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#2645: Conference panel on Haitian Creole in education (Sat 4/4) in Boston
From: Michel DeGraff <degraff@MIT.EDU>
Those of you in the Boston area may be interested in the forthcoming panel
which will address issues dear to many list members. (Note that all three
panelists are also list members.)
Time: Saturday, 4 March, 10:30-12:30
Venue: George Sherman Union, Boston University, 775 Commonwealth
31st Annual Conference on African Linguistics ("ACAL 2000")
Session 7d: The (mis)education of the Creole speaker
10:30
Michel DeGraff (MIT):
Creole morphology and the morphology of an ideology
11:10
Josiane Hudicourt-Barnes (TERC):
Style of argumentation in Haitian Creole
11:50
Lionel Hogu (Hyde Park School):
Lodyans: a tool to enable success for secondary Haitian students with
Here's the entire conference program
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Boston University is pleased to announce the 31st Annual Conference on
African Linguistics (please notice that sessions 4 through 8 are
included).
31st Annual Conference on African Linguistics ("ACAL 2000"), Boston
University, March 2-5, 2000
Preliminary Program
N.b: all nonplenary talks are 30 minutes plus 10 minutes discussion.
Thursday March 2nd George Sherman Union, 775 Commonwealth Ave.
10 a.m.-Registration: 2nd floor lobby (through Saturday)
Book displays: Ziskind Lounge (through Saturday)
Session 1a
11:40-M.J.C. Echeruo (Syracuse), Igbo gbaa verbs
12:20-A.S. Bobda (Illinois/Yaounde 1), Towards an English pronunciation
atlas for Africa
Session 1c: Literacy 1
11 a.m.-M.A. Mohamed (UTL), Indigenous medium as a tool in education: the
case of Swahili
11:40-S.A. Sow (Niamey), Forces et faiblesses de l'enseignement bilingue
langue officielle/langues nationales: cas du Niger
12:20-T. Moyo (U Zululand), The language-in-education policy and language
politics in Malawi
Session 2a: Syntax
2 p.m.-S. Obeng, E. Yankey (Indiana), Negation in Nzema
2:40- J. Mugane (Ohio), Split categories in Gikuyu
3:20-S. Mchombo (Berkeley), On reciprocals in Bantu and the
syntax-semantics interface
Session 2b: Loan phonology
2 p.m.-M. Bamba (Penn), Deletion of the medial consonant and nasal
stability in Mawukakan
2:40-A. Kawu (Rutgers/Ilorin), Faithfulness and markedness in Benue-Congo
loan phonology
Session 2c: Literacy 2
2 p.m.-I. Diallo (Ouagadougou), J. Hutchison (Boston), Limpact du
franais sur l'enseignement primaire au Burkina Faso
2:40-K. Kone (SUNY-Cortland), Do proverbs constitute Africa's
contribution to philosophy?
3:20-O. Alidou (Cleveland State U), The development of literacies
Plenary session
4:15-Business meeting
Friday March 3nd George Sherman Union, 775 Commonwealth Ave.
Session 3a: Checking theory
9:30-E. Bokamba (Illinois), Head movement, agreement and Case-marking in
Bantu languages
10:10-J.L. Jake (Midlands), Evidence for movement in finite control
structures in Fur
10:50-J. Ndayiragije (W. Ontario), Deriving syntactic ergativity
Session 3b: Tone-bearing units
9:30-M. Mous, K. Traore (Leiden), Contour tones and downstep in Seme
(Kru, Burkina Faso)
10:10-J. Ntihirageza (Chicago), Quantity-sensitivity in Kirundi
10:50-M. Paster (OSU), The TBU in G
Session 3c: Grammaticalizaton
9:30-M. Meeuwis (Antwerp), The Lingala verb *kolinga* 'to want' at an
early stage of grammaticalization
10:10-B.B. Mbom (CUNY), Towards a typological appraisal of Basaa gender
10:50-A. Bell (Cornell), Negatives in Afrikaans: a Khoisan interference
feature?
Session 3d: Language death
9:30-H. Fleming (Boston), Four endangered languages of unusual saliency
10:ra
5:40-A. Lima (Boston Public Schools), Kriolu and language impaired
children
6:20-L. Caswell (Harvard), CCI: an update - foundation, activities and
curriculum
Session 4a: Kwa syntax 1
11:40-M.C. Baker (Rutgers), A. Kawu (Rutgers), O.T. Stewart (UBC), A
comparative analysis of serial verb constructions in Kwa languages
12:20-G. Masagbor (UQAM), Asymmetry in Yekhee double definitness
construction
1 p.m.-U.P. Ihionu (Maryland), Transitivity and multiple predicate
constructions
Session 4b: OT 1
11:40-A. Akinlabi (Rutgers), Asymmetries in reduplicative and
nonreduplicative defaults
12:20-C. Zoll (MIT), Output constraints on tone mapping
1 p.m.-C.R.C. Sheedy (UBC), Grammatical tones in Edo: an
Optimality-Theoretical account
Session 4c: Sociolinguistics 1
11:40-E. Yankey (Indiana), A study of address forms in Nzema: a
sociolinguistic and pragmatic approach
12:20-K.E. Essizewa (NYU), Forms of address in Kabiye: a case study of
borrowing kinship terms of address
1 p.m.-R. Gauton, M.M. Marggraff (Pretoria), The transfer of culture when
translating between Zulu and English, with special reference to two
translated works: H. Rider Haggard's *Nada the Lily* and M.M. Masondo's
*Inkundlanye*
Session 4d: Planning
11:40-N.E. Phaswana (MSU), 11=1+1=2: is it true for South Africa's 11
official-language policy?
12:20-L.L. Muaka (Col. de Mexico), The effects of language attitudes on
the development of the national language in Kenya
1 p.m.-M.L. Sanogo (Ouagadougou), Problematique du choix des langues sur
l'education au Burkina Faso
Session 5a: Kwa syntax 2
2:40-E.O. Aboh (Genve), Focus constructions across Kwa
3:20-O. Oyelaran (WSSU), V. Manfredi (Boston), Weak focus-movement
islands in Yoruba
4 p.m.-R.-M. Dchaine (UBC), Layered Comp in Yoruba
4:40-O. Ajiboye, R.-M. Dchaine, O.T. Stewart (UBC), The syntax of
nominalization: evidence from Edo and Yoruba
Session 5b: OT 2
2:40-L.J. Downing (UBC), Bukusu reduplication
3:20-D. Brassil (UCSD), Kirundi reduplicated adjectives
4 p.m.-M. Cahill (SIL), Tone polarity in Konni: an Optimality-Theoretic
analysis
4:40-B. McCall (Cleveland State), Phonological ordering of elements in
the Luo verb
Session 5c: Sociolinguistics 2
3:20-E. Ochola (South Carolina), Evidence for a composite grammatical
frame from Luo/English codeswitching
4 p.m.-S. Obeng (Indiana), Some pragmatic properties of Ghanaian
political discourse: a pragmalinguistic analysis of intertextuality,
evidentiality and contrast establishment
4:40-F. Ngom (Illinois), Religious and linguistic behaviors as means of
anticolonial resistance in Subsaharan Africa: the case of the Murids in
Senegal
Session 5d: Area studies
2:40-N. Cyffer (Wien), Common linguistic features in languages of the
wider Lake Chad area
3:20-G. Hudson (MSU), Alphabeticness, uniqueness and alleged deficiency
of the Ethiopic writing system
4 p.m.-M. Garba (Temple), The Ancient Egyptian sign for lateral /L/: *L-t
'time, moment'
4:40-D. Duke (UTArlington/SIL), The Bayaka Pygmies and their 'masters':
factors effecting language shift
Plenary session
5:30-Ngugi wa Thiongo (NYU), "After Asmara: the future of African
languages and literatures"
7 p.m.-Public reception
Saturday March 4th George Sherman Union, 775 Commonwealth Ave.
Session 6a: Verb focus
9 a.m.-C. Stanley-Thorne (Moncton), "The coming that they came": verb
topicalization and verb and sentence focus in Tikar
9:40-N. Hall (UMass Amherst), Factive relative clauses in Bafut
Session 6c: Afroasiatic syntax
9 a.m.-G. Halefom, J. Lumsden (UQAM), TBA
9:40-A. Benmamoun (Illinois), TBA
Session 6d: Englishes
9 a.m.-J.V. Singler (NYU), Liberian Settler English: how African is it?
9:40-M. Mutonya (Washington U), African English vowel systems: acoustic
and perceptual analysis
Session 7a: CP structure
10:30-C.N.B. Keach (Temple), On the obligatory presence of object marking
in Swahili relative clauses
11:10-D. Ngonyani (MSU), The relative marker in Bantu: a pronoun or
complementizer?
11:50-B. Oduntan (Iowa), Wh-phrases and complementizers in Yoruba:
evidence for a multi-layered complementizer system
Session 7b: Grammatical tone
10:30-D. Odden (Troms/OSU), Tachoni verbal tonology
11:10-L. Bickmore (Albany), Chilungu verbal tonology
11:50-L.M. Hyman, K.J. Olawsky (Berkeley), Dagbani verb tonology
Session 7c: Afroasiatic phonology
10:30-A. Idrissi (UQAM), Phonological transfer in root-and-pattern
morphology
11:10-S. Rose (UCSD), Roots, radicals and Semitic reduplication
11:50-D. Petros-Banksira (MIT), Interactions of gemination and
reduplication
Session 7d: The (mis)education of the Creole speaker
10:30-M. DeGraff (MIT), Creole morphology and the morphology of an
ideology
11:10-J.H. Barnes (TERC), Style of argumentation in Haitian Creole
11:50-L. Hogu (Hyde Park School), Lodyans: a tool to enable success for
secondary Haitian students with limited formal schooling
Session 8a: Afro-Atlantic 1
1:30-A. Schwegler (Costa Rica/UCI), The Black ritual curse: the art of
'sounding' in the Americas
2:10-K. Bilby (Smithsonian), Reevaluating the African lexical component
of the Surinamese Maroon Creoles: the Aluku case
2:50-K.K.B. Fu-Kiau (Boston, Mass.), African diasporadic languages:
unspoken but alive and powerful
3:30-M. Warner-Lewis (UWI), Challenges in translating Trinidad Yoruba
song texts
Session 8b: Applicatives
1:30-P. Mabugu (Edinburgh), The applicative construction in Chishona
2:10-K. Demuth, J. Bulkowski, Alaka Holla (Brown), Object drop in Bantu
languages: implications for learning the argument structure of verbs
2:50-R. Silvester (U of the North), Bantu complex predicates and
grammatical functions: implications for the thematic hierarchy
3:30-L. Makhubu (M.I Sultan T), The effect of the applicative affix *-el*
in isiZulu intransitive verbs
Session 8c: Laryngeal phonology
1:30-M. Russell (Illinois), Phonetic aspects of tone displacement in Zulu
2:10-M. Bradshaw (Chicago), Voicing phenomena in Suma
2:50-A. Miller-Ockhuizen (OSU), Laryngeal-pharyngeal interactions
3:30-N. Clements, S. Osu (Paris), Sonorant stops: new evidence from Ikwere
Session 8d: Morphology
1:30-I.A. Traore (Bamako), Songhay personal pronouns
2:10-S. Sow (Niamey), Le morpheme *'en* en fulfude: essai d'analyse d'une
modalite nominale
2:50-A. Kimenyi (CSU), The verb perfective marker and consonant mutation
in Kikongo
3:30-M. Gimba (UCLA), Verb reduplication in Bole
Session 9a: Afro-Atlantic 2
4:20-I. Miller (Schomburg Center), From West African Ekpe to Cuban
Abakua: linguistic evidence for the presence of Africa in Cuba
5 p.m.-R. Gonzalez (Boston, Mass.), Cantos de Lucumi: interpretacion
5:40-J. Mason (Yoruba Theological Archministry), Problem areas in
translating Yoruba texts
6:20-D. Dawson (American Museum of Natural History), TBA
Session 9b: Capeverdean language in education
4:20-M. da Luz Goncalves (Boston Public Schools), The new orthographic
system - ALUPEK: its conception, legislation, approach, tryout: the
Boston Experience
5 p.m.-G. Goncalves (Boston Public Schools), Bilingual education and the
Capeverdean Program - the law, experiences, successes and program model
for the Diaspora
5:40-A. Lima (Boston Public Schools), Kriolu and language impaired
children
6:20-L. Caswell (Harvard), CCI: an update - foundation, activities and
curriculum
Session 9c: Phonology
4:20-J. Riggle (UCLA), Relational markedness in Bantu vowel harmony
5 p.m.-E. Koffi (Houghton), Unnasalized vowels in nasalizable
environments in Anyi
5:40-S. Lyon (UCSC), An OT account of consonant gradation in Fula
6:20-K.S. Olson (Chicago/SIL), Languages in which the labial flap is found
Session 9d 4:20-M. Johnson, K. Demuth, S. Canon (Brown), Morphological
tagging and glossing of Bantu language corpora
5 p.m.-A. Kimenyi (CSU), Life as journey metaphor in Kinyarwanda
5:40-Y. Morimoto (Stanford), The role of animacy and associational
harmony in Bantu
6:20-S. Mchombo (Berkeley), Choppin' up Chichewa
Plenary session
8 p.m.-Dinner-dance, catered by Restaurant Sodade Terra, Jorge
Hernandez Cultural Center, Inquilinos Boricuas en Accion, 85 West Newton
Street, Boston.
Sunday March 5th General Classroom Building, 750 Commonwealth Ave.
Session 10a
10:00-S. Makoni (Cape Town/Michigan), The South African constitution and
multilingualism: an argument for the disinvention of African languages
10:40-R. Schaefer (S. Illinois), F. Egbokhare (Ibadan), Emai's
classificatory put verbs
Session 10b: Gikuyu orthography
10 a.m.-Workshop chaired by C. Githiora and open to all ACAL participants
Session 10c: Igbo
10 a.m.-M.A.A.N. Uwalaka (Ibadan), Tense and movement in Igbo
10:40-P.A. Nwachukwu (Nsuka), Case theory, the theta-criterion and Igbo
inherent complement predicates
Session 11b: Gikuyu orthography 2
11:40-[Workshop continues.]
Session 11c: Anaang
11:40-U.I. Idem (Uyo), The pro-drop parameter in Anaang
12:20- I. Icheji (Uyo), Anaang syllable structure
Session 12b: Gikuyu orthography 3 2 p.m.-[Workshop concludes.]
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-michel.
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