Gullah Conference Announcement

[Paul D. Fallon]

      Gullah: A Linguistic Legacy of Africans in America
         A Conference on the 50th Anniversary of
           _Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect_

Friday, November 3, 2000
Howard University Blackburn Center

8-8:45          Late registration and coffee

8:45-9:10       Opening Remarks

9:10-10:10      KEYNOTE ADDRESS--morning
                John R. Rickford, Stanford University
                "American Fruit with African and Creole Roots: The
                Linguistic and Cultural Significance of the South Carolina
                and Georgia Sea Islands, and of Lorenzo Dow Turner's
                Research Thereon."

10:10-10:30     Margaret Wade-Lewis, SUNY New Paltz
                "The Contribution of Lorenzo Dow Turner to African
                Linguistics Revisited"

10:30-10:50     Patricia C. Nichols, San Jose State University
                "Gullah and Cultural Identity"

10:50-11:10     Coffee Break

11:10-11:30     Rudolph C. Troike, University of Arizona
                "Joel Chandler Harris' Gullah Texts"

11:30-11:50     William A. Kretzschmar, Jr.
                "Gullah Online: The Turner Interviews"

11:50-1:10      LUNCH BREAK


12:00-1:00      John R. Rickford and Russell J. Rickford will sign their
                book _Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English_

1:10-2:10       KEYNOTE ADDRESS--afternoon
                Salikoko S. Mufwene, University of Chicago
                "Lorenzo Dow Turner: A Substratist or a Misunderstood
                Pioneer?"

2:10-2:30       John Victor Singler, New York University
                "Family Tree can Bend but it can Never Break: On the
                Relationship of Gullah to the Liberian Settler English of
                Sinoe"

2:30-2:50       Dudley K. Nylander, Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone
                "Krio and the Gullah Connection Revisited"

2:50-3:10       David Sutcliffe, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
                "Did Gullah Go West?: 19th Century Evidence in 20th
                Century Recordings"

3:10-3:30       Coffee Break

3:30-3:50       Tracey L. Weldon, University of South Carolina
                "The Gullah Copula: A Comprehensive Analysis"

3:50-4:10       Sheri Pargman, University of Chicago
                "Aspect markers in Gullah and Periphrastic do in English
                Dialects: Another Look at the Evidence"

4:10-4:30       Victoria Massey, Howard University
                "Stressed BEEN in Gullah and in African American
                Vernacular English"

4:30-4:50       Betsy Barry, University of Georgia
                "Sociolinguistic Variation in Turner's Gullah Data"

4:50-5:10       Thomas B. Klein and Meta Y. Harris, University of
                Manchester
                "Sound Structure in Gullah: The Narratives in Turner's
                _Africanisms_ as a Linguistic Resource"

5:10-5:30       Susan Tamasi, University of Georgia
                "A Phonological Look into Gullah"

5:30-7:00       Reception

This conference is sponsored by a grant from the Provost's Funds for
Academic Excellence.

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REGISTRATION for Gullah: A Linguistic Legacy of Africans in America


Name:
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Please check one box:

        O       Student $20

        O       Faculty/Other $30

The Conference is free for all Howard University students, faculty, and
staff (with ID).
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Please send in your registration by Oct. 23, 2000 or earlier.
Please make checks payable to "Howard University Academic Excellence
Program" and send them and the form to:

        Dr. Paul D. Fallon
        Dept. of English
        248 Locke Hall
        Howard University
        2441 6th St., NW
        Washington, DC 20059

A block of rooms at the Carlyle Suites, located near Dupont Circle between
Q and R Streets at 1731 New Hamphsire Ave, NW., in Washington, DC has been
reserved until October 3, 2000.  The discount rates are $109  for a
single, and $119 for a double (plus 14.5% tax). Please make your own
reservations by calling 1-(800) 964-5377 and ask for the "Gullah
Conference" group rate.

If you have any questions, preferably email pfallon at howard.edu, or call
(202) 806-5611.

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Paul D. Fallon, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Linguistics and English
Dept. of English
248 Locke Hall          (202) 806-6708 (fax)
Howard University       (202) 806-6730 (dept.)
2441 6th St., NW        (202) 806-5611 (office)
Washington, DC 20059    pfallon at howard.edu or: pfallon at paprika.mwc.edu