Calls: International Seminar on Creole Languages

[Harold Schiffman]

International Seminar on Creole Languages

Date: 25-Aug-2009 - 29-Aug-2009
Location: Munich, Germany
Contact: Elissa Pustka
Contact Email: < click here to access email >
Meeting URL: http://www.creoleseminar.org

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Phonology; Semantics; Syntax

Meeting Description:

The International Seminar on Creole Languages provides ample opportunity for
scholars doing research on creole languages to exchange ideas and
debate current issues in the field. We especially invite post-graduate
students at advanced M.A.,- doc- and post-doc level.

Each 3-hour session is dedicated to one specific aspect of creole
linguistics. It will be moderated by an experienced researcher, who
presents the main issues and critical questions from own research and
leads the discussion with the participants.

The workshop makes it possible to share experience and expertise from
own research and discuss problems with colleagues experienced in
different Portuguese-, French, English- and Spanish-based creole
languages.

This year's topics in the areas of Semantics, Phonology and Syntax focus on
descriptive approaches to creoles.

The conference language will be English.

Chaired by
Prof. Jürgen Lang (Erlangen) &
Prof. Ulrich Detges (Munich)

Organisers:
Elissa Pustka (Munich)
Bettina Lämmle (Munich/Mannheim)
Christina Märzhäuser (Munich/Coimbra)

Wednesday, August 26th

9.00
Registration

9.30
Opening Words (Ulrich Detges, Munich)

9.45-12.30
Session 1: A Discussion Concerning 'Relexification' in Creole Genesis
and Its Implication for the Semantic Relations between Creoles and
Their Base Languages (Jürgen Lang, Erlangen)

14.30-17.30
Session 2: Metaphorical And Metonymical Expressions of Quantity:
Universal Beaten Paths Vs. (Single) Creole Particularities (Elissa
Pustka, Munich)

Thursday, August 27th

9.30-12.30
Session 3: Guinea Bissau Creole Portuguese (GBCP) Verb Phrase Syntax
(Incanha Intumbo, Coimbra)

13.30-16.30
Session 4: Verb Phrase in Cape-Verdean Creole of São Vicente: Problems
and Finding (Dominika Swolkien, Mindelo/Coimbra)

Friday, August 28th

9.30-12.30
Session 5: Creole Prosody (Kofi Yakpo, Nijmegen/Berlin)

14.30-17.30
Session 6: Phonological Dynamics in Situations of Contact between
French and Creole(s) (Gudrun Ledegen/Jean-Philippe Watbled,
Saint-Denis De La Réunion)

Saturday, August 29th

9.30-12.30

Session 7: A Comparative and Problem-Orientated Approach to Nouniness,
Nominal Categorization and Noun Phrase Constituency in Creole
Languages (Monika Sokol, Bamberg/Bayreuth)

12.30-13.30
Final Discussion & Desiderata for Research (Chair: Jürgen Lang/Ulrich Detges)

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