19.3272, Confs: Creole Languages, General Linguistics/Norway

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LINGUIST List: Vol-19-3272. Tue Oct 28 2008. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 19.3272, Confs: Creole Languages, General Linguistics/Norway

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Date: 28-Oct-2008
From: Marleen van de Vate < creole at hum.uit.no >
Subject: Formal Approaches to Creole Studies

 

	
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Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:14:37
From: Marleen van de Vate [creole at hum.uit.no]
Subject: Formal Approaches to Creole Studies 

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Formal Approaches to Creole Studies 

Date: 14-Nov-2008 - 15-Nov-2008 
Location: Tromsø, Norway 
Contact: Marleen van de Vate 
Contact Email: creole at hum.uit.no 
Meeting URL: http://www.hum.uit.no/creole/index.html 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Language Family(ies): Creole 
Meeting Description: 

The goal of this workshop is to bring together scholars who share an interest in
the formal study of creole languages. 

Program

Friday November 14

9:00- 	  	
Registration

9:45 	  	
Welcome

10:00-11:00 	
Alain Kihm 	
TBA

11:00-11:30
Coffee

11:30-12:15 	
Muhsina Alleesaib 	
Se/sa-ki as Head of Relativised Determiner Phrases in Mauritian

12:15-13:00 	
Nélia Alexandre 	
Resumptive Versus Defective wh-chains in Capeverdean Creole

Lunch

14:15-15:00 	
Enoch Aboh 	
Competition and Selection

15:00-15:45 	
Parth Bhatt & Emmanuel Nikiema 	Is Haitian Creole really a CV language?

Tea

16:15-17:00 	
Yolanda Rivera-Castillo 	
Vowel Harmony and Feature-Value Underspecification

17:00-17:45 	
Tjerk Hagemeijer 	
Negation in the Gulf of Guinea Creoles in the Light of (Creole) Typology

Saturday November 15

9:30-10:15 	
Viviane Depréz 	
On the Conceptual Role of Number Marking in French Based Creoles

10:15-11:00 	
Olga Borik & Fernanda Pratas 	
Stativity and Temporal Interpretation in Capeverdean Creole

Coffee

11:30-12:15 	
Stephanie Durrleman 	
Nominal Architecture in Jamaican Creole

12:15-13:00 	
Tonjes Veenstra 	
Questions in Creoles: Implications for the Cartographic Approach

Lunch

14:15-15:00 	
Marlyse Baptista & Miki Obata 	
Grammaticalization Effects on Complementizers: A Comparative Analysis of Creole
Languages

15:00-15:45 	
Benjamin Braithwaite 	
A Formal Account of Adjectives and Verbs in Creole Languages

Tea

16:15-17:15 	
Hans den Besten 	
TBA







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