SPCL Conference List of Papers

Wednesday, August 13

4.30– 6.30 Registration (Lanai) (outside the Imin International Conference Center)

Thursday, August 14

8.00– 9.00 Registration/Breakfast (Lanai)

9.00–10.00 Opening (Keoni Auditorium):

Hawaiian Chant; welcome by Prof Karl E. Kim (Interim Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs, UHM); waelkam by Kent Sakoda; presentation by Armin Schwegler:; address by Glenn Gilbert

10.00–10.30 Break (refreshments on Lanai)

10.30–12.00 Session 1A (Keoni Auditorium): Variation (Chair: Marlyse Baptista)

10.30–11.00 Dagmar Deuber:: Aspects of variation in educated Nigerian Pidgin: Verbal structures

11.00–11.30 Adam B. Paliwala: Three types of creole/superstrate code mixing in Tok Pisin

11.30–12.00 Alison Irvine: Rethinking the notion of acrolect: Evidence from Jamaica

10.30–12.00 Session 1B (Sarimanok Room): Historical/Descriptive 1 (Chair: Genevieve Escure)

10.30–11.00 Sarah J. Roberts: Viper Pidgin, good English, and the language of the enemy: Language ideology in Territorial Hawai‘i

11.00–11.30 Laura Wright: Black Speakers on the Island of St Helena, 1695-1711

11.30–12.00 Emmanuel J. Drechsel: Towards an ethnohistory of pidgins: Colonial documents as hostile witnesses

12.00– 2.00 Lunch (Wailana – Lower Level)

1.00- 2.00 Information session on Pidgin (Hawai‘i Creole) by Kent Sakoda and others (Keoni Auditorium)

2.00– 3.30 Session 2A (Keoni Auditorium): Applied/Educational 1 (Chair: Diana Eades)

2.00– 2.30 Janet L. Donnelly: Bahamian Creole English: Orthographic representations

2.30– 3.00 Eileen H. Tamura: AAVE and HCE: Comparative history of educational debates with policy implications

3.00– 3.30 John Baugh: Pidgin and creole educational policies in the wake of the Ebonics controversy

2.00– 3.30 Session 2B (Sarimanok Room): Historical/Descriptive 2 (Chair: Tonjes Veenstra)

2.00– 2.30 Armin Schwegler: On the recent discovery of a possible Afro-Cuban creole: Further remarks on Palo Monte (restructured Kikongo) ritual speech

2.30– 3.00 Susanne Mühleisen: Emil Schwörer's Kolonialdeutsch (1916): A historical note on a planned pidgin German

3.00– 3.30 Aya Inoue: Sociolinguistic history and linguistic features of pidginized Japanese in Yokohama

2.00– 3.30 Session 2C (Kaniela Room): Semantics (Chair: Michel DeGraff)

2.00– 2.30 Marlyse Baptista: The Cape Verdean NP in the Sotavento varieties

2.30– 3.00 Dany Adone: Conceptual categories in a French-based creole

3.00– 3.30 Karl Gadelii: The un-Frenchness of Lesser Antillean sa

3.30– 4.00 Break (refreshments in upstairs corridor)

4.00– 5.00 Session 3A (Keoni Auditorium): Educational 2 (Chair: Terri Menacker)

4.00– 4.30 Joyce Hudson & Rosalind Berry: The FELIKS approach to teaching Standard English

4.30– 5.00 Ronald C. Morren: Creole trilingual education - San Andres Island, Caribbean

4.00– 5.00 Session 3B (Sarimanok Room): Historical/Descriptive 3 (Chair: Charles Mann)

4.00– 4.30 Seiji Fakazawa & Mie Hiramoto: Chuugoku dialect terms that remain in Hawai‘i Creole English (Hawai ni nokoru Chuugoku-ben)

4.30– 5.00 Maria M.P. Scherre & Anthony.J. Naro: Still prospecting: More on the structural origins of Brazilian Portuguese

4.00– 5.00 Session 3C (Kaniela Room): Substrate influence 1 (Chair: Adrienne Bruyn)

4.00– 4.30 Peter Slomanson: A Sri Lanka Malay grammar with VO predicates

4.30– 5.00 Claire Lefebvre: Can Saramaccan functional categories be derived from a relexification account of creole genesis?

5.30– 6.30 Cultural program (Keoni Auditorium)

Readings by Lee Tonouchi (“Da Pidgin Guerrilla”);

Performance of traditional hula by Halau Mohala Ilima

6.30– 8.00 Reception (with drinks and pupus) and Book Launching (Lanai)

Pidgin Grammar: An Introduction to the Creole Language of Hawai‘i by Kent Sakoda and Jeff Siegel; and
At Home the Green Remains: Caribbean Writing in Honour of John Figueroa edited by Esther Figueroa

Friday, August 15

8.00– 9.00 Breakfast (Lanai)

9.00–10.00 Plenary 1 (Keoni Auditorium)

Kenneth Sumbuk: Current status of Tok Pisin: Its influence on Papua New Guinea languages

10.00–10.30 Break (refreshments on Lanai)

10.30–12.00 Session 4A (Keoni Auditorium): Substrate influence 1 (Chair: Claire Lefebvre)

10.30–11.00 J. Essegbey & Adrienne Bruyn: The use of ini in Sranan

11.00–11.30 Jennifer M. Munro: Morpho-syntactic substrate influences in Australian Kriol

11.30–12.00 Gillian Sankoff: Substrate effects in Tok Pisin modals

10.30–12.00 Session 4B (Sarimanok Room): Applied/Methodological (Chair: Sarah Roberts)

10.30–11.00 Charles Mann: Anglo-Nigerian Pidgin in the marketplace in urban, northern Nigeria: Use, functions and attitudes

11.00–11.30 Paul Wexler:: The advantages of a blockage-based etymological dictionary for suspected or proven creole and non-creole relexified languages. (Extrapolating from the Yiddish experience)

11.30–12.00 Cati Brown & Joe McFall: Computer modeling in pidgin and creole genesis research

10.30–12.00 Session 4C (Kaniela Room): Special session on the use of “language analysis” in assessing asylum applications made by speakers of pidgin and creole languages
(Chair: Edgar Schneider)

10.30–11.00 Jacques Arends: On the use of ‘language analysis’ in asylum applications made by West Africans in the Netherlands

11.00–12.00 Chris Corcoran: The role of linguistic expertise in asylum applications: A case study of a Sierra Leonean asylum seeker in the Netherlands (read by Jacques Arends)

11.30–12.00 Discussants: John V. Singler: The “linguistic” asylum interview: The role of the interviewer and the role of the analyst; Diana Eades: “Linguistic Identification":The Australian Perspective (followed by general discussion)

12.00– 6.30 Field trip to Plantation Village and the North Shore

Saturday, August 16

8.00– 9.00 Registration/Breakfast (Lanai)

9.00–10.00 Plenary 2 (Keoni Auditorium)

Barbara Lalla: Creole dimensions of development in Caribbean literary discourse

10.00–10.30 Break (refreshments on Lanai)

10.30–12.00 Session 5A (Keoni Auditorium)

Panel on Pidgin literature in Hawai‘i: “Inscribing the Local: Pidgin as a Literary Project”

Speakers: Lisa Lynn Kanae, Susan Schultz, Richard Nettell, Gary Pak

10.30–12.00 Session 5B (Sarimanok Room): Morphosyntax 1 (Chair: Dany Adone)

10.30–11.00 Chris Collins: A fresh look at habitual be in AAVE (Read by Arthur Bell)

11.00–11.30 Arthur J. Bell: Bipartite negation, creoles, and UG

11.30–12.00 John McWhorter: Born yesterday and on the ground running: Saramaccan as complex yet identifiably young

12.00– 2.00 Lunch (Wailana – Ground Floor)

1.00- 2.00 Readings of stories and poetry in Pidgin by members of Bamboo Ridge (Keoni Auditorium)

2.00– 3.30 Session 6A (Keoni Auditorium): Colloquium on Creole Literature 1 (Chair: Susanne Mühleisen)

2.00– 2.30 Ana Deumert: Praatjies and Boerenbrieven - Popular literature as an instrument of normalization and standardization in the history of Afrikaans

2.30– 3.00 Barbara Lalla: Representation and respect: Creole status and Caribbean literature

3.00– 3.30 Timo Lothmann: On functional equivalence: some aspects from the Tok Pisin Bible translation

2.00– 3.30 Session 6B (Sarimanok Room): Acquisition/transmission 1 (Chair: Armin Schwegler)

2.00– 2.30 Tonjes Veenstra: Head ordering in synthetic compounds: Acquisition processes and grammatical theory

2.30– 3.00 Sabine Ehrhart: Pidginization and creolization in the general context of language acquisition – what creolists and acquisitionists can learn from each other

3.00– 3.30 Stephen Matthews & Virginia Yip: Bilingual first language acquisition and the mechanisms of substrate influence

2.00– 3.30 Session 6C (Kaniela Room): Morphosyntax 2 (Chair: John Rickford)

2.00– 2.30 Jorge E. Porras: Temporal frames in narrative discourse: A comparative analysis of three Afro-Iberian creoles

2.30– 3.00 Stephanie Durrleman: The articulation of inflection in Jamaican Creole

3.00– 3.30 Stephanie Hackert: Oral narrative and tense in urban Bahamian Creole English

3.30– 4.00 Break (refreshments in upstairs corridor)

4.00– 5.00 Session 7A (Keoni Auditorium): Colloquium on Creole Literature 1 (Chair: Susanne Mühleisen)

4.00– 4.30 Suzanne Romaine: Orthographic practices in Da Jesus Book. Hawai‘i Pidgin New Testament: How dey wen figga um out?

4.30– 5.00 Maria Cristina Fumagalli & Peter L Patrick: Oral and literate structures in two Caribbean healing narratives

4.00– 5.00 Session 7B (Sarimanok Room): Acquisition/transmission 2 (Chair: Jacques Arends)

4.00– 4.30 Michel DeGraff: “Creolization” is acquisition

4.30– 5.00 Anthony J. Naro & Maria M.P. Scherre: The concept of irregular linguistic transmission and the structural origins of Brazilian Portuguese

4.00– 5.00 Session 7C (Kaniela Room): Morphosyntax 3 (Chair: Karl Gadelii)

4.00– 4.30 Dany Adone: Reduplication in creoles and sign languages

4.30– 5.00 Valeri Khabirov: Morphological changes in Sango: From the ethnic language to the creolized language.

7.15– 9.30 Conference dinner (Sunset Lanai, Ocean Terrace Restaurant, Sheraton Waikiki Resort)

Sunday, August 17

8.00– 9.00 Breakfast (Lanai)

9.00–12.45 Plenary 3 followed by Colloquium on Derek Bickerton’s Contributions to Creolistics and Related Fields (Keoni Auditorium) (Chair: Gillian Sankoff)

9.00– 9.40 Plenary 3

Derek Bickerton: Refuting the Bioprogram is easy...

9.40–10.10 Genevieve Escure: Bickerton and lectal dynamics

10.10–10.40 Salikoko S. Mufwene: The development of creoles in Hawai‘i and the Caribbean:
How similar were the ecologies?

10.40–11.00 Break (refreshments on Lanai)

11.00–11.30 John Schumann: Language evolution

11.30–12.00 John Victor Singler: The Language Bioprogram Hypothesis and history

12.00–12.20 Reply by Derek Bickerton

12.20–12.45 General discussion