Research

Papers
2010	Possibility Modality in Saamáka' in: Lima, Suzi (ed) UMOP 41: Proceedings of SULA V, p 243-257
2008	'I músu fu woóko taánga: Restructuring in Saamáka' in: Svenonius, Peter (ed) Tromsø University Working Papers in Languages and Linguistics 35.1, Special issue on Complex Predicates (Nordlyd)
2006b	'Prepositions in Krio' in: Svenonius, Peter (ed) Tromsø University Working Papers in Languages and Linguistics 33.2, special issue on Adpositions (Nordlyd), pp. 234-252
2006a	'Population movements, colonial control and vowel systems' (with Norval Smith) in: Bhatt, Parth, and Ingo Plag (eds) The structure of Creole words: Segmental, syllabic and morphological aspects. Tübingen: Niemeyer
2004	'Saramaccan: Grammatical particles in an isolating language' in Hengeveld, Kees (ed) Working Papers in Functional Grammar 79, pp. 23-33
Presentations
2011d	Future reference: Tense or Modality? The view from Saamáka Creole Grammars & Linguistic Theories, Paris, June 23/24.
2011c	The interaction of Tense and Modality in Saamáka Temporal, Modal and Event Interpretation in Natural Language Discourse, University of Azores, June 16/18.
2011b	The interaction of the event description and the expression of modality in Saamáka CASTL Colloquium, University of Tromsø, April 14.
2011a	How to account for the stative vs. dynamic distinction with regard to temporal interpretation in Saamáka Syntax Lab, Leiden University, March 3.
2010f	The decomposition of counterfactuatlity in Saamáka Formal Approaches to Creole Studies II, ZAS, Berlin, November 8/9.
2010e	To bi or not to bi: A pronominal analysis for past tense in Saamáka Workshop on Tense and Aspect in Generative Grammar, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, July 1/2.
2010d	The unmarked verb form compared: Saamáka vs Sranan Surinamese creole workshop, Ohio State University, May 28.
2010c	Possibility and necessity modals in Gbe, Sranan and Saamáka (with James Essegbey and Margot van den Berg) Surinamese creole workshop, Ohio State University, May 28.
2010b	The influence of the event description on the modal base Mood and modality in the indigenous languages of the Americas, University Leiden, March 25/26.
2010a	Mysteries unravelled: the present Perfect in Saamáka Temporalite: typologie et acquisition, CNRS Pouchet Paris, March 11/12.
2009b	Past Time Reference in Saamáka 9th meeting of Chronos, University Paris-Diderot, September 2/4.
2009a	Possibility Modality in Saamáka Semantics of Under-represented Languages in the Americas V, MIT/Harvard University, May 15-17.
2008	Saamáka and the hierarchy of functional heads 8th meeting of Chronos, University of Texas at Austin, October 3/5.
2007b	A particle more or less: What can a comparison of Saamáka and Sranan Tense, Mood and Aspect systems teach us? Joint Summer Meeting of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics and the Associaçäo de Crioulos de Base Lexical Portugesa e Espanhola, Universiteit van Amsterdam, June 18/20.
2007a	A sa kë? Modality in Saamáka 2nd workshop on Creole Languages organised by the Jeunes Chercheurs sur les Langues Creoles, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III, June 1.
2006b	Directional prepositions in Krio 36th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics, University Leiden, August 28/30.
2006a	Adpositions in Krio Seventh Creolistic Workshop: Simplicity and complexity in pidgins and creoles, University of Giessen, April 6/8.
2005	Shared Features among Atlantic English-based Creoles Search Colloquium at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, January 21.
2004	Morphology in Functional Discourse Grammar Functional Grammar Colloquium, University of Amsterdam, March.
2003	A historical explanation for the difference between English-lexifier Creoles with Surinam-type vowel-systems and Jamaican-type vowel systems (with Norval Smith) International Workshop on the Phonology and Morphology of Creole Languages, University of Siegen, October 8/10.