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NILO-SAHARAN LINGUISTICS COLLOQUIUM, COLOGNE 2013 Funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft NILO-SAHARAN LINGUISTICS COLLOQUIUM, COLOGNE 2013 funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft NUBIAN PANEL ‘FOCUS ON THE NUBIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES’ funded by Fritz Thyssen Stiftung Programme as of May 17, 2013 The abstracts are sorted by the bold names Orientation map below Wednesday, 22.05.2013 9:00 – 10:00 REGISTRATION in front of room D (Hörsaalgebäude) 10:00-10:05 WELCOME (room D) 10:05 – 10:50 PLENARY TALK (room D) Norbert Cyffer: Genealogy and areality. Their impact on the evolution of languages and linguistic groups OLD NUBIAN NILOTIC SAHARAN room D room F room G 11:00-11:30 Vincent van Gerven Osamu Hieda: Sergio Baldi & Alessandro Oei: Notes toward a Complementation and Suzzi-Valli: Kanuri loans in revised grammar of Old evidentiality in Kumam some Bole-Tangale Nubian languages 11:30-12:00 Petra Weschenfelder & Torben Andersen: An Georg Ziegelmeyer: Kanuri Kerstin Weber: applicative voice in and its neighbours – Reflections on Old Kurmuk typological convergence in Nubian grammar the Lake Chad region 12:00-13:30 LUNCH BREAK 13:30-14:00 Grzegorz Ochała: Matthew Baermann: The Dmitry Bondarev & Doris Languages of Christian diachronic puzzle of Nuer Löhr: Morphosyntactic Nubia case inflection variation in Old Kanembu and modern Kanuri and Kanembu dialects 14:00-14:30 Joost Hagen: Church Prisca Jerono: Case Eva Rothmaler: ‘Future’ in names in the Old marking in Tugen Kanuri Nubian documents 14:30-15:00 Giovanni Ruffini: Helga Schröder: S/A pivot Baba Kura Alkali Gazali: Idiomatic language in in Toposa clause-chaining Functions of the Old Nubian postpositions –ro and –lan correspondance in Kanuri 15:00-15:30 COFFEE BREAK 15:30 – 16:15 PLENARY TALK (room D) Shettima Umaru Bulakarima & Abba Kura Shettima: Dynamics of Language Contact in the Lake Chad Basin: Continuity and Change in Kanembu and Kanuri 16:30 – 17:00 Adam Łaytar: Survey of Angelika Mietzner: The Suleiman Norein: Old Nubian texts from philosphy of walking: Sociolinguistic dislocation in Jebel Adda "verbs of walking" in Darfur since 2003 Cherang'any (Kalenjin) 17:00-17:30 Alexandros Tsakos: The Kazuhiro Kawachi: The Maha Abdul Aldawi: A Liber Institutionis Kupsapiny distinction morpho-syntactic Michaelis between exclusive and contrastive analysis of the shared possession and two dialects of Zaghawa in the inalienability Sudan: Kube and Wegi distinction from 19:00 DINNER PARTY Hellers Brauhaus, Roonstraße 33 Thursday, 23.05.2013 9:00-9:45 PLENARY TALK (room 01, Seminargebäude) Leoma Gilley: Expectations: Realization and disillusionment NUBIAN NILOTIC CENTRAL SUDANIC room 01 room 21 room 22 10:00-10:30 Birgit Hellwig & Gertrud Diane Lesley-Neuman: Connie Kutsch-Lojenga: Schneider-Blum: In a Eastern Nilotic Phonology Mvuba - An endangered state of flux: Tabaq and Optimality Theory: language worth exploring What Can the Optimal System Look Like? 10:30-11:00 COFFEE BREAK 11:00-11:30 M. Jalal Hashim: The Stefan Bruckhaus: Christine Waag & Martin problem of connective Locational nouns in Phodunze: The pronominal consonant in Nobíin Datooga elements of Baka, a Central Sudanic language of South Sudan 11:30-12:00 Marcus Jaeger: Anne Storch: Linguistic Pascal Boyeldieu: Case Adversative Etiquette in a Frontier alignment(s) in Sinyar grammatical elements Situation: a Case Study in Dongolawi and Kenzi from Chopi proverbs 12:00-13:30 LUNCH BREAK 13:30-14:15 PLENARY TALK (room 01) Doris Payne: Why can’t we agree on “The Maa verb”? Perspectives on the Nilotic verb composition 14:30-15:00 Jade Comfort: Verbal Dan Finer: Low Topic and Peggy Jacob: Doubled verbs. plurality in Uncunwee Prominence Relations in Focus marking in Sara- Turkana Bagirmi 15:00-15:30 Angelika Jakobi & El- Andrew Kiprop Chelimo: Gregory Anderson: Shafie El-Guzuuli: Tone and tongue root as S/TAM/Pmorphs Semantic change and mobilitive morphemes in (portmanteau heterosemy of Endo-Marakwet subject/TAM/polarity Dongolawi ed morphs) in Central Sudanic languages 15:30-16:00 COFFEE BREAK 16:00-16:30 Suzan Alamin: Noun Fernando O. de Carvalho: KULIAK phrase constructions in Problems in Shilluk room 22 Nubian languages: A morphophonology: Sam Beer: New research in comparative study prospects of a word- Nyang’i based solution 16:30-17:00 Abdelrahim Bert Remijsen: Three Terril Schrock: Case as a Mughaddam: levels of vowel length in meta-categorial heuristic in Loanwords in Nubia: A Shilluk Ik grammaticography sociolinguistic perspective from 18:00 KÖLN/NIL – DIE ABENTEUERLICHE ORIENT-EXPEDITION DES KÖLNERS FRANZ CHRISTIAN GAU 1818-1820 The egyptologist Heinz Felber offers a guided tour through the exhibition in the Municipal Museum (Kölnisches Stadtmuseum, Zeughausstraße 1) Friday, 24.05.2013 9:00 – 9:45 PLENARY TALK (room 01) Moges Yigezu: Is Aroid Nilo-Saharan or Afro-Asiatic (Omotic)? Evidences from phonological and morphological reconstructions NUBIAN NILOTIC KOMAN & GUMUZ room 01 room 21 room 22 10:00-10:30 Elshafie Elgazooli Jane Oduor: A study of Richard Griscom: The Saeed: the verb ‘e’ [ɛ] in the relationship between multifunctional KI Andaandi syllable weight and stress preposition in Koman and in Dholuo Western Nilotic 10:30-11:00 Thomas Kuku Alaki & Peter Avery & Abel Manuel A. Otero: Dual Russell Norton: Kadaru Ogola: Variability and number in Komo verbs phonology regularization in the acquisition of the Dholuo plural 11:00-11:30 COFFEE BREAK 11:30-12:00 NYIMANG SURMIC Colleen Ahland: Verbal room 01 room 21 Classifier, Reflexive, and Beyond: A Synchronic and Russell Norton: The Andreas Joswig: Syntactic Diachronic Exploration of Ama dual suffix: An sensitivity and preferred the Morpheme /tsa/ ‘body’ internal reconstruction clause structure in Majang in Gumuz 12:00-12:30 Ines Fiedler: The Adelino Amargira: Don Killian: Body part structure of yes/no Number and case verbal compounding in questions in Ama inflection in Tennet Uduk 12:30-13:30 LUNCH BREAK 13:30-14:00 SONGHAY Václav Blažek: Surmic Tesfaye Negash: The Komo room 01 numerals people and their language: An introduction and a study Petr Zima: Dendi and its of tone position within synchronic and diachronic studies of Songhay 14:00-14:30 Lameen Souag: Songhay LANGUAGE POLICY Tesfaye Negash: Komo/film lexica and the trans- room 21 screening Saharan trade Alemayehu Getachew: Language planning and development of the Ethiopian Nilo-Saharan languages during the past 20 years 14:30-15:00 KUNAMA BERTA room 21 room 22 John Ashkaba: Kunama Susanne Neudorf: The use tones as object markers of body part lexemes in Berta 15:00-15:30 COFFEE Nate Bremer: Lexical and grammatical shift in Berta: A comparative analysis of several speech varieties 15:45 CONCLUSION CEREMONY room 01 Hohen- staufenring e ß Brauhaus Hotel tra er S Heller Weber em Rathenauplatz Mauritiuswall Bach Zülpicher W Dasselstraße H Zülpicher Roonstraße Platz Hotel Elite all Restaurant Meister-Gerhard- Zarathustra Straße H Barba- UniversitätUniversität rossaplatz Gyrhofstraße Mensa Kyffhäuserstraße Albertus- Magnus- Moselstraße Salierring Seminar- Platz H Dasselstr./ Hochstadenstraße gebäude Institut für Bahnhof Süd Hochstadenstraße Universitätsstraße Afrikanistik Pfälzer Straße Meister-Ekkehart-Straße H Bahnhof Zülpicher Straße Köln Süd Straße Hotel Mado W Hörsaal- Otto-Fischer- Moselstraße G eyertal gebäude a Luxemburger b W e ls b all e r H Universität g e r s t r Stolzestraße a Kerpener Straße ß Luxemburger Straße e 13 Map data: © OpenStreetMap.
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