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Programme WOCAL10 (All Times in CEST) Monday 7 June 2021 Programme WOCAL10 (all times in CEST) Monday 7 June 2021 Welcome (14:45-15:00) Keynote address Dorothy Gordon “Reverse Babel Technology: New roles for linguists” (15:00-15:45) author ID title A ASMO introduction workshop) Roland Kießling 206 Straightening homewards hither, grating on one’s way thither – tracking down the associated locomotion component in the Datooga lexicon Stefan Bruckhaus 217 Associated motion derivations in Barbayiiga Datooga Joseph Lovestrand 297 Associated motion and directionals in Chadic languages B Policy 1 Christiane Alexandra Nsom 273 Linguistic landscapes and entities: The case of the University of Yaounde I and the University of Douala Souhaila Khamlichi 50 Redefining the Status of African Mother Tongues at the Age of Globalization: The Case of Darija in Modern Morocco Abdellah Idhssaine 177 Family Language Policy in Morocco: The Case of the Amazigh Language Jesse Ndabakurane 256 Language Supportive Pedagogy for Teaching and Learning Science Content in Secondary Schools in Tanzania 16:00- C PRAG Mark Dingemanse 281 From liminal signs to phatic interjections 18:00 workshop) Chrispina Alphonce 62 Human-animal communication in the Iraqw Language Azeb Amha 293 Human-domesticated animal communication in Zargulla Aisha Umar Adamu 180 Masking emotions: a study of Hausa women’s expression of kunya D Copula 1 Heidrun Kröger 14 Copulas in Xingoni Isabelle Roy and Siaka Sangare 41 Inverse copular sentences in Bambara E Morphology Guillaume Guitang 29 Frozen reduplication and repetition in Gizey 1 Matthew Ajibade 78 Deverbal Noun Constructions in Yoruba Ayoub Noamane 120 On the Templatic Morphology of Moroccan Arabic Jeffrey Heath 172 Verb-stem alternations in Tiefo languages of Burkina Faso F Tone 1 Jim Roberts 91 The suprasegmental system of Mukulu verbs Nicholas Rolle and Otelemate 105 The target and domain of clitic-triggered low tone Harry spread in Kalabari Andreas Joswig 98 Different OCP-Avoidance Strategies in Majang – Insights from Good Old Lexical Phonology Paul Murrell and Kenneth Olson 7 Lexical Tone on Yakpa Verbs G SIGN Amandine le Maire 52 Mobilities/Immobilities of deaf people in Kakuma workshop Refugee Camp Kidane Admasu 203 Language Attitude and Language Shift among Youngsters Deaf Ethiopian immigrant in United States Raika Wolff 85 ME FINISH BADO – Language Usage and Communication Experiences of Deaf Students of Fr. Ouderaa School in Nyang’oma, Kenya Marco Stanley Nyarko 83 Deaf parenting in rural and urban communities in Ghana: a case study of Adamorobe community and Koforidua Bruno Dibi 289 De la langue des signes d’Amérique à la langue des signes d’Amérique utilisée en Côte d’Ivoire: une étude comparative du lexique Yves Beosso 20 Socio-linguistic variations is Chadian sign language Performance Bright Richards (18:00-19:00) A ASMO Jonathan Moodie 93 Associated Motion in Lopit workshop Adriel Josias Bébiné 23 Les paramètres spatiaux associés au verbe en Yangben (A60A) Ron Schaefer and Francis 92 Associated Motion in Africa: Toward a Typology for Egbokhare Deictic Directionality Discussion B Policy 2 Youssef Laaraj 251 Moroccan University Students’ Views and Attitudes towards the Place and Status of Foreign and National Official Languages in the Moroccan Education System Oumaima Elghazali 179 Language and Power in Morocco: Elitism through Language Proficiency Manifi Abouh Maxime Yves Julien 195 Les langues nationales dans la formation des traducteurs au Cameroun: enjeux et propositions didactiques 19:00- 21:00 Yamina El Kirat El Allame and 181 Optimal Measures for the Maintenance and/or Revival Oussama El Addouli of Amazigh Language: The Case of Morocco C PRAG Michael Karani and Alexander 194 Emotive interjections in Maasai (Arusa) workshop Andrason Esther Desiadenyo Manu-Barfo 282 Ideophones, Interjections and Particles: Their forms and uses in Dompo Mulugeta Seyoum 139 Some utterance particles in Amharic Conversations Mercy Bobuafor 178 Pragmatic borrowing: the case of Tafi, a Ghana-Togo Mountain language. D Copula 2 Mary Amaechi 283 The syntax of Igbo existential sentences Rita Gonçalves, Feliciano 59 Copula constructions in Changana Chimbutane, Inês Duarte and Tjerk Hagemeijer Gebre Fleck 119 A Possessor Raising Light Verb E Morphology Nisrine Kandil 198 The Stem in Moroccan Arabic 2 Diandra Sleene Mendouga Owona 168 La réduplication en Ewondo. Michael Bulkaam 104 A morphological analysis of verb pluralization in Tal Nadine Grimm and Scott Grimm 260 Form and meaning in Havu deverbal nominalizations F Tone & Jeremy Coburn, Richard Griscom, 185 Tonal patterns of Hadza nouns Prosody Andrew Harvey and Bonny Sands Tatiana Reid 158 On the nature of floating suprasegmental component in Lou Nuer. Ayu'Nwi Neba 24 Arguing for a toneless nominal prefix for Grassfields Bantu languages: A comparative study Tuesday 8 June 2021 Keynote address Anna Marie Diagne “Systèmes d’écriture pour langues des signes et langues vocales africaines” (15:00-15:45) author ID title A BANT Daisuke Shinagawa and Lutz Marten 188 A micro-parametric survey on typological covariation workshop related to focus marking strategies: based on the Bantu Morphosyntactic Variation database Jenneke van der Wal, Elisabeth Kerr 197 Bantu word order between discourse and syntactic and Zhen Li relations Maud Devos and Rasmus Bernander 271 A typology of Bantu existential locationals B POLI Emmanuel Alfredo 64 Les politiques linguistiques et le rôle des langues workshop nationales pour le développement durable en Angola Colin Reilly, Tracey Costley, Hannah 253 Evaluating evidence and strategies for developing Gibson, Nancy Kula, Joseph Mwansa, multilingual language-in-education policies in Botswana, Gastor Mapunda and Mompoloki Tanzania and Zambia Bagwasi Dr. Michael M. Kretzer, Dr. Michael M. 38 (Hidden) potentials for African Languages through a Kretzer and Everlyn Oluoch-Suleh competency based curriculum (CBC): A comparative study of Kenya and South Africa discussion C PRAG Margaret Zellers, Mandy Lorenzen, 113 Forms and functions of backchanneling in Ruruuli and workshop Saudah Namyalo and Alena Witzlack- Luganda Makarevich Florian Lionnet 60 Clicks as areal verbal gestures in the Lake Chad Basin and beyond 16:00 - Felix Ameka 243 Moving clicks and other non-word vocalisations to the 18:00 centre: Explorations in their communicative significance discussion D Tense- Katherine Russell and Hannah Sande 49 Interaction of tone, segmental auxiliaries, and word Aspect order in Guébie TAMP morphology Stefan Savić and Don Killian 259 Aspect in Uduk, a Koman Language Karee Garvin, Katherine Russell and 48 A typological survey of STAMP morphology and Hannah Sande phonology in the Macro-Sudan Belt E Loans & Sawsan Nashid 129 Arabic loan words in the Dinka language Contact 1 Rafiki Sebonde 97 Lecixal borrowing and Semantic Change in Chasu Speech Community of Tanzania Margarida Petter, Paulo Jeferson Pila 207 The influence of Portuguese on Kimbundu and their Araújo and Francisco da Silva Xavier status of languages in contact: the case of prepositions and conjunctions Paul Fonkoua and Cyrille Auguste 252 Lexical and Grammatical Interferences from French into Bayiha Billong Basaá F Aghaegbuna Haroldson Uwaezuoke 3 Palatalization and Labialisation in Omambala Igbo: An Phonology Evidence of Tone-Induced Assimilation in Language 1 Régina Ikemou 6 La nasalisation des voyelles en empú-mpuun Ivo Forghema Njuasi 65 The Monophthongization of /ai/ and /oi/ in Kom: An Autosegmental Perspective Ahmed Sosal 118 A phonological study of the Tegem language G SIGN Anne Baker, Andries van Niekerk, Kate 142 Studying Lexical Variation In Sign Languages: the Case of workshop Huddlestone South African Sign Language Susan Njeyiyana and Kate 126 Lexical variation and change in a South African Sign Huddlestone Language school-lect Tanja Diederich 210 Variation of lexical signs in sign languages of the Dogon area (Mali): a corpus analysis Manolis Fragkiadakis 167 Quantifying variation in movement and location: comparing the lexicons of American and Ghanaian Sign Language Abdelhadi Soudi, Kristof Van 286 Sign Language Documentation in Emergency Situations Laerhoven and Elmostafa Bou-Souf and Crisis Zones: a Crowdsourcing Solution Break & Meeting Steering Committee (18:00-19:00) A BANT Justine Mukhwana Sikuku 223 Bantu reflexive and reciprocal variation workshop Rodrigo Lazaresko Madrid 254 Transitivity in Bantu: active structure in accusative alignment Mark Van de Velde 265 Approaches to Bantu morphosyntactic typology Lee J. Pratchett 174 Respect*in*g African languages: towards a typology of pronominal honorification in African languages B POLI Koumassol Midinette Endurence 161 Languages, inequality and marginalization: The case of workshop Dissake and Gratien G. Atindogbe Cameroon courtrooms Gabriel Delmon Djomeni 166 Local language teaching practices in Cameroon and the challenges of building a collaborative network between government and language committees: An observation from within Diosdado Nguere Manga 90 Equatorial Guinea seeks sustainable language use Edeguedegue and Scott Smith through community-based language development discussion 19:00 - C Semantics Michael Yamungeu Ntonyuh 154 The semantics of Bamunka pronominal system 21:00 Tabe Florence Ako Enoh 89 Quantificational expressions in Kenyang Christiana Ikegwuonu 218 Spatial Deixis in Igbo: A Grammatical and Semantic Analysis Wakweya Gobena 12 The verb k'ab- in Oromo D Afro- Karim Bensoukas 261 What Vowel Subtraction can Explain in Amazigh (Berber) Asiatic Morphology and Morpho-phonology Houmman Hachoumi
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