program version (8 JAN 09) 2009 SOCIETY FOR PIDGIN AND CREOLE LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE PROGRAM SAN FRANCISCO , CA, USA FRIDAY & SATURDAY 9-10 JANUARY 2009 rd Meeting in conjunction with the 83 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America Venue: Hilton San Francisco 333 O'Farrell Street, San Francisco, California 94102 Tel: 1-415-771-1400 Fax: 1-415-771-6807 http://www1.hilton.com/en_US/hi/hotel/SFOFHHH-Hilton-San-Francisco-California/index.do General info: http://www.mona.uwi.edu/dllp/spcl/Conferences.html or http://www.lsadc.org/ Contact: Rocky R. Meade Sessions start at 8:45am [email protected] Please arrive a few minutes early. Tel (876) 815-4094 FRIDAY MORNING, 9 January 2009 (8:45 – 12:00) Session 1 [LSA 88] ROOM : UNION SQUARE 23 : 8:45 Conference Opening Remarks Arthur Spears - President SYNTAX /G RAMMATICALIZATION Chair: Arthur Spears (City University of New York) 9:00 Malcolm Finney (California State University): Syntactic Dependency and Instrumental Constructions in Krio: Distinguishing Serial Verb Constructions from Overt or Covert Coordinate Structures 9:30 Danny Adone (University of Cologne): Grammaticalisation and Creolisation: The Case of Ngukurr Kriol OSTER RESENTATIONS CAN BE VIEWED IN Grand Ballroom A 10:00- Break P P [LSA 89] 10:30 [LSA 90] ROOM : UNION SQUARE 23 [LSA 91] ROOM : UNION SQUARE 24 Session 2A Session 2B AFRICAN AMERICAN ENGLISH PHONOLOGY Chair: Armin Schwegler (University of California, Irvine) Chair: Rocky R. Meade (University of the West Indies, Mona) 10:30 Arthur Spears (City University of New York): Shelome Gooden and Erin Donnelly (University of Pittsburgh): African American English Auxiliaries: The Neocreolist Hypothesis Phonetics of Implosives in Jamaican Creole 11:00 Margaret Wade-Lewis (State University of New York at New Paltz): Iyabo Osiapem and Shelome Gooden (University of Pittsburgh): The Role of Beryl Loftman Bailey in Advancing Creole Linguistics Sentence Intonation in Black Bermudian English: a creole connection? 11:30 Gerard Van Herk (Memorial University of Newfoundland) Becky CANCELLED: Tanyia Joy Wilkins (Mico University College, Kingston): Childs (Coastal Carolina University): The Rhythmic Patterns of Jamaican English CANCELLED A different island: Newfoundland English as a testing ground for dialect contributions to earlier African American English OSTER RESENTATIONS CAN BE VIEWED IN Grand Ballroom A 12:00- Lunch P P 2:00 2009 FRIDAY AFTERNOON, 9 January 2009 (2:00 – 5:30) [LSA 92] ROOM : UNION SQUARE 23 [LSA 93] ROOM : UNION SQUARE 24 Session 3A Session 3B DUCATION ISSUES AMAICAN ORPHOLOGY E – J M Chair: Donald Winford (Ohio State University) Chair: Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig) 2:00 Rocky R. Meade (University of the West Indies, Mona): Carol Myers-Scotton (Michigan State U) Janice Jake (Midlands Tech College): The Language Competence of Children Entering Jamaican Primary Schools Predicting Distributions in Creoles by Morpheme Type 2:30 Lars Hinrichs and Jessica White ( University of Texas, Austin): Albert Valdman and Anne-Jose Villeneuve ( Indiana University): Combining qualitative and quantitative approaches in the study of Morphophonological variation in Haitian Creole: the case of 3PRO nonstandard spelling in Jamaican writing 3:00 CANCELLED: Nichola Edwards (Glenmuir High School, Jamaica): Peter Slomanson ( City University of New York): Creole Morphology and Syntax: Implications for ELT at the Secondary Level Camouflaged Diachrony in Contact Language Aspect Marking in Jamaica CANCELLED 3:30- Break Break 4:00 [LSA 94] ROOM : UNION SQUARE 23 [LSA 94] ROOM : UNION SQUARE 24 Session 4A Session 4B OCIOLINGUISTICS ULTILINGUALISM OMPARATIVE RIGIN S /M C /O Chair: Ronald Schaefer (Southern Illinois University) Chair: Marvin Kramer (Dharma Realm Buddhist University ): Don Walicek ( University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras): Nicholas Faraclas, Rhoda Arrindell, Micah Corum, Candida Gonzalez Lopez, 4:00 Sociolinguistic Diversity in Samaná English: When Is It Significant? Lourdes Gonzalez, Pier Angeli Le Compte, Jean Ourdy Pierre, Neusa Rodriguez and Diana Ursulin ( University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras): Marginalized Peoples & Creole Genesis: Sociétés de Cohabitation & the Founder Principle Mie Hiramoto (National U of Singapore) Gavin Furukawa (U of Hawaii): 4:30 Nicole Scott and Sandra Evans (UWI, Mona & St. Augustine): Multilingualism, Language Ideology, and Language Practice: Representation Predicator Complementation: A Comparative Analysis of English and Trinidad French of Hawai‘i Creole in Advertisements Lexicon Creole Aya Inoue (University of Hawaii): Stephane Goyette ( Brandon University, Manitoba): 5:00 Basilectal, mesolectal and acrolectal patterns in copula variability: a case of Creole genesis and the (ir)relevance of dialect mixture Hawai‘i Creole 5:30 End of today’s SPCL sessions Please consider making a donation to SPCL’s Stephen Peck Fund . Its main purpose is to help fund students’ travel to our annual conference. Thank you in advance 2009 SATURDAY MORNING, 10 January 2009 (8:45 – 12:00) [LSA 96] ROOM : UNION SQUARE 23 [LSA 97] ROOM : UNION SQUARE 24 Session 5A Session 5B 8:45 Conference Announcements Rocky Meade – Exec Secy ANGUAGE ONTACT HINESE SAGE TYLES U S L C - C Chair: J. Clancy Clements (Indiana University) Chair: Fredric Field (California State University) Stephen Matthews, Alfred Jones (University of Hong Kong) and 9:00 Elizabeth Winkler (Western Kentucky University): Questions of Gender in Limonese Creole English Virginia Yip (Chinese University of Hong Kong): Chinese Pidgin English in verse: from Canton to Shanghai 9:30 Nickesha Dawkins (University of the West Indies, Mona): E-Ching Ng (Yale University): Malay meets Chinese meets English: Word-Level Tone in Colloquial Singaporean Phonology of Dancehall Music: Vowel use by artistes according to gender English 10:00 CANCELLED: Lars Hinrichs (University of Texas, Austin): Zhiming Bao (National University of Singapore): Language style in the Jamaican Diaspora CANCELLED Must in Singapore English 10:30- Break 11:00 [LSA 98] ROOM : UNION SQUARE 23 [LSA 99] ROOM : UNION SQUARE 24 Session 6A Session 6B PANISH BASED REOLES IDGINS SYNTAX /S EMANTICS S - C /P Chair: Malcolm Finney (California State University) Chair: Nicholas Faraclas (University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras): 11:00 Anne-Sophie Bally (Université du Québec à Montréal): Armin Schwegler (University of California, Irvine): Definiteness and Number in Saramaka Pidgin Bozal Spanish and African tongues in Cuba: A decade of research — A major step forward 11:30 Ronald Schaefer (Southern Illinois University): J. Clancy Clements ( Indiana University): Semantic Class Restrictions on Intransitive Verbs in Series Chinese Spanish in 19th-Century Cuba 12:00 Audene Henry (UWI, Mona and University of Technology, Jamaica): Jorge Porras ( Sonoma State University): A Historical Reconstruction of Nominal Prefixes of the Maroon Kromanti Noun marking in Philippine Creole Spanish: A comparative approach Language 12:30- Lunch break ) 2:00 SATURDAY 2009 AFTERNOON, 10 January 2009 (2:00 – 5:30 + Dinner) Session 7A [LSA 100] ROOM : UNION SQUARE 23 Session 7B [LSA 101] ROOM : UNION SQUARE 24 ISTORICAL RANSFER I EXICAL NALYSES H T & AP CS L A Chair: M. Wade-Lewis (State University of New York at New Paltz) Chair: Carol Myers-Scotton ( Michigan State University) 2:00 Bart Jacobs ( Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München): Israel A. Linarte (Colorado State University): Papiamentu’s Afro-Portuguese origins: Linguistic and historical connections Spanish Loanwords in Miskito Coast Creole with Upper Guinea Portuguese Creole 2:30 Marvin Kramer (Dharma Realm Buddhist University): Henry Zenk (Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde), Jedd Schrock (University Historical implications of the transfer of morphology in the Portuguese element of of Oregon) Tony Johnson (Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde): Saramaccan Chinook Jargon (Chinuk Wawa) Etymologies—a Progress Report 3:00 Martin Haspelmath, Susanne Michaelis (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig) CANCELLED: Leila Caid (Université Paris 10-Nanterre) Magnus Huber (U of Zurich) Philippe Maurer (U of Giessen): Tense And Aspect Markers In Reunion And Mauritian Creoles CANCELLED First results from the Atlas of Pidgin & Creole Language Structures (APiCS) 3:30- Break 4:00 Session 8 [LSA 102] ROOM : UNION SQUARE 23 KEYNOTE ADDRESS Chair: Danny Adone (University of Cologne). 4:00 Address : Donald Winford (The Ohio State University): Processes of Creole formation and related contact-induced language change 4:45 Discussant: John Victor Singler (New York University) for 15 mins (followed by open floor questions/discussion for 15 mins). 5:15 Conference Closing Remarks: Arthur Spears (City University of New York) – President 5:30 End of today’s SPCL sessions. There will not be an SPCL business meeting at this conference OUR NEXT SPCL BUSINESS MEETING will be held at the Summer Conference - Cologne, Germany, 11-15 August 2009 7:30 SPCL Dinner Please consider making a donation to SPCL’s Stephen Peck Fund . If you would like to have your name on the SPCL mailing list , send an e-mail to: Rocky Meade < [email protected]> .