Formal approaches to creole studies II

November 8-9, 2010
Centre for General Linguistics, Berlin

Invited speakers:
John Lumsden, Université du Québec à Montréal
Norval Smith, University of Amsterdam

This workshop is a follow-up of the successful FACS-Workshop, held at CASTL, University of Tromsø, November 14-15 2008. The goal of the workshop is to bring together scholars who share an interest in the formal study of creole languages. Highlighting the more formal issues surrounding creole formation may help us in furthering our understanding how pidgin and creole languages come into being as well as why their grammatical properties are the way they are. At the same time, it may foster the interaction between theoretical linguists and researchers 'in the field'. We therefore invite abstracts that address theoretical and formal aspects in Creole Studies, from all the subfields of generative research, syntax, semantics, phonology, and morphology.

Please note that after this workshop there will be two related conferences at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig of interest to creolists:

Wednesday Nov 10: Past present and future of Sri Lanka Malay.
Nov 11-14: 2nd APiCS Conference.

Organisers:
Tonjes Veenstra, Centre for General Linguistics
Marleen van de Vate, University of Tromsø