Programme and participants

For a list of abstracts accepted for presentation see below. Wherever a handout/presentation is available, it has been linked to the title of the talk. Note that this material may not be distributed or quoted without the explicit consent of the author.

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Aboh, Enoch (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

• Why creole languages can't be different languages (plenary lecture)

Akanlig-Pare, George (University of Ghana), Mohammed, Sadat (University of Ghana)

• Ghanaian Hausa: a creole or a pidgin?

Akinremi, Ihouma (University of Jos, Nigeria)

• Towards a grammatical theory of codeswitching: The case of Igbo-English bilinguals

Amadichukwu, Prince (Our Soil Africa Foundation, Nigeria)

• The situation of language in Africa: Will Pidgin language survive?

Ameka, Felix (University of Leiden, The Netherlands)

• Multilingualism, contact and covergence on the West African littoral: implications for Trans-Atlantic Sprachbund (plenary lecture)

Anchimbe, Eric A. (University of Bayreuth, Germany)

• Blaming in Cameroon Pidgin English and Cameroon English: Use of inclusive and exclusive pronouns

Anchimbe, Eric A. (University of Bayreuth, Germany), Anderson, Jemima A. (University of Ghana), Dzahene-Quarshie, Josephine (University of Ghana)

• Attitudes towards Pidgin English in Ghana: Between the young and the old

Anderson, Jemima (University of Ghana), Osei-Tutu, Kwaku O. A. (University of Ghana)

• Attitudes towards Pidgin English in Ghana

Ativie, C. Ailende (Novena University, Nigeria)

• Cultural influences as inputs of development of Nigeria Pidgin

Ayafor, Miriam (University of Yaoundé I), Green, Melanie (University of Sussex)

• Traces of contact: serial verb constructions in Cameroon Pidgin English (Kamtok)

Baku, Kofi (University of Ghana, New York University Accra)

• African agency, forts and castles and the African slave trade in the Gold Coast (plenary lecture)

Bartens, Angela (University of Helsinki, Finland)

• Akan substrate influence on three Western Caribbean Creoles revisited, Handout

Benítez-Torres, Carlos M. (SIL International, USA)

• The pragmatics of Berber and Songhay vocabulary in Tagdal: A Northern Songhay language

Blaxter Paliwala, Adam (University of Sydney, Australia)

• Tok Pisin and English in Papua New Guinea - the value of census data

Borges, Robert (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)

• Ritual language formation and African retentions in Suriname

Botchway, De-Valera N.Y.M. (University of Cape Coast, Ghana)

• Ma Tsalé, weh ting koraa be Pidgin blé? A note on the origin and socio-linguistic uses of Pidgin English among students in Ghana

Corum, Micah (Linguistic Diversity Management in Urban Areas, Hamburg, Germany)

• Resuscitating the Domestic Origin Hypothesis: A componential approach to the study of locative constructions in Nigerian Pidgin

Dako, Kari (University of Ghana), Yitah, Helen (University of Ghana)

• Pidgin and stereotyping in Ghanaian literary texts

Dako, Kari (University of Ghana), Henaku, Nancy (University of Ghana)

• An analysis of nominal structures in Student Pidgin

Dakubu, Mary Esther (University of Ghana)

• The birth of languages in Ghana: contact the onlie begetter? (plenary lecture)

Dawkins, Nickesha (University of the West Indies)

• Art imitating life: Social issues that may account for linguistic style as it relates to male identity and dominance within dancehall music

Egbokhare, Francis (University of Ibadan, Nigeria)

• Beyond chance, sentiments, and prejudice. Engaging the challenges of Nigerian Pidgin development (plenary lecture)

Escure, Genevieve (University of Minnesota, USA)

• African traces in Belizean negatives

Esizimetor, David Oshorenoya (University of Ibadan, Nigeria)

• A Study of the history and structure of Naijá words

Faraclas, Nicholas; Darlene Albert, Dámarys Crespo, Sally Delgado, Candida González López, Hannia Lao, Diana Ursulin, Aida Vergne (University of Puerto Rico)

• Fresh evidence concerning African agency in the emergence of the Atlantic Creoles

Farquharson, Joseph T. (University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago)

• Aspectual reduplication in Jamaican and Akan

Ferrari, Aurelia (University of Ghana)

• Language contact in Swahili of Lubumbashi (DRC): A case of linguistic flexibility

Finney, Malcolm (California State University Long Beach, USA)

• Accounting for creolization within the declarative/procedural framework: The case of Sierra Leone Krio

Gaudio, Rudolf (State University of New York, USA)

• Nation of a thousand laughs: stand-up comedy, Nigerian Pidgin, and the public sphere

González López, Candida (University of Puerto Rico)

• Language use in spiritual practices, clandestine cultural resistance and Creole genesis

Götz, Sandra (University of Giessen, Germany)

• The role of second language acquisition in the genesis of pidgins and creoles: Typological parallels and disparities

Grant, Anthony (Edge Hill University, United Kingdom)

• A Nuclear Micronesian-based pidgin from the early 19th century: Horace Holden's 'language of Tobi'

Guillemin, Diana (Griffith University, Australia)

• Mauritian la vs. Seselwa i: Traces of French vs. Bantu influence?

Gyasi-Ofori, Stephen (University of Ghana)

• A descriptive study of serial verb vonstruction in Student Pidgin English: A case of University of Ghana students

Hanenberg, Stanley (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)

• Language attitude and language use of Afro-Surinamese in Suriname

Henry, Audene (University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica)

• Establishing the Kromanti - Akan Link: Evidence from the occurrence of phonemic /r/

Holm, John (Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal)

• An 18th-century novel from the Miskito Coast: What was creolized?

Huber, Magnus (University of Giessen, Germany), Martin Haspelmath, Susanne Michaelis (Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany), Philippe Maurer (Zurich, Switzerland)

• Substrate traces, superstrate traces and universals in Atlantic pidgins and creoles. Findings based on the Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures with a special focus on Africa

Huber, Magnus (University of Giessen, Germany), Schmidt, Sebastian (University of Giessen, Germany)

• Investigating the history of Pidgin English. Early Highlife recordings from Ghana

Huber, Magnus (University of Giessen, Germany), Velupillai, Viveka (University of Giessen, Germany)

• German colonial sources and the history of West African Pidgin English. A first analysis of the holdings of the of the Deutsche Kolonialbibliothek

Ifukor, Presley (University of Osnabrueck, Germany )

• Nigerian Pidgin and interdiscursivity in the new media

Iwuchukwu, Godwin C.S. (Department of Linguistics and Communication Studies, Nigeria), Okafor, Monica (Ebonyi State College of Education, Nigeria)

• Nigerian Pidgin in the 21st century: Any hope of surviving the opposition from English, Nigerian languages and foreign languages?

Kerswill, Paul (Lancaster University, UK), Sebba, Mark (Lancaster University, UK)

• From London Jamaican to British youth language: The transformation of a Caribbean post-creole repertoire into a new Multicultural London English
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Kihm, Alain (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, France)

• Morphological complexity in pidgins-creoles: Portuguese-related Pidgins-Creoles from a realizational perspective

Kisembe Darkwah, Lynn (All Nations University College, Koforidua, Ghana)

 

• Language contact: The case of Sheng

Klein, Thomas B. (Georgia Southern University, USA)

• Arabic and indigenous West African traces in Middle Caicos Creole English

Korsah, Sampson (University of Ghana)

• Akan with Ga accent in Accra: A preliminary survey

Krämer, Philipp (Universität Potsdam, Germany)

• 19th century French creolistics: Paradigms of racist determinism in philological research

Kwesi, Richmond (University of Ghana), Korsah, Sampson (University of Ghana), Paauw, Scott (University of Rochester, USA)

• Language contact in Ghana

Leglise, Isabelle (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, SEDYL-CELIA, France), Migge, Bettina (University College Dublin, Ireland)

• Creoles in contact in French Guiana & Suriname: Implications for language documentation

Loos, Cornelia (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

• Quite a mouthful: The influence of language contact on linguistic action verbs in sign language of the Netherlands

Managan, Kathe (Louisiana State University, USA)

• Performing authority in Guadeloupean Kréyòl comedy

Mann, Charles (Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa)

• North and South: Attitudes towards Anglo-Nigerian Pidgin in urban Nigeria

Mbagwu, Davidson (Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria), Eme, Cecilia (Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria)

• A question on the superstrate and substrate in the Nigerian Pidgin

McPhee, Helean (The College of The Bahamas)

• A trace of contact: Morphological reduplication in Bahamian Creole

Mensah, Eyo (University of Calabar, Nigeria)

• Grammaticalization in Nigerian Pidgin

Mensah, Eyo (University of Calabar, Nigeria), Etteh, Caroline (University of Uyo, Nigeria)

• Proverbs in Nigerian Pidgin

Mitchell, Edward (Macao Polytechnic Institute, Macao), Ursulin, Diana (University of Puerto Rico)

• The roles of gender and education in questions of language choice and attitudes in a creolophone community

Moody, Simanique (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)

• Traces of contact in African American English varieties in Southeast Georgia

Mowarin, Macaulay (Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria)

• Sentential negation in Nigeria Pidgin

Mühleisen, Susanne (University of Bayreuth, Germany), Drescher, Martina (University of Bayreuth, Germany)

• Advice in Cameroon: Global and local influences of linguistic practices in a postcolonial environment

Mutambwa, Mulumbwa Georges (University of Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo)

• Codeswitching and language mixing strategies in cosmopolitan towns: A daily practice in social interactions in Lubumbashi city (DR Congo)

Ndimele, Roseline (Abia State University Uturu, Nigeria)

• Communication problems of Nigerian Pidgin speakers

Ng, E-Ching (Yale University, USA)

• Creole exceptionalism via transmission: The weak-to-strong harmony gap

Obiamalu, Greg (Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria)

• Inflectional categories and V-movement in the Nigerian Pidgin (Wàfì)

Ofulue, Christine (National Open University of Nigeria)

• Nigerian Pidgin and West African Pidgins: a sociolinguistic perspective

Robertson, Ian (The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago)

• Morphological simplification of the substrate in Creole formation

Schneider, Edgar W. (University of Regensburg, Germany)

• Searching for traces of contact: Negation patterns in nineteenth-century African American English

Scott, Nicole (The University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica), Evans, Sandra (The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago)

• The African Influence on TMA Marking in Antillean French-lexicon Creoles

Siegel, Jeff (University of New England, Australia; Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany), Szmrecsanji, Benedikt (Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany), Kortmann, Bernd (University of Freiburg, Germany)

• Measuring analyticity and syntheticity in pidgin and creole languages

Singler, John Victor (New York University, USA)

• Stereotypes, stigma, and agency in Vernacular Liberian English

Sippola, Eeva (University of Helsinki, Finland)

• Functions of the causative hasé in Chabacano

Stolberg, Doris (Institut für deutsche Sprache, Mannheim, Germany)

• Tracing the effects of colonial contact: German words in Tok Pisin dictionaries (for list of dictionaries and word lists consulted, click here )

van den Berg, Margot (Radboud University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands), Amuzu, Evershed (University of Ghana), Yevudey, Elvis (University of Ghana)

• On toys, Early Sranan and contemporary bilingual discourse in West Africa: A comparison of adjectivization strategies

van den Berg, Margot (Radboud University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands), Essizewa, Komlan (University of Lomé, Togo), Tagba, Kamailoudini (University of Lomé, Togo)

• Temporal relations in bilingual discourse in West Africa, Suriname and the Netherlands: Implications for creole formation

Walicek, Don (University of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico)

• Contemplating ethnic identity and Creole emergence: A focus on Anguilla

Wiredu, John Franklin (University of Ghana)

• The dependent clause in Ghanaian Pidgin English

Yakpo, Kofi (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)

• Language contact and the differentiation of the Afro-Caribbean English-lexifier Creoles