SCL Conference Schedule

Thursday 15th August, 2002



Society for Caribbean Linguistics Conference 2002 Thursday 15th August

 

Session 1 1A 1B  
TIME

VENUE 1:

LRC AUDITORIUM  A

CHAIR: Walter EDWARDS

VENUE 2

LRC AUDITORIUM B

CHAIR:  Velma POLLARD

 

9:00 – 10:30   SIMMONS-McDONALD, Hazel.  The Effects of Vernacular Instruction on the Development of Bi-Literacy Abilities of Native Speakers of French Creole GOODEN, Shelome.  Past Time Reference in Belizean Creole  
  TAYLOR, Monica.  Pragmatic Devoicing: Silence in the Classroom Even Amidst the Din  HACKERT, Stephanie.  Past Marking in Urban Bahamian Creole English: From Stativity to Discourse Principles
  CRAIG, Dennis. /laik yu nu waan mi pikni fi laan di waitmaan langwij!/ or Creole, without Controversy, in West Indian Education STEWART, Michele M. The Garammatical Status of TMA Markers in Jamaican Creole
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Session 2: 2A   2B    
TIME  

VENUE 1:

LRC AUDITORIUM A

CHAIR:  Lise WINER

VENUE 2: 

LRC AUDITORIUM B

CHAIR: Peter PATRICK

 
10:45 – 12:15   COLOT, Serge.  Past and Present Strategies of Lexical Expansion in Guadeloupean and Martinican Creole: From Borrowing to Creating MUFWENE, Salikoko.  Socio-Economic Historical Arguments for a Gradual and Heterogeneous Development of Patois in Jamaica  
  POLLARD, Velma & Samuel FURÉ DAVIS.  Imported Topics, Foreign Vocabularies – Dread Talk, The Cuban Connection WINFORD, Donald. Creole Formation and Second Language Acquisition   
    EDWARDS, Walters.  The Zero Copula in Urban Guyanese Creole (UGC) and AAVE: Implications for the Origins Debate  
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Session 3:   3A   3B   3C  
1:45 – 3:15   Venue 1: 

LRC AUDITORIUM A

CHAIR: Silvia KOUWENBERG

Venue 2: 

LRC AUDITORIUM B

CHAIR: Winford JAMES

Venue 3: 

LRC AUDITORIUM C

CHAIR: Valerie YOUSSEF

 

SCHNEIDER, Edgar and Christian WAGNER.  Literary Dialect of Jamaican Creole: A Variationist Analysis of Thelwell’s The Harder They Come

JAGANAUTH, Dhanis.  The Transitivity of Serial Verb Constructions HAREWOOD, Alana.  Rethinking Linguistics, Gender Stereotypes: Fact or Fantasy
HODGE, Merle. Language in Early Trinidadian Fiction  ESSEGBEY, James. Cut and Break Verbs in Sranan MIGGE, Bettina.  Code-Mixing, Gender and Social Identities among Eastern Maroons
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Session 4:  

4A   4B    

3:30 – 5:00  

VENUE 1: 

LRC AUDITORIUM A

CHAIR: Kathryn SHILEDS-BRODBER

VENUE 2:

LRC AUDITORIUM B

CHAIR:  Salikoko MUFWENE 

  MÜHLEISEN, Susanne. Negotiating Creole Prestige in the Urban Diaspora: An Intergenerational Perspective HOLBROOK, David.  Prepositions in Tobagonian Creole with Special Attention to the Functions to the Preposition "a"
BRYAN, Beverly.  Making Language Visible: Language Awareness in a Creole-Speaking Environment BRUYN, Adrienne.  The Development of Attributive Deictic Items in Sranan: Internal and External Factors
  NILES, Keren.  Cross-Cultural Problems of Understanding in Everyday Interaction in the Caribbean  PRESCOD, Paula. Indefinite Pronouns in Vincentian Creole and English: A Comparative Approach  
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TIME

POSTER SESSIONS

5:00 - 5:45

MOODIE-KUBLASINGH, Sylvia, Esperanza, LUENGO, Alexis PEREZ, & Pedro CARDOZO (CLL).  Teaching Children a Second Language: The Case of Spanish at a Primary School in Trinidad
  CARTER, Beverly-Anne. Language is...Different Things to Different People

 

EVENING ACTIVITIES
TIME Book Launch and Cultural Evening

Venue: Centre for Language Learning (CLL)

7:30
  • The Caribbean Multilingual Dictionary of Flora, Fauna and Foods - Jeannette Allsopp
  • Ivory Towers - R.B. Le Page
  • The Languages of Tobago: Genesis, Structure and Perspectives - Winford James and Valerie Youssef
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