiburg/ Université Paris III )
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. |
| 10.45 - 11.15 |
Coffee Break
|
| 11.15 - 11.50 |
Lecture Hall |
Seminar room H4.10 |
Seminar room U1.50 |
Gil, David
(MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig)
Creoles and Complexity: A Cross-Linguistic Experiment. |
Wälchli, Bernhard
(MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig)
Verb serialization and other multiple verb constructions in motion events
in creole and non-creole languages -- A typological approach. |
Michaelis, Susanne
(MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig)
Valency patterns in Seychelles Creole: Where do they come from? |
| 12.00 - 13.00 |
MPI Lecture Hall |
Plenary Talk
Ingo Plag (Universität Siegen)
Creoles as interlanguages: Old fallacies and new insights concerning the role
of substrate and superstrate in creole genesis
|
| 13.00 |
Farewell
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