Creole and pidgin language structure in cross-linguistic perspective

August 18-19, 2013

Sunday, 18 August
University, Lecture Hall 8, 2nd floor

14.30-14.45	Susanne Maria Michaelis (MPI-EVA), Philippe Maurer (Zurich) & Martin Haspelmath (MPI-EVA): Introduction
14.45-15.30	Jeff Good (University at Buffalo): Patterns of grammatical complexity in pidgins and creoles [Abstract]
15.30-16.00	Ulrike Zeshan (University of Central Lankashire): Accelerated pidgin development without a lexifier language - a study of "cross-signing" in a multilingual sign language contact situation
16.00-16.45	coffee break
16.45-17.15	Tonjes Veenstra (Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin): Clefts in Creoles
17.15-17.45	Anthony Grant (Edge Hill University): Dret Xlu’ima (very different)?: Chinuk Wawa from a comparative perspective [Abstract]
18.00-18.45	APiCS Editors & Robert Forkel (MPI-EVA): Presentation of APiCS Online

9.15-10.00	Claire Lefebvre (UQAM): What can we learn from cross-linguistic comparisons of creoles? [Abstract]
10.00-10.30	David Gil (MPI-EVA): Core Argument Flagging and TAM Marking in Sign Languages and Other Young Languages [Abstract]
10.30-11.00	coffee break
11.00-11.30	Felicity Meakins (University of Queensland) & Carmel O'Shannessy (University of Michigan): Typological constraints on verb integration in Gurindji Kriol and Light Warlpiri
11.30-12.00	John Holm (Coimbra University): Copulas in Atlantic creoles and other languages [Abstract]
12.00-12.30	Eeva Sippola (Aarhus University): Phylogenetic network analysis of Iberian creoles [Abstract]
12.30-13.45	lunch break
13.45-14.30	Peter Bakker (Aarhus University): The typology of creoles: are there any non-European lexifier creoles?
14.30-15.00	Stephen Matthews (University of Hong Kong): Are Singlish and Hawaiian Creole typologically distinct? [Abstract]
15.00-15.30	Philippe Maurer (University of Zurich): Take-serials in the light of APiCS [Abstract]
15.30-16.00	break
16.00-16.30	Eva Schultze-Berndt (University of Manchester): The semantics of modal markers in Northern Australian Kriol [Abstract]
16.30-17.00	Susanne Maria Michaelis, Martin Haspelmath & Damián Blasi (MPI-EVA): Grammatical simplicity in a cross-linguistic perspective: APiCS meets WALS [Abstract]