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Abstracts Acal46-2015 46TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON AFRICAN LINGUISTICS (ACAL 2015) EUGENE, OREGON Ford Alumni Center CO-SPONSORS Association of Contemporary African Linguistics & Department of Linguistics GLOSS (University of Oregon Graduate Linguistics Students) College of Arts and Sciences Office of International Affairs Global Oregon African Studies Division of Equity and Inclusion American English Institute & Yamada Language Center University of Oregon is an equal-opportunity, affirmative-action institution committed to cultural diversity and compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Accommodations for people with disabilities will be provided, if requested in advance, by calling 541-357-7388. KEY LOCATIONS • All conference sessions are held in the Ford Alumni Center. • The conference banquet is held in the Global Scholars Hall. • The Linguistics Department is located in Straub Hall. LOCAL GROCERY, PHARMACY & RESTAURANTS The closest grocery store, with deli counter, is Market of Choice. Hirons Pharmacy is right beside it. A list of some local restaurants is in the conference packet. Here is a link to an interactive map of some Eugene restaurants: https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=zh9axCWN12ac.kxmeGyRsCI2E WIFI GUEST ACCOUNT LOGIN INSTRUCTIONS WiFi should be available in all UO campus buildings. WiFi login information is given to conference pre-registrants in their registration packet. Those who register onsite will have their guest account activated in the morning of the first day of the conference. Guest Wireless Access is a temporary password only. Change the password on first log-in: 1) Connect to the ‘UO Guest’ wireless network. (Do not connect to the UO wireless network.) 2) Open a web browser window and load any web page. Access “UOnet Guest Authentication” page (https://uoguest.uoregon.edu) 3) Enter your user name and password as provided on your Guest Wireless Access sheet. Change your password when prompted. This new password will be your password for the duration of the conference. 4) If you have issues with your login or password, contact a volunteer. VOLUNTEERS Several conference volunteers are available to assist you in the Ford Alumni Center. Volunteers’ badges have “volunteer” after their name. Volunteers will be available in the lobby and in the rooms of most sessions. 2 Thursday, March 26 Thursday, March 26 8:00-9:15 Registration & Coffee (Ford Alumni Center) 11:00-11:10 Ebarb, Marlo, 9:15-9:30 Opening (Ballroom) Odden, Paster Plenary 1 (Ballroom): Osam 11:10-11:25 Everhart / Holm / 9:30-10:30 Chair: Doris Payne Marlo / Sifuna 11:25-11:40 Lowe / Marlo / Port 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break / Sifuna SYNTAX MORPHOPHONOLOGY INFO STRUC/ DISC PHONETICS LUYIA WORKSHOP: (Ford 201) (Ford 301) (Ford 402) (Ford 403) TONE (Ballroom) 11:40-11:50 Bukusu Q&A Chair: Ken Safir Chair: Boniface Kawasha Chair: Manuel Otero Chair: Jaime Peña Chair: Mary Paster 11:00-11:30 Kandybowicz / Torrance Lotven Grimm, S. Koffi 11:50-12:05 Marlo / Steimel See schedule to 11:30-12:00 Okon Idiatov Teo Faytak 12:05-12:20 Green / Marlo right and below 12:00-12:30 Biloa/Bassong Kawasha Schwarz Branson / Klankey 12:20-12:30 Wanga Q&A 12:30-2:00 Lunch LUYIA WORKSHOP: NOUN CLASSES & NOUNS FOCUS & TOPIC TAM/DIRECTIONALS PHONETICS/ TONE (Ballroom) (Ford 201) (Ford 301) (Ford 402) PHONOL (Ford 403) Chair: Michael Chair: Richard Griscom Chair: Hugh Paterson Chair: Amos Teo Chair: Akin Akinlabi Marlo 2:00-2:30 Van de Velde & Idiatov Namyalo / van der Wal Chang Bassene 2:00-2:20 Ebarb 2:20-2:30 Kabaras 2:30-3:00 Lionnet Nicolle Otero Grimm, N. Q&A 2:30-2:50 Samuels / 3:00-3:30 Ogunkeye Monich Anderson Akanlig-Pare Paster 2:50-3:00 Logoori 3:30-4:00 Coffee Break Q&A PHONOLOGY SYNTAX DISCOURSE/SYNTAX LOGOLI - WORKSHOP (Ford 403) (Ford 201) (Ford 301) (Ford 402) Chair: George Chair: Thiago Castro Chair: Mokaya Bosire Chair: David Odden Akanlig-Pare 4:00-4:30 Schneider-Zioga Muaka / Michieka Angelopoulos Eme / Mbagwu 4:30-5:00 Fominyam Ondiba Diercks / Sikuku Downing / Kadenge 5:00-5:30 Korsah Gluckman / Bowler Akinlabi / Iacoponi POSTER SESSION WITH RECEPTION (Ballroom): Cahill, Freyer/Jones, Griscom, Girard/Keupdijio, 5:30-6:30 Holmgren/Muzaliwa/Thornes, Abugu, Nigusse/Orkaydo, Tibebu, Al Mahmoud, Gaston 3 Friday, March 27 Friday March 27 8:00 Coffee & Picture-Taking To Start ! NEGATION/REFLEXIVES DISCOURSE/PRAGMATICS HISTORICAL PHONOLOGY (Ford 201) (Ford 301) (Ford 402) (Ford 403) Chair: Jaime Pena Chair: Kweku Osam Chair: Richard Griscom Chair: Mike Cahill 8:30-9:00 Carstens Campbell Merrill / Faytak McPherson 9:00-9:30 Burkholder Harter Kabasele Dawson / Marlo / Adejo 9:30-10:00 Safir/Selvanathan Ofori Childs Franich / Djamen / Djobia 10:00-10:30 Coffee Break WH-SYNTAX SEMANTICS/TAM URBAN LG PHONOLOGY (Ford 201) (Ford 301) (Ford 402) (Ford 403) Chair: Sara Pacchiarotti Chair: Hannah Sarvasy Chair: Mokaya Bosire Chair: Akin Akinlabi 10:30-11:00 Zentz Osa-Gómez Rudd Odden 11:00-11:30 Mowarin Landman Namyalo Myers 11:30-12:00 Kotani & Gambarage Seidel Mitsch Hantgan/Sagna 12:00-1:00 Business Meeting (Ford 403) / Lunch Lunch OBJECTS & APPLICATIVES MORPHOLOGY LOGOLI – WORKSHOP PHONOLOGY (Ford 201) (Ford 301) (Ford 402) (Ford 304) Chair: Tom Payne Chair: Doris Payne Chair: Matt Stave Chair: Laura McPherson 1:00-1:30 Jerro Déchaine / Si / Gambarage Ozkan Glewwe / Aly 1:30-2:00 Wasike Moodie Sarvasy Eme / Okoye 2:00-2:30 Nilsson Loccioni Gambarage Plenary 2 (Ballroom): Casali 2:30-3:30 Chair: Manuel Otero 3:30-4:00 Coffee Break SOCIOLX / LG PLANNING ASSOCIATIVE & POSSN GRAMMATICALIZATION PHONOLOGY (Ford 201) (Ford 301) (Ford 202) (Ford 403) Chair: Tom Payne Chair: Hugh Paterson Chair: Sharon Rose Chair: Vsevolod Kapatsinski 4:00-4:30 Njwe Keupdjio Bernander Coto-Solano/Wray 4:30-5:00 Soulaimani Paterson, R. Mukuna /Nuttall /Todd Isaiah 5:00-5:30 Worku Gebregziabher Ahland, M. Danis Plenary 3 (Ballroom): Bickmore 5:30-6:30 Chair: Mokaya Bosire 7:00ff Banquet (Global Scholars Hall Great Room) 4 Saturday, March 28 Saturday March 28 8:30-9:00 Coffee To Start !! SYNTAX SOCIOLING / SYNTAX LEXICAL SEMANTICS PHONOLOGY (Ford 201) (Ford 301) (Ford 402) (Ford 403) Chair: Rebecca Paterson Chair: Thiago Castro Chair: Michael Ahland Chairː Scott Myers Mudzingwa / Déchaine / 9:00-9:30 Pacchiarotti Brobbey Rasmussen Fulconis 9:30-10:00 Duarte/Ngunga/Camargos Ihemere Rose Choti 10:00-10:30 Sibanda Oloso Urua / Udoh Cohen 10:30-11:00 Essegbey Rolle / Kari Oweleke Jones 11:00-11:30 Coffee Break Plenary 4 (Ballroom): Legere 11:30-12:30 Chair: Richard Griscom 12:30-1:30 Lunch LEXICON / SYNTAX MORPHOPHON/ MRPHL ENDANGERED LGS (Ford 301) (Ford 202) (Ford 403) Chair: Saudah Namyalo Chair: Vsevolod Kapatsinski Chair: Doris Payne 1:30-2:00 Allison Hyman Belew 2:00-2:30 Anyanwu Obiamalu / Eme Paterson, H. 2:30-3:00 Guntly / Gambarage Ngonyani / Ngowa Ahland, C. 5 PLENARY PAPER ABSTRACTS Lee BICKMORE. University of New York Albany Tones Gone Crazy: Adventures of the Melodic Tone in Bantu It has long been noted that while tone is similar to other phonological features in some respects, it is quite different in others. One phenomenon which clearly and richly highlights some unusual properties of tone is that associated with “melodic” tones in Bantu. These grammatical/inflectional tones, found throughout Bantu, often form an integral part of the verbal morphology. What makes them so interesting, however, is the complex array of factors which condition their presence and phonological realization. Factors governing that realization can be phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic and interesting combinations of several of these. In this talk I will present some of the most interesting, and in some cases theoretically intractable, examples of the behavior of melodic tones across a range of Bantu languages. One fairly well-known example is the case of Kuria, where certain tense/aspect/moods are marked by the presence of a melodic H tone linking to the fourth mora of the stem. This demands a fresh look at the age-old question “Can phonology count? And if so, how high?” Melodic H patterns in Cilungu raise questions about phonological adjacency. In TAMs where the Melodic H normally docks onto the Final Vowel, docking fails to take place when the subject marker is toneless. This is true even when other, lexical, H tones intervene between the subject and the Final Vowel. These as well as other descriptively and theoretically interesting cases will be presented. Roderic F. CASALI. Trinity Western University Revisiting Markedness and Dominance Relations in Tongue Root Harmony Systems Two common characteristics of ATR harmony systems are 1) asymmetric spreading of a particular [ATR] value, often referred to as dominance (Casali 2003), and 2) systematic restrictions on the distribution of particular vowels or [ATR] values, a topic often discussed in connection with markedness. Natural research questions that arise in connection with dominance and markedness include the following: 1. Which [ATR] value(s) give rise to assimilatory spreading in a language? 2. Which [ATR] vowel classes are marked? [+ATR] vowels (Stewart 1967)? [-ATR] vowels (Zsiga 1997)? Or is [-ATR] marked in high vowels and [+ATR] in non-high vowels (Archangeli & Pulleyblank 1994, Calabrese 1995)? 3. What, if any, relationship exists between marked and dominant vowels in a language? Do unmarked vowels assimilate to marked ones (e.g., Stewart 1967), or is assimilation from marked to unmarked (Bakovic 2000)? Or are the marked and dominant classes in a language simply independent (being determined by independent constraints), as implicit in much work in optimality theory? Despite the considerable volume of descriptive, typological and theoretical work done on ATR harmony languages, no clear and reliable set of consensus answers to these questions exists at present. An important key to arriving at a reliable understanding of dominance and markedness relations lies in recognizing that languages with an [ATR] contrast in high vowels (“/2IU/” languages) behave very differently from languages with an [ATR] contrast only in non-high vowels (“/1IU/” languages).
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