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 |