structure between substrates and superstrates

Conference, Leipzig (Germany), 3-5 June 2005

Conference Description Conference Program List of Participants/ Abstracts

Invited speakers:

Philip Baker (University of Westminster/Sri Lanka) Claire Lefebvre (Université du Québec à Montréal) Ingo Plag (University of Siegen)

Local Organizer:

Susanne Michaelis (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) Claudia Schmidt (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)

Conference Description

Papers presented at this conference will assess the relative importance of substrate vs. superstrate vs. second-language-universals influence in the creation of a creole language. Particularly relevant will be contributions that compare entire (sub)systems of creoles with their substrate(s) and superstrate(s), so that the nature and degree of the language mixture can be approached in a more systematic way.

One goal of the conference is to situate creole languages within a typology of contact-induced language change. Therefore not only creoles, but also and other contact languages will be discussed.

The papers will present data and analyses from all areas of language structure: lexical semantics, phonology, morphology, syntax and discourse. Any theoretical framework is welcome, as long as the paper also makes an empirical contribution.

The time allotted for presentation and discussion is 35 minutes. English and French are the preferred languages at the conference.

Further members of the Abstract-reading Committee:

Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh (Universitaet Regensburg) Marlyse Baptista (University of Georgia, Athens) Jacques Arends (Universiteit van Amsterdam) John McWhorter (UC Berkeley/ Manhattan Institute) Sibylle Kriegel (Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence)

Conference Program

Thursday, 2 June ca. 19.30 informal get-together in the restaurant ALTE NIKOLAISCHULE

Friday, 3 June

8.30 Entrance Hall registration begins

9.15 Lecture Hall Welcome by Bernard Comrie and Susanne Michaelis 9.30 - Lecture Hall 10.30 Plenary Talk

Philip Baker (University of Westminster / Sri Lanka) Between and beyond substrates and superstrates.

10.30 - Coffee Break 11.00 SESSION I chair: Juliette Blevins chair: Joseph Farquharson chair: Don Stilo

11.00 - Lecture Hall Seminar room H4.10 Seminar room U1.50 11.35 Uffmann, Christian Smith, Norval Papen, Robert A. (University of Marburg) (University of Amsterdam) (UQAM)

Vowel Epenthesis and The origin of the Portuguese words Bilingual mixed languages: Are Creole Syllable Structure. in Saramaccan. their phonologies mixed or not? The case of . 11.40 - Lecture Hall Seminar room H4.10 Seminar room U1.50 12.15 Rivera Castillo, Yolanda Selbach, Rachel Grant, Anthony (University of Puerto Rico- (Universiteit van Amsterdam) (Edge Hill (Lancaster Río Piedras) University)) When the lexifier is not the Vino viejo en odres nuevos" superstrate: Lingua Franca in Superficial versus substantive (old wine in new wineskin): Algiers (1600-1900). creolisation: the case of the Vowel Harmony in Creoles Chamic languages. and Language Convergence.

12.20 - Lecture Hall Seminar room H4.10 Seminar room U1.50 12.55 Schramm, Mareile Güldemann, Tom (Universität Siegen ) (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig) Why creole syllables are not all simple: Superstrate and The alleged grammaticalization of substrate influence in quotative~complementizers in Caribbean creole syllable Atlantic creoles: a West African structure. substrate perspective. 13.00 - Lunch Break 15.00 SESSION II chair: David Gil chair: Annegret Bollée chair: Jeffrey Good

15.00 - Lecture Hall Seminar room H4.10 Seminar room U1.50 15.35 Maurer, Philippe Guillemin, Diana Rubino, Carl (Universität Zürich) (University of Queensland) (Washington DC)

The tonal behaviour of A look at 'so' in Mauritian Creole: Zamboangueño and disyllabic nouns in From possessive pronoun to the Potentive Mode: A Corpus- Santomense. emphatic determiner. based Study. 15.40 - Lecture Hall Seminar room H4.10 Seminar room U1.50 16.15 Prescod, Paula Kriegel, Sibylle, Ludwig, Ralph & Beld, Tony (Université Paris III) Henri, Fabiola (University of New Orleans) (Université de Provence, Universität The formation of deverbal Halle-Wittenberg & University of NegP: lexicalization versus nouns in Vincentian creole: Mauritius) grammaticalization in Louisiana morphological and Creole. phonological processes. Coding ablative in Mauritian Creole. 16.15 - Coffee Break 16.45 16.45 - Lecture Hall Seminar room H4.10 Seminar room U1.50 17.20 Armstrong, Clifton Deprez, Viviane (University of Puerto Rico, (Rutgers University, New Jersey/ ISC Río Piedras) (CNRS))

Creolistics, second language Nominal Constituents in French acquisition research, and Lexifier Creoles: probing the distinguishing the influences structuring role of of language universals, grammaticalization. superstrate and substrate on creole syllable structure. 17.25 - Lecture Hall Seminar room H4.10 Seminar room U1.50 18.00 Tadmor, Uri Intumbo, Incanha (Universitas Atma Jaya, (University of Coimbra, Portugal) Jakarta) Guiné-Bissau Creole Portuguese, its What kind of language is superstrate and a substrate:a comparison Semarangan? of the structure of the noun phrase.

There will be a Conference Dinner in the restaurant STELZENHAUS. The restaurant is situated in ca. 19.30 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 - Lecture Hall 10.30 Plenary Talk

Claire Lefebvre (UQAM) The Principled Respective Contribution to Creole Languages of their Substrates and Superstrate(s).

10.30 - Coffee Break 11.00 SESSION III chair: Bernard Comrie chair: Grev Corbett chair: Silvia Kouwenberg

11.00 - Lecture Hall Seminar room H4.10 Seminar room U1.50 11.35 Neumann-Holzschuh, Clements, Clancy Smith,Ian Ingrid (Indiana University Bloomington) (York University, Canada) (Universität Regensburg) Living language-contact varieties as Abduction, Mapping and A la recherche du windows into the formation of Calquing as models of lexifier "superstrat". What Overseas pidgins and creoles. and substratum input in creoles. French can and cannot tell us about the input to creolization. 11.40 - Lecture Hall Seminar room H4.10 Seminar room U1.50 12.15 Kortmann, Bernd & Goury, Laurence & Migge, Bettina Ansaldo, Umberto Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt (Institut de Recherche pour le (University of Amsterdam) (Universität Freiburg) Developpement, Paris & University College Dublin/ CELIA) Perspectives on admixture and The quest for angloversals creolization. Elaboration of case and vernacular universals in Towards a multi-perspective in Kirinda Java. English-based Pidgins and approach to the origin of Surinamese Creoles. Creole TMA systems. 12.20 - Lecture Hall Seminar room H4.10 Seminar room U1.50 12.55 Huber, Magnus Siegel, Jeff Aboh, Enoch Oladé (Universität Gießen) (University of New England) (University of Amsterdam)

The role of West African In praise of the cafeteria principle: Pattern and feature competition: adstrates in the origin and Sources of substrate influence in Toward a syntactic account to development of Atlantic Hawai'i Creole. contact-induced transfer. English Creoles. 13.00 - Lunch Break 14.30 SESSION IV chair: Tom Gueldemann chair: Claire Lefebvre chair: Orin Gensler

14.30 - Lecture Hall Seminar room H4.10 Seminar room U1.50 15.05 den Besten, Hans Bao, Zhiming Kouwenberg, Silvia (University of Amsterdam) (National University of Singapore) (University of the West Indies)

Pre-nominal possessives in Unproductive substrate features. The problem of multiple three types of Afrikaans. substrates: the case of Jamaican Creole. 15.10 - Lecture Hall Seminar room H4.10 Seminar room U1.50 15.45 Hagemeijer, Tjerk Shimada, Tamami Brousseau, Anne-Marie (University of Lisbon) (Kyoto University) (University of Toronto)

The origins of serialization Contact-induced Features in Derivational morphology in in the Gulf of Guinea Hiberno-English: 'Non-cleft' Analysis St.Lucian: the early emergence creoles. of the 'tis ~ it is … Construction. of a mixed system. 15.50 - Lecture Hall Seminar room H4.10 Seminar room U1.50 16.25 Gadelii, Karl Erland Matthews, Stephen & Smith, Geoff Braun, Maria (Göteborgs Universitet) P. (Universität Siegen) (University of Hong Kong) Predicative constructions in Where from do creole languages French creoles. Substrate influence as reflected in get their word-formation Chinese and English sources for resources? The case of Early China Coast . Sranan. 16.30 - Coffee Break 17.00 17.00 - Lecture Hall 17.30 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 - Lecture Hall 18.00 informal presentation of A Handbook of Varieties of English/A Multimedia Reference Tool (Ed. by Bernd Kortmann & Edgar W. Schneider)

by Edgar Schneider and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

Sunday, 5 June

SESSION V chair: Ingo Plag chair: Philip Baker chair: Uri Tadmor

9.30 - Lecture Hall Seminar room H4.10 Seminar room U1.50 10.05 McWhorter, John Holm, John & Luís, Ana R. Mühlhäusler, Peter (UC Berkeley / Manhattan (University of Coimbra, Portugal) (University of Adelaide) Institute) Superstrate Inflections in the Categorial Multifunctionality in Revisiting the Creole Portuguese-Based Creoles and the Pitkern - Norfuk and . Prototype: Signs of antiquity Nature of Creolization. in older languages. 10.10 - Lecture Hall Seminar room H4.10 Seminar room U1.50 10.45 Faraclas, Nicholas McConvell, Patrick & Meakins, Ehrhart, Sabine (University of Puerto Rico, Felicity & O'Shannessy, Carmel (Universität Freiburg/ Université Río Piedras) (AIATSIS & University of Paris III ) Melbourne & University of Sydney/ Taking A Broader View of MPI of Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen) The influence of substrate and the Substrate: The superstrate in the case of two Problematic Search for 'The Kriol and mixed languages in South Pacific Creole Languages: One and Only' Substrate Australia: constraining substrate and Tayo in New Caledonia and Source for Linguistic superstrate explanations of emergent Palmerston English in the Cook Features in Creole structures. Islands. Languages. 10.45 - Coffee Break 11.15 11.15 - Lecture Hall Seminar room H4.10 Seminar room U1.50 11.50 Gil, David Wälchli, Bernhard Michaelis, Susanne (MPI for Evolutionary (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig) Leipzig) Anthropology, Leipzig)

Creoles and Complexity: A Verb serialization and other multiple Valency patterns in Seychelles Cross-Linguistic verb constructions in motion events Creole: Where do they come Experiment. in creole and non-creole languages -- from? A typological approach. 12.00 - MPI Lecture Hall 13.00 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

List of Participants and Titles

Plenary talks:

Philip Baker Between and beyond substrates and superstrates. (University of Westminster/ Sri Lanka)

Claire Lefebvre The Principled Respective Contribution to Creole (Université du Québec à Montréal) Languages of their Substrates and Superstrate(s).

Ingo Plag Creoles as interlanguages: Old fallacies and new (University of Siegen) insights concerning the role of substrate and superstrate in creole genesis

Session talks:

Aboh, Enoch Oladé Pattern and feature competition: Toward a syntactic (University of Amsterdam) account to contact-induced transfer.

Ansaldo, Umberto Perspectives on admixture and creolization. (University of Amsterdam) Elaboration of case in Kirinda Java.

Armstrong, Clifton Creolistics, second language acquisition research, (University of Puerto Rico, Río and distinguishing the influences of language Piedras) universals, superstrate and substrate on creole syllable structure.

Bao, Zhiming Unproductive substrate features. (National University of Singapore)

Beld, Tony NegP: lexicalization -vs- grammaticalization in (University of New Orleans) .

Braun, Maria Where from do creole languages get their word- (University of Siegen) formation resources? The case of Early Sranan.

Brousseau, Anne-Marie Derivational morphology in St.Lucian: the early (University of Toronto) emergence of a mixed system. Clements, Clancy Living language-contact varieties as windows into (Indiana University Bloomington) the formation of pidgins and creoles. den Besten, Hans Pre-nominal possessives in three types of Afrikaans. (University of Amsterdam)

Deprez, Vivianne Nominal Constituents in French Lexifier Creoles: (Rutgers University, New Jersey & probing the structuring role of grammaticalization. ISC (CNRS))

Ehrhart, Sabine The influence of substrate and superstrate in the (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität case of two South Pacific Creole Languages: Tayo in Freiburg & Université Paris III - New Caledonia and Palmerston English in the Cook Sorbonne Nouvelle) Islands

Faraclas, Nicholas Taking A Broader View of the Substrate: The (Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Problematic Search for 'The One and Only' Piedras) Substrate Source for Linguistic Features in Creole Languages.

Gadelii, Karl Erland Predicative constructions in French creoles. (University of Göteborgs, Sweden)

Gil, David Creoles and Complexity: A Cross-Linguistic (Max Planck Institute for Experiment. Evolutionary Anthropology)

Goury, Laurence and Migge, Towards a multi-perspective approach to the origin Bettina of Surinamese Creole TMA systems. (Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement, Paris; University College Dublin & CELIA )

Grant, Anthony Superficial versus substantive creolisation: the case Lancaster University of the chamic languages.

Gueldemann, Tom The alleged grammaticalization of (Max Planck Institute for quotative~complementizers in Atlantic creoles: a Evolutionary Anthropology) West African substrate perspective.

Guillemin, Diana A look at so in Mauritian Creole: From possessive (University of Queensland) pronoun to emphatic determiner. Hagemeijer, Tjerk The origins of serialization in the Gulf of Guinea (University of Lisbon) creoles.

Holm, John and Luís, Ana R. Superstrate Inflections in the Portuguese-Based (University of Coimbra, Portugal) Creoles and the Nature of Creolization.

Huber, Magnus The role of West African adstrates in the origin and (Universität Gießen) development of Atlantic English Creoles.

Intumbo, Incanha Guiné-Bissau Creole Portuguese, its superstrate and (University of Coimbra, Portugal) a substrate:a comparison of the structure of the noun phrase.

Kortmann, Bernd and The quest for angloversals and vernacular Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt universals in English-based Pidgins and Creoles. (Universität Freiburg)

Kouwenberg, Silvia The problem of multiple substrates: the case of (University of the West Indies) Jamaican Creole.

Kriegel, Sibylle and Ludwig, Coding ablative in Mauritian Creole. Ralph and Henri, Fabiola (Université de Provence; Universität Halle-Wittenberg; University of Mauritius)

Matthews, Stephen and Smith, Substrate influence as reflected in Chinese and Geoff P. English sources for China Coast Pidgin. (University of Hong Kong)

Maurer, Philippe The tonal behaviour of disyllabic nouns in (Universität Zürich) Santomense.

McConvell, Patrick and Meakins, Kriol and mixed languages in Australia: Felicity and O'Shannessy, Carmel constraining substrate and superstrate explanations (AIATSIS; University of of emergent structures. Melbourne; University of Sydney & Max-Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen)

McWhorter, John Revisiting the Creole Prototype: Signs of antiquity in (UC Berkeley / Manhattan Institute) older languages. Michaelis, Susanne Valency patterns in Seychelles Creole: Where do (Max Planck Institute for they come from? Evolutionary Anthropology)

Mühlhäusler, Peter Categorial Multifunctionality in Pitkern - Norfuk (University of Adelaide) and Tok Pisin.

Neumann-Holzschuh, Ingrid A la recherche du "superstrat". What Overseas (Universität Regensburg) French can and cannot tell us about the input to creolization.

Papen, Robert A. Bilingual mixed languages: Are their phonologies (L'Université du Québec à mixed or not? The case of Michif. Montréal)

Prescod, Paula The formation of deverbal nouns in Vincentian (Université Paris III) creole: morphological and phonological processes.

Rivera Castillo, Yolanda Vino viejo en odres nuevos"(old wine in new (University of Puerto Rico, Río wineskin): Vowel Harmony in Creoles and Language Piedras) Convergence.

Roberge, Paul T. What goes on 'between superstrates and substrates' (University of North Carolina at in creole formation? Chapel Hill)

Rubino, Carl Zamboangueño Chavacano and the Potentive Mode: (Washington DC) A Corpus-based Study.

Schramm, Mareile Why creole syllables are not all simple: Superstrate (Universität Siegen) and substrate influence in Caribbean creole syllable structure.

Selbach, Rachel When the lexifier is not the superstrate: Lingua (Universiy of Amsterdam) Franca in Algiers (1600-1900).

Shimada, Tamami Contact-induced Features in Hiberno-English: 'Non- (Kyoto University) cleft' Analysis of the 'tis ~ it is … Construction.

Siegel, Jeff In praise of the cafeteria principle: Sources of (University of New England) substrate influence in Hawai'i Creole.

Smith, Ian Abduction, Mapping and Calquing as models of (York University, Canada) lexifier and substratum input in creoles.

Smith, Norval The origin of the Portuguese words in Saramaccan. (University of Amsterdam)

Stern, Dieter wh-movemnet in Taimyr Pidgin Russian: Is it (Humboldt Universität Berlin) Substrate or Superstrate?

Tadmor, Uri What kind of language is Semarangan? (PKBB, Unika Atma Jaya)

Uffmann, Christian Vowel Epenthesis and Creole Syllable Structure. (University of Marburg)

Wälchli, Bernhard Verb serialization and other multiple verb (Max Planck Institute for constructions in motion events in creole and non- Evolutionary Anthropology) creole languages -- A typological approach.