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SPCLFriday AfternoonFriday, 4 JanuaryAfternoonSession 3a Pidgins 82Room:Chair:OrleansSandra Evans (University of the West Indies, Trinidad)2:00 Michelle Li (University of Hong Kong), Stephen Matthews (University of Hong Kong): Complementation in ChinesePidgin English2:30 Micah Corum (Universität Hamburg/LiMA): Meanings and functions of for in West African English lexifierpidgincreoles3:00 Greg Obiamalu (Nnamdi Azikiwe University): Traces of Igbo in Nigerian Pidgin3:30 Charles Mann (Tshwane University of Technology): Attitudes toward Anglo-Nigerian Pidgin in urban Nigeria: Thesocio-occupational variable4:00 Greg Obiamalu (Nnamdi Azikiwe University), Davidson Mbagwu (Nnamdi Azikiwe University): Slangishintroductions in NaijaSession 3b Code-Switching/Discourse 83Room:Chair:HyannisArthur Spears (City University of New York)2:00 Philothe Mwamba Kabasele (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): Testing the Matrix Language FrameModel with evidence from Lingala-French code-switchingModel with evidence from Lingala-French code-switching2:30 Walter F. Edwards (Wayne State University): Codeswitching and the language of the dub poetry ofLintonKewsiJohnson3:00 David Frank (SIL International): Discourse analysis of Guinea-Bissau Portuguese Creole texts3:30 David Robertson (Consultant): Christian Chinook Jargon terms: used and unused4:00 Nicole Scott (University of the West Indies, Mona): Questioning strategies in Trinidadian French-lexicon CreolediscourseSaturday, 5 JanuaryMorningSession 4 Creole Development 84Room:Chair:OrleansRocky Meade (University of the West Indies)8:20 Rocky Meade (University of the West Indies): Conference Announcements8:30 Peter Slomanson (Radboud University Nijmegen): New information structuring processes as morphosyntacticconversion triggers9:00 Carmel O’Shannessy (University of Michigan): The role of multiple sources in the creation of novel formalcategories: Light Warlpiri as a case study9:30 Carol Myers-Scotton (Michigan State University), Janice L. Jake (Midlands Technical College): Explaining thepredominance of aspect in creole development10:00 BreakSession 5 Syntax 85Room:Chair:OrleansPeter Slomanson (Radboud University Nijmegen)10:30 Patrícia Amaral (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): The Present Perfect in a contact variety11:00 Joshua Pongan (Temple University): Linguistic and non-linguistic factors in Chabacano pronominalization11:30 John S. Lumsden (Université du Québec à Montréal), Tonjes Veenstra (Zentrum fur AllgemeineSprachwissenschaft): On the VP-shell parameter of verb insertion69