8:00-9:00 Registration and coffee
9:00-9:30 Welcome and Workshop opening. David Wills, Chair of LLC
9:30-10:30 Keynote Address
Code switching or borrowing?: No sé so no puedo decir, you know
John Lipski, Pennsylvania State University
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
Special Session
Chair: Lotfi Sayahi, The University at Albany
10:45-11:30 Official Bilingualism in Paraguay, 1995-2001: An Analysis of the Impact of Language Policy on Attitudinal Change
Shaw N. Gynan, Western Washington University
11:30 –12:00 Creolization and the External Ecology of Venezuela
Clancy Clements and Manuel Diaz-Campos, Indiana University
12:00-2:00 Lunch Break
Spanish in Contact
Chair: Clancy Clements, Indiana University
2:00:2:30 Spanish in Contact With German in Some Communities of “Volga Germans” in Argentina
Alicia Cipria, University of Alabama
2:30-3:00 Examining the societal milieu to predict the ethnolinguistic vitality of the Quichua language
Sonia Lenk, Western Kentucky University.
3:00-3:30 La divergencia entre actitudes y conducta lingüísticas: la gheada gallega y la formación de un registro culto oral
Juan Antonio Thomas, The University at Albany
3:30-3:45 Coffee break
Lexical and morphosyntactic variation
Chair: Maurice Westmoreland, The University at Albany
3:45-4:15 Regional Variation in the Lexicon in Puerto Rican Spanish
Elizabeth Dayton, Universidad de Puerto Rico - Mayaguez
4:15-4:45 Variación sociolingüística del subjuntivo en Argentina
Amalia Schweizer, Temple University
4:45-5:15 Contact Induced Change? The Case of Non-Specific Ellos
Naomi Lapidus and Ricardo Otheguy The Graduate Center, CUNY
6:00-8:00 Conference party. (Room: Humanities 354)
Friday March 26, 2004, Standish Room (New Science Library)
9:00-9:15 Registration and Coffee
Discourse analysis
Chair: Jonathan Holmquist, Temple University
9:15-9:45 Análisis lingüístico-discursivo del discurso pronunciado por el Presidente del Colegio de Profesores de Chile, en la Marcha Nacional por la Dignidad del Magisterio (16 de octubre de 1998)
Viviana Unda, University of California, Los Angeles
9:45-10:15 Occupational Jargon between monolingual Spanish-speaking workers and their ‘Hispanic’ co-workers in the United States
Antonio Valle de Antón, The University of Texas at Austin
10:15-10:45 El uso de los Apéndices Modalizadores ¿no? ¿eh? En el español peninsular
María José García Vizcaíno, Montclair State University
10:45-11:00 Coffee break
Code-switching
Chair: Cynthia Fox, The University at Albany
11:00-11:30 Code switching in a science classroom: Constructing of school science and participant roles
Jinsook Choi, George Washington University.
11:30-12:00 “Dear amigo”: Exploring Code-switching in Personal Letters
Cecilia Montes-Alcalá, Emory University
12:15-2:00 Lunch break
2:00-3:00 Plenary speaker
Sociophonetic knowledge and the control of style
Jorge Guitart, University at Buffalo, SUNY
3:00-3:15 Coffee Break
Phonological variation
Chair: Luis Paris, The University at Albany
3:15-3:45 Sociolinguistic variation in women’s speech in rural Puerto Rico: A study of five phonological features
Jonathan C. Holmquist, Temple University
3:45-4:15 Gender Roles and the Variants of /r/
Maria de la Luz Matus-Mendoza, Drexel University
4:15-4:45 Phonological variation of Spanish in contact with Arabic
Ruth Scipione and Lotfi Sayahi, The University at Albany
5:00 End of Workshop