Program

Monday November 8 2010

9:00 Introduction
9:30 Invited Speaker: Norval Smith (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Accounting for split nasal allophony in Saramaccan.
10:30 coffee break
10:50 Yolanda Rivera (University of Puerto Rico)
Resolution of Constraint Conflict and the Emergence of Feature-Value Agreement in Creoles.
11:35 Parth Bhatt (University of Toronto)
Syllable structure in Portuguese based Creoles of Africa.
12:20 lunch break
14:00 William Harwood (U. Gent)
Case Syncretism in Jamaican English.
14:45 Muhsina Alleesaib (Université de Paris 8)
A study of the multifunctional item bann in Mauritian.
15:30 Ekaterina Bobyleva (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Variable plural marking and the lexical semantics of (creole) nominal expressions.
16:15 coffee break
16:30 Enoch Aboh (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
From bareness to barness: Some notes on nominal phrases in Gungbe and Haitian Creole.
17:15 Anne Zribi-Hertz & Loïc Jean-Louis (Université de Paris 8/SFL, CNRS)
L(a)and lé in the Matinikè DP: towards a syntactic analysis.
18:00 end of 1st day
19:30 Conference Dinner

Tuesday November 9 2010

9:30 Invited Speaker: John Lumsden (UQAM Montréal)
Creoles, cognition and cognitive science.
10:30 coffee break
10:50 Marleen van de Vate (CASTL Tromsø)
Counterfactuality in Saramaccan.
11:35 Fernanda Pratas (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Pode, debe and kre: some Capeverdean modals are more equal than others
12:20 lunch break
14:00 Tjerk Hagemeijer & Nelia Alexandre (Universidade de Lisboa)
PP-extraction in Wh-constructions: Cape Verdean Creole, Santome, and beyond.
14:45 Marlyse Baptista (University of Michigan) & Miki Obata (Mie University, Japan)
Complementizer-Alternation in Creole Languages: New Evidence for Spec-Head Agreement.
15:30 coffee break
15:50 Fabiola Henri (University of Mauritius) & Olivier Bonami (Paris-Sorbonne/IUF/LLF)
Assessing empirically the inflectional complexity of Mauritian Creole.
16:35 Alain Kihm (Université de Paris 7)
Portuguese and Creole Portuguese inflectional morphologies: an in-depth comparison
17:20 end of workshop
19:00 Dinner