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45th Annual Conference on African Linguistics Africa’s Endangered Languages: Documentary and Theoretical Approaches University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas April 17-19, 2014 Conference Organizers Jason Kandybowicz Harold Torrence Conference Committee Ibrahima Ba Travis Major Khady Tamba Mfon Udoinyang Graphic Design Carlos M Nash Sponsors National Science Foundation University of Kansas College of Liberal Arts and Sciences University of Kansas Office of the Provost University of Kansas Department of Linguistics Kansas Africa Studies Center ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The 45th Annual Conference on African Linguistics could not have been organized without the talent of numerous individuals and the generosity of many organizations. We wish to thank the following for their sponsorship, time, logistical support, and technical expertise: • The National Science Foundation (NSF-DEL grant 1360823) • University of Kansas College of Liberal Arts and Sciences • University of Kansas Office of the Provost • Kansas African Studies Center • Department of African and African-American Studies • Department of Linguistics • Ibrahima Ba • Corinna Johnson • Allard Jongman • Elizabeth MacGonagle • Travis Major • Carlos Nash • Peter Ojiambo • Khady Tamba • Mfon Udoinyang 17 45th Annual Conference on African Linguistics Thursday Morning April 17, 2014 Registration 8:00 Kansas Union, 4th Floor Lobby Opening Remarks: Sara Thomas Rosen, Senior Vice Provost 8:30 Alderson Room Workshop: Main Session Africa’s Endangered Languages Session 1: Divine Nine Room Session 2: Alderson Room Session 3: English Room Session 4: International Room Session 1: Centennial Room Semantics & Syntax Phonology – ATR Harmony Morphology & Phonology Language Loss, Shift & Maintenance Documentation Chair: Andrew McKenzie Chair: Akinbiyi Akinlabi Chair: Michael Cahill Chair: Jeanine Ntihirageza Chair: Jason Kandybowicz Language Loss and Change: Structural Mundari Mid-Vowel Raising Through The Disjoint/Conjoint Form Distinction in “Swahili”, The Forgotten “Clausal” Exceed Comparatives in Luganda Convergence and Divergence in Moribund 8:45 [ATR] Harmony Sotho and Nguni Languages Endangered Language M. Ryan Bochnak Language Tiefo (Burkina Faso) Timothy M. Stirtz Irina Monich Thomas Hinnebusch & Derek Nurse Abbie Hantgan A Pragmatic Methodology for Empowering Temporal Remoteness and Vagueness in Past Does Maasai Really Have a Lexically-specified Busy Intersections: Aspects of Ninzo Morphology Revisited Endangered African Languages: The Case of 9:15 Time Reference in Luganda ATR Prefix? A Framework for Revitalization Yeseera Omonike Oloso Scientific Lingála M. Ryan Bochnak & Peter Klecha Lindsey Quinn-Wriedt Tucker Childs Bienvenu Sene Mongaba The Influence of Akan on the Linguistic Unmasking the Swahili Orthography: The Combating Negative Attitudes: Isimjeeg: A Distinct and Endangered Language Encoding of Cutting and Breaking Events Challenge for the Documentation of the Imbrication in Lunda Key Step in the Process of Reclaiming African 9:45 Variety of Northern Tanzania in Dwang Minority Languages of Tanzania Boniface Kawasha Indigenous Languages Richard Griscom James Essegbey Joash Gambarage Martha Michieka Preserving an Endangered Language and Verbal Categories in Ut-Ma’in, a Kainji Applicative Theory Applied to Wolof Indigenous Knowledge: the Case for Gugbe 10:15 Language of Nigeria Christen Harris in Badagry, South West, Nigeria Rebecca Paterson Gabriel A. Osoba & Henry J. Hunjo Coffee Break 10:45 Alderson Room Plenary Talk: Malte Zimmermann 11:00 “Universal and Existential Quantifiers in Chadic and Beyond” Alderson Room 12:00 Lunch 45th Annual Conference on African Linguistics Thursday Afternoon April 17, 2014 Workshop: Main Session Africa’s Endangered Languages Session 5: Alderson Room Session 6: English Room Session 7: Divine Nine Room Session 8: International Room Session 2: Blake 207 Syntax Phonetics Corpus Linguistics Language Policy Undergraduate Session on Language Chair: Vicki Carstens Chair: Allard Jongman Chair: Lindley Winchester Chair: Martha Michieka Endangerment in Africa Enhancing the Vitality of Igbo Language Learning in School through Indigenous Development of DOM in Chichewa The Phonetic Status of [ ] in Akan Revisited Swahili Demonstrative Position Language Endangerment in East Africa 1:00 Q Knowledge Systems Laura Downing Mohamed Mwamzandi Carlos M Nash Charlotte Fofo Lomotey Ogbonna Anyanwu, Roseline Ndimele & Ngozi Ugo-Ochulo The Acoustic Vowel Space of Anyi in Light of The Changing Role of English in Africa: Case Object Suffixes as Incorporated Pronouns A Corpus Study on Nominalized Verbs in the Dispersion Theory and the Quantal Theory of Burundi Fast Track Shift from a Foreign Language Endangerment in West Africa 1:30 in Sereer Kiswahili of Speech Language to a Second Language Status Jason Kandybowicz & Harold Torrence Nico Baier Nick Kloehn Ettien Koffi Jeanine Ntihirageza Rethinking Somali Verbs: Utilizing ATR Vowel Harmony and Vowel Quality: How Multilingual Policies Can Fail: Language The Structure of the Gã DP Computational Methods to Decode the Verb 2:00 Are They Related? Politics Among Ethiopian Political Parties Session 3: Centennial Room Mary Amaechi & Cecilia Kotey Class Hypothesis Kofi Adu Manyah Mehari Zemelak Worku Workshop Poster Presentations Erin Smith Crabb & Nikki Adams (See list of posters and authors on final The Prosodic Realization of Focus in Awutu: Pronoun Resolution in Safaliba Narratives: Adjective Sequencing in Ga program page) 2:30 A Preliminary Analysis A Corpus Study Yvonne Akwele Amankwaa Ollennu Charlotte Fofo Lomotey Dorothee Beermann & Kenneth Bodua-Mango Coffee Break 3:00 Alderson Room Plenary Talk: Kofi Agyekum 3:15 “Decolonising Linguistic Imperialism in Africa Through Documentation and Preservation” Alderson Room Session 9: Alderson Room Session 10: English Room Session 11: International Room Session 12: Divine Nine Room Session 4: Centennial Room Syntax – Predicates I Phonology – Syllables Typology Acquisition Phonology – Tone Chair: Ibrahima Ba Chair: Timothy M. Stirtz Chair: Christopher Green Chair: Annie Tremblay Chair: Jie Zhang Structural Transfer in Third Language Defaka and Nkoroo: On the Syntax of Causative Constructions Grammaticalization and Complexity Syllable Weight in Syllable-timed Languages Acquisition: The Case of Lingala-French Moving from Tone to Accentual Systems 4:30 in Chichewa in Eastern Bantu ’Demola Lewis Speakers Acquiring English Akinbiyi Akinlabi, William Bennett, Bruce Nick Kloehn Kyle Jerro Philothe M. Kabasele Connell, Ebitare Obikudo & Inoma Essien A Unified Account of Nominal and Verbal How Case-marking Can be Incorporated into a Verb: Internal Structure of Anaang Typology of Postnasal Alternations in Bantu: The Role of House-helps in the Acquisition of Tone in Nata 5:00 The Historical Development of Middle Voice in Gumuz Proverbial Ideophone Interaction of Manner, Place, and Phonation Language in Kenyan Urban Families Andrei Anghelescu, Joash Gambarage, Colleen Ahland Itoro Michael Jonathan Choti Leonard Muaka Zoe Lam & Douglas Pulleyblank Labial-velars: Consonant Substitution in Child Language Interactions Between Tone and Morphosyntax Eastern Kru Languages as V!T Rather than V2 5:30 Not Quite So Rare After All (Ikwere) in Northern Mao Hannah Sande Michael Cahill Roseline I.C. Alerechi Michael Ahland Welcome Reception 6:30-8:30 The Oread Hotel, Hancock Ballroom 45th Annual Conference on African Linguistics Friday Morning April 18, 2014 Workshop: Main Session Africa’s Endangered Languages Session 1: Alderson Room Session 2: Malott Room Session 3: Pine Room Session 4: International Room Session 1: Kansas Room Syntax – Predicates II Phonology – Tone I Morphology – Nominal Morphology Educational Linguistics Syntax & Morphology Chair: Kasangati Kinyalolo Chair: Elizabeth Zsiga Chair: Rebecca Hale Chair: Peter Ojiambo Chair: Harold Torrence Challenges Facing the Development of Structural Restrictions on H Tone Spread Experiencer Predicate Constructions in Hausa Egyptian Arabic Broken Plurals in DATR Southern Isindebele as Language of Teaching Control and Raising in Moro 9:00 in Xitsonga Lawan Danladi Yalwa Lindley Winchester and Learning in the Democratic South Africa Peter Jenks Seunghun J. Lee & Elisabeth Selkirk Piet Jan Masilela Perceptions and Practices of Mother Tongue High Tone Anticipation in Luganda: The Extended vP Domain in a Songhay Language Gender Instability in Maay Education in Ethiopia Stem Structure in Eegimaa 9:30 Phonology and Phonetics Jason Ostrove Mary Paster Ongaye Oda Orkaydo Mamadou Bassene & Ken Safir Yelena Fainleib & Elisabeth Selkirk & Berhanu Belayneh Beyene Synthesis Before the Proto-Niger-Congo Transnumeral Nouns and Plural Verbs in Maaka: Long Distance Phrasal Spreading Noun Classes and Toponyms in Shüpamem Inflectional Verb: Evidence from the Peripheral What About African Story Grammar? On Number Marking in a Chadic Language 10:00 in Copperbelt Bemba Lydie Christelle Talla Makoudjou South Atlantic Languages Heike Tappe of Nigeria Lee Bickmore & Nancy Kula & Victor Loumngam Kamga Tucker Childs Anne Storch Total Communication as a Means of Saving the Dying ASL and Stopping the Stigmatization of The Interaction of Verb and Direct Object Tone Ndebele Derivational and Inflectional Affixes the Deaf Persons in Nigeria: Wh-movement, Remnant Movement and On the Decomposition of ‘Need’ 10:30 in Bulu in Reduplication A Call to Linguists Clause Typing in Medumba Claire Halpert & Michael Diercks Emily Clem Galen Sibanda Emma Asonye, Ezinne Emma-Asonye, Hermann Keupdjio Attracta
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