| 09.30 – 10.30 |
John McWhorter (Columbia University)
Is the Creole Prototype Hypothesis Wrong? [pdf] |
| 10.30 – 11.00 |
coffee break |
| 11.00 – 11.45 |
Pieter Muysken & Margot van den Berg & Kofi Yakpo & Norval Smith (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Feature distribution in the Benin-Surinam Transatlantic Sprachbund [pdf] |
| 11.45 – 12.30 |
Peter Bakker (Århus University) & Mikael Parkvall
(University of Stockholm)
Pidgins in a typological perspective |
| 12.30 – 14.00 |
lunch break |
| 14.00 – 14.45 |
Ian Smith (York University)
Grammaticalization paths in creole & non-creole languages: the case of passive [pdf] |
| 14.45 – 15.30 |
Bart Jacobs (University of Munich)
Morphologically marked passivization in Atlantic Creoles [pdf] |
| 15.30 – 16.00 |
coffee break |
| 16.00 – 17.00 |
Susanne Michaelis (University of Gießen & MPI-EVA)
How does sampling of languages and features influence our view of creoles? |
| 18.00 |
For those who are interested: Motette in St. Thomas Church (2€ entrance fee) |
| 19.30 |
Dinner at Auerbachs Keller (Mädlerpassage, Grimmaische Straße 2-4) |
| 22.00 |
For those who are interested: MDR Choir "Nachtgesang" at St.Peters Church (entrance free) |
| 09.30 – 10.15 |
Aymeric Daval-Markussen (Århus University)
Weighing the contribution of substrates and superstrates: another take [pdf] |
| 10.15 – 11.00 |
Peter Bakker & Aymeric Daval-Markussen & Mikael Parkvall & Ingo Plag (University of Siegen)
Creoles are typologically distinct from non-creoles: evidence from statistical and computational modeling [pdf] |
| 11.00 – 11.30 |
coffee break |
| 11.30 – 12.15 |
Tom Klingler (Tulane University)
Demonstratives in Louisiana Creole: New Insights from Work on the APiCS Project |
| 12.15 – 13.00 |
Hein van der Voort (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Eskimo Pidgin: Sociolinguistic and structural aspects of a pidgin 'continuum' [pdf] |
| 13.00 – 14.30 |
lunch break |
| 14.30 – 15.15 |
William Foley (University of Sydney)
The Development of Yimas-Arafundi Pidgin: Simplification and Information |
| 15.15 – 16.00 |
Harald Hammarström (Radboud University Nijmegen & MPI-EVA)
A note on Duvle-Wano Pidgin |
| 16.00-16.30 |
coffee break |
| 16.30-17.00 |
Mikael Parkvall (Stockholm University)
Français-Tirailleur - the
language that didn't make it into Apics |
| 17.00-18.00 |
Kerstin Lunkenheimer (University of Freiburg)
Presentation of eWAVE (World Atlas of Variation of English)
The editors & Hagen Jung (MPI-EVA)
Towards APiCS online |
| 19.30 |
Dinner at Pizzeria La Grotta (Ratsfreischulstrasse 6-8) |
