Program

Friday November 14

from 9:00   Registration
9:45   Welcome
10:00-11:00 Alain Kihm Inflectional scarcity in pidgins and creoles: what it tells us about the inner structure of words and more
Kaffe
11:30-12:15 Muhsina Alleesaib Se/sa-ki as head of relativised determiner phrases in Mauritian
12:15-13:00 Nélia Alexandre Resumptive versus defective wh-chains in Capeverdean Creole
Lunsj
14:15-15:00 Andrea Tarantola The nature of the inflectional system in Cape Verdean Creole
15:00-15:45 Parth Bhatt & Emmanuel Nikiema Is Haitian Creole really a CV language?
Te
16:15-17:00 Yolanda Rivera-Castillo Vowel Harmony and Feature-Value Underspecification
17:00-17:45 Tjerk Hagemeijer Negation in the Gulf of Guinea Creoles in the light of (creole) typology

Saturday November 15

9:30-10:15 Viviane Depréz On the conceptual role of number marking in French Based Creoles
10:15-11:00 Olga Borik & Fernanda Pratas Stativity and temporal interpretation in Capeverdean Creole
Kaffe
11:30-12:15 Stephanie Durrleman Nominal Architecture in Jamaican Creole
12:15-13:00 Tonjes Veenstra Questions in Creoles: implications for the cartographic approach
Lunsj
14:15-15:00 Marlyse Baptista & Miki Obata Grammaticalization effects on complementizers: A comparative analysis of creole languages
15:00-15:45 Benjamin Braithwaite A formal account of adjectives and verbs in creole languages
Te
16:15-17:15 Hans den Besten What constitutes evidence for substrate (or: adstrate) influences in Afrikaans?
19:00   Workshop dinner in Globus