Gullah Conference Announcement
Paul D. Fallon
pfallon at PAPRIKA.MWC.EDU
Thu Sep 21 02:26:50 UTC 2000
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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Affiliation:
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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
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