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SPCLSaturday, 6 JanuaryMorningSpecial Session: 89Education Issues in Creole ContextsChair: Fred Field (CSU-Northridge)Room: CapistranoCoordinator: Fred Field (CSU-Northridge)8:45 Opening remarks9:00 Sheikh Umarr Kamarah (VA SU, Petersburg): Krio in Sierra Leone education: Ten years after the decree9:20 Thomas Spencer-Walters (CSU-Northridge): Ruminations of ‘creole’ in literary discourse: Possibilities & challenges forSierra Leone Krio & Caribbean Creole9:40 Malcolm A. Finney (CSU-Long Beach): Creoles as mediums of instruction: A realistic or an idealistic notion?10:00 Discussion10:30 BreakMorphosyntax 90Chair: Fernanda Ferreira (Bridgewater SC)Room: Capistrano11:00 Tonjes Veenstra (Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin): Verb allomorphy in French-related creoles11:30 Marlyse Baptista (U GA): Bare nouns in Cape Verdean Creole, European & Brazilian Portuguese: A comparative analysisInterrogatives 91Chair: M. Wade-Lewis (SUNY-New Paltz)Room: San Clemente11:00 Stephen Matthews (U Hong Kong) & Virginia Yip (Chinese U Hong Kong): Wh- interrogatives in Chinese Pidgin English:To move or not to move11:30 Gerard Van Herk (Memorial U-Newfoundland): Questioning question formation research in Early African AmericanEnglishSaturday, 6 JanuaryAfternoonHistory of (Semi)creoles 92Chair: Charles Mann (U Surrey, UK)Room: Capistrano2:00 Margaret Wade-Lewis (SUNY-New Paltz): Lorenzo Dow Turner & the development of creole studies in the U.S.2:30 Don Walicek (U PR-Río Piedras): Does history speak for itself? Creole origins, the Founder Principle, & a marginal colony3:00 Dave Robertson (U Victoria): French of the Mountains: A first report 53