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FOURTEENTH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE

THEME
"Caribbean Linguistics: Theory and Application"

Trinidad and Tobago, August 2002

 


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The Department of Liberal Arts, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, hosted the 14th Biennial Conference of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics in the thirtieth anniversary of the Society.

The theme of the Conference was "Caribbean Linguistics: Theory and Application" and within this broad theme there were papers that considered theoretical and practical language and linguistics issues. In addition to the purely theoretical dimensions, sub-areas that were addressed included language acquisition and learning, issues of class, ethnic and gender sensitisation, and materials production. In addition to the Conference papers, the programme included pre-conference workshops and colloquia.  The latter were specially designed to cater to individuals and groups interested in language, culture and education in the Caribbean context.  The colloquia considered issues of language education for both natives of the Caribbean as well as those from Latin America, recognising English as a Foreign Language as a burgeoning field in the region. Cultural events highlighting the diverse culture of Trinidad & Tobago were scheduled for conference participants. 

 

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Thursday 15 August 2002

Session 1 1A 1B
TIME

VENUE 1:

LRC AUDITORIUM  A

CHAIR : Walter EDWARDS

VENUE 2 : 

LRC AUDITORIUM B

CHAIR: Velma POLLARD

9:00 – 10:30 SIMMONS-McDONALD, Hazel.  The Effects of Vernacular Instruction on the Development of Bi-Literacy Abilities of Native Speakers of French Creole GOODEN , Shelome. Past Time Reference in Belizean Creole
TAYLOR, Monica.  Pragmatic Devoicing: Silence in the Classroom Even Amidst the Din  HACKERT , Stephanie. Past Marking in Urban Bahamian Creole English: From Stativity to Discourse Principles
CRAIG, Dennis. /laik yu nu waan mi pikni fi laan di waitmaan langwij!/ or Creole, without Controversy, in West Indian Education STEWART , Michele M. The Grammatical Status of TMA Markers in Jamaican Creole
Session 2: 2A 2B
TIME

VENUE 1:

LRC AUDITORIUM A

CHAIR: Lise WINER

VENUE 2: 

LRC AUDITORIUM B

CHAIR: Peter PATRICK

10:45 – 12:15 COLOT , Serge. Past and Present Strategies of Lexical Expansion in Guadeloupean and Martinican Creole: From Borrowing to Creating MUFWENE, Salikoko. Socio-Economic Historical Arguments for a Gradual and Heterogeneous Development of Patois in Jamaica
POLLARD, Velma & Samuel FURÉ DAVIS . Imported Topics, Foreign Vocabularies – Dread Talk, The Cuban Connection WINFORD , Donald. Creole Formation and Second Language Acquisition
EDWARDS , Walters. The Zero Copula in Urban Guyanese Creole (UGC) and AAVE: Implications for the Origins Debate
Session 3: 3A 3B 3C
1:45 – 3:15 Venue 1: 

LRC AUDITORIUM A

CHAIR: Silvia KOUWENBERG

Venue 2: 

LRC AUDITORIUM B

CHAIR: Winford JAMES

Venue 3: 

LRC AUDITORIUM C

C HAIR : Valerie YOUSSEF

SCHNEIDER , Edgar and Christian WAGNER . Literary Dialect of Jamaican Creole: A Variationist Analysis of Thelwell's The Harder They Come

JAGANAUTH , Dhanis. The Transitivity of Serial Verb Constructions HAREWOOD , Alana.  Rethinking Linguistics, Gender Stereotypes: Fact or Fantasy
HODGE, Merle. Language in Early Trinidadian Fiction  ESSEGBEY , James. Cut and Break Verbs in Sranan MIGGE, Bettina. Code-Mixing, Gender and Social Identities among Eastern Maroons

Session 4:

4A 4B

3:30 – 5:00

VENUE 1: 

LRC AUDITORIUM A

CHAIR: Kathryn SHILEDS-BRODBER

VENUE 2:

LRC AUDITORIUM B

CHAIR: Salikoko MUFWENE 

MÜHLEISEN, Susanne. Negotiating Creole Prestige in the Urban Diaspora: An Intergenerational Perspective HOLBROOK, David.  Prepositions in Tobagonian Creole with Special Attention to the Functions to the Preposition "a"
BRYAN, Beverly.  Making Language Visible: Language Awareness in a Creole-Speaking Environment BRUYN, Adrienne.  The Development of Attributive Deictic Items in Sranan: Internal and External Factors
NILES, Keren.  Cross-Cultural Problems of Understanding in Everyday Interaction in the Caribbean  PRESCOD, Paula. Indefinite Pronouns in Vincentian Creole and English: A Comparative Approach

TIME

POSTER SESSIONS

5:00 - 5:45

MOODIE-KUBLASINGH , Sylvia, Esperanza, LUENGO , Alexis PEREZ, & Pedro CARDOZO (CLL).  Teaching Children a Second Language: The Case of Spanish at a Primary School in Trinidad
CARTER, Beverly-Anne. Language is...Different Things to Different People
EVENING ACTIVITIES
TIME Book Launch and Cultural Evening

Venue: Centre for Language Learning (CLL)

7:30
  • The Caribbean Multilingual Dictionary of Flora, Fauna and Foods - Jeannette Allsopp
  • Ivory Towers - R.B. Le Page
  • The Languages of Tobago: Genesis, Structure and Perspectives - Winford James and Valerie Youssef

Friday 16th August, 2002

Session 5 5A 5B 5C
TIME

VENUE 1:

LRC AUDITORIUM A

CHAIR: Monica TAYLOR

VENUE 2: 

LRC AUDITORIUM B

CHAIR: Hubert DEVONISH

VENUE 3: 

LRC AUDITORIUM C

CHAIR: Hazel SIMMONS-MCDONALD

9:00 – 10:30 FIELD, Frederic.  Second Language Acquisition in the Emergence of Creoles: Implication for Educators LEWIS, Anthony.  The Silent Victims of Lenition: Giving a [voice] to /p, t, k/ in Modern Caribbean Spanish ZAMOR , Helene. A Historical and Linguistic Analysis of Gwo Ka Music and Dance
STEELE , Godfrey . Towards an Interdisciplinary Pedagogical Concept of Communicative/ Communication Competence CHILDS, Becky.  Phonological Accommodation in Bahamian English Dialect Communities: An Examination of Consonantal Variables ROGERS , Ferne Louanna. Diglossia and the Calypso
KOUWENBERG, Silvia. Bringing Language Awareness into the High School Curriculum: the Opportunities Offered by CAPE Communication Studies HARRY, Otelemate. The Phonology of Bi-Vocalic Nucleus in Jamaican Creole YOUSSEF, Valerie. Reconciling Systems, Principles and Strategies in Developing Varilingualism
Session 6: 6A 6B
TIME

VENUE 1:

LRC AUDITORIUM A

CHAIR : Velma POLLARD

VENUE 2:

LRC AUDITORIUM B

CHAIR: Barbara LALLA

10:45 – 12:15 WINER, Lise. Preparation of the Dictionary of English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago : Selected Problem Areas BROWN-BLAKE, Celia. "Mi kyaan riid": Language, Literacy and the Peter Blake Principle
FRANK , David. St. Lucian Creole Vocabulary of Origin other than French, with Special Attention Given to Vocabulary neither of English Origin SHIELDS- BRODBER, Kathryn.  The Prosecution Now Calls John Doe  
ALLSOPP , Jeannette. The Making of a Caribbean Multilingual Dictionary. DRAY, Suan. "A Yard We Deh": The Uses of Creole on Roadside Texts in Jamaica
Session 7: 7A 7B 7C
1:45 – 3:15

VENUE 1:

LRC AUDITORIUM A

CHAIR: Jeff SIEGEL

VENUE 2: 

LRC AUDITORIUM B

CHAIR: Mervyn ALLEYNE

VENUE 3: 
LRC AUDITORIUM C
CHAIR : Edgar SCHNEIDER
FERGUSSON , Ann.  A Study of Written Discourse of 11-12 Year Old Barbadian Students: The Effect of Learner-Centredness on Writing Anxiety   FERREIRA , Jo-Anne .  Death of an Immigrant Language: The Case of Portuguese in Trinidad  HINRICHS, Lars. Patois and E-mail:A Study of New Creole Writing Practices Developed by Jamaican University Students
JAMES, Winford. Errors as Signatures of Routine and New Language: 2 Tobagonian Examples DECKER, Ken. Moribund English: The Case of Gustavia English, St. Barth é lemy, FWI PATRICK , Peter & Esther FIGUEROA . Kiss-Teeth: Creole Paralinguistics in the Americas.
LaCHARITE, Darlène.  Phonetic vs. Phonological Adaptation in Loanwords: A Clue to the L2 Proficiency of Borrowers  FORRESTER, Clive . Factors in the Survival of Maroon Creole in the Caribbean

Session 8:

8A 8B

3:30 – 5:00

VENUE 1:

LRC AUDITORIUM A

CHAIR: Merle HODGE

VENUE 2: 

LRC AUDITORIUM B

CHAIR: Donald WINFORD

THOMPSON, Riki. African American Vernacular English and Dialect Awareness in English Departments McPHEE, Helean . Method of Classifying Predicate Types in Bahamian
SIEGEL, Jeff. Bringing Creole into the Classroom: Views from Outside the Caribbean REASER, Jeffrey. Copula Absence in Bahamian Speech: Evidence from Ethnically Contrastive Enclaves, Abaco Island, Bahamas
DEVONISH, Hubert & Enita CASTILLO . The Predicate System of Garifuna DONNELLY , Janet. BCE in the Classroom: When the Line Blurs

Saturday 17th August, 2002

Session 9 : 9A
TIME

VENUE 1: 

Student Activity Centre

CHAIR: Dennis CRAIG

9:00 – 10:30 van den BERG, Margot & Enoch ABOH . The Structure of Word-Formation in 18 th Century Sranan, Gungbe, and ‘Old Gbe'
ROBERTSON, Ian.   The Guyana Dutch-lexicon Creoles: Comparison, Contrast and Implications for Creole Genesis
ROBERTS, Peter. The Concept of Lenguaje Criollo
10:45 - 12:00
  • BUSINESS MEETING

VENUE: FHE, Rm. 315

1:45
  • FIELD TRIP - Paramin, a French-lexicon Creole-speaking village in Trinidad's Northern Range
8:00
  • FÊTE 

VENUE: School of Education, ARCON 1

TOUR

  • NORTH COAST TOUR

 

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