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)
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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)
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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 280 Paradigm Structure in Moroccan Arabic Personal Pronoun Affixes A Realization Optimality Theory Account Ayoub Loutfi 136 On Negation in Moroccan Arabic
Othmane Zakaria 183 Study abroad students between modern standard Arabic and local Moroccan dialect
E Loans & Zoubida Ziani 257 Backformation as root extraction in Moroccan Arabic Contact 2 Loanwords
Maarten Mous and Christian Rapold 171 A critical re-assessment of suggested Cushitic loans and their history in East African Bantu Sarah Nakijoba 300 Accidental pragmatic marker cognates"The case of the Luganda so and the English so
Evelyn Fogwe Chibaka 82 Sustainability of Indigenous Knowledge in ethno-medical resources and the challenge of revitalization and maintenance of the Bezen language
F Phonetics Didier Demolin, Alain Ghio and 216 A phonetic study of Iraqw ejectives consonants Maarten Mous
Sirih-Nagang Nancy Nyindem and 88 Voicing in Ngamambo: A Descriptive perspective Asongwed Tah
Alain Ghio, Maarten Mous and Didier 219 Labialized consonants in Iraqw Demolin
G Herbert Rostand Ngouo Tchio 134 Evaluating the efficacy of technology in language Technology development: the case of Adapt-it for Bible translation from Ngiemboon to Ngomba
Abdullahi Aliyu 239 Linguo-cultural Analysis of Hausa Fake News Filters
Emmanuel Ngue Um, Eliette Ngo 263 A Rule-Based Machine Translation System, Ewondo Tjomb and Francis Tyers Morton (ewo)-French(fra)-Ewondo
Wednesday 9 June 2021
Keynote address Ongaye Oda Orkaydo “Cultural Practices and the dynamics of language: the linguistic reflexes of house construction in Konso (15:00-15:45)
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A Bantu Patrick Njue Kanampiu 190 Which factors determine object expression in Kîîtharaka? information structure 1 Ernest Nshemezimana, Mena B. 87 Formes et fonctions des constructions à sujet inversé en Lafkioui and Koen Bostoen kirundi (bantou, JD62)
Elisabeth Kerr 213 Discontinuous DPs in Tunen
Zhen Li 237 The Information Structure of Preverbal Domain in Teke- Kukuya (Bantu B77)
B POLI Yassine Boussagui and Yamina El 173 Amazigh Language Revitalization or Devitalisation: How workshop Kirat El Allame Language Policy Fails an Indigenous Language
Matthew Harley 150 Language Policy in Nigeria: Problems, Possibilities and Proposals
Bert van Pinxteren 153 Let's turn to policy: a challenge to linguists
discussion
C CAUS introduction workshop Yvonne Treis 182 The causal-noncausal alternation in Kambaata (Cushitic)
Ronny Meyer 137 The causal-noncausal alternation in Muher (Ethiosemitic)
Tim Gaved 108 The causal/non-causal alternation in Mankanya and Neyo
D Noun Samuel Alhassan Issah and Hasiyatu 56 Semantics of Nominal Classification in Mabia Languages 16:00 Class Abubakari - 18:00 Neige Rochant 236 How to become rich after the loss of a noun class system: The case of Baga Pukur (Atlantic)
Michael Terhemen Angitso 157 Reflections on the NCV class and concordial markers in Tiv
E Historical Ines Fiedler 230 How reliable are reconstructions of noun class markers in Linguistics Niger-Congo? 1 Kithaka Wa Mberia 258 On the Ozi Origin of Kiswahili
Birgit Ricquier, Rebecca Grollemund, 245 A New Phylogenetic Classification for the Upper Congo David Kopa Wa Kopa, Nicolas Languages (C50, D11, D12) Mombaya Liwila and Emmanuel Ngbanga Bandombele
Koen Bostoen and Sara Pacchiarotti 13 On the origin of verb-final subject indexes in Ngwi (Bantu, B861)
F Tone 2 Shuichiro Nakao 224 Tone in Nubi
Kent Rasmussen 72 Collecting Tone Data in Community with A→Z+T: A case study in Zulgo [gnd] (Cameroon)
Sofiya Ros 21 When language has a beat: Senegalese drum language and linguistic theory
Bruce Wiebe 288 On developing a phonological database for tone analysis amidst travel and contact restrictions
G SIGN Annie Risler and Alain Gebert 229 The Dictionary for Seychellois Sign Language : a tool for workshop the preservation, transmission and development of Seychelles' heritage
Koumba Richie Tatiana 248 L’écologie des langues des signes à Libreville
Timothy Hadjah 128 The history of Ghanaian Sign Language: A linguistic perspective
Andre Karl Joress Ebouaney 170 Contrastive analysis between the French Sign Language Mbime, Enrico Dolza and Majeu Defo and the Sign Language used in two Francophone deaf Felicité school in Cameroon
N'Jok Aloysius and Atangana Tsala 33 Working Towards Developing and Promoting a National Marcellin Sign Language in a Challenging Environment.
Fabian Bross 53 A brief sketch of the sentence structure of Burkina Faso Sign Language (BFSL)
H Sadilar Rooweither Mabuya (South African 302 Introducing the South African Centre for Digital Language booth Centre for Digital Language Resources 18:00- Resources) 19:30 Andiswa Bukula (South African Center for Digital Language Resources)
Felix Ameka (Leiden University Panel discussion: Why set up a Research Infrastructure Centre for Linguistics) for African Languages? - with Q&A Mmasibidi Setaka (SADiLaR) Sara Petrollino (Leiden University Centre for Linguistics) Emmanuel Ngue Um (University of Yaoundé 1)
Mmasibidi Setaka (SADiLaR) Technologies for Enhanced Documentation of African Juan Steyn (South African Centre for Languages: new opportunities Digital Language Resources) Rooweither Mabuya (South African Centre for Digital Language Resources)
Break (18:00-19:00)
A Bantu Amani Lusekelo and Jenneke van der 201 The augment and exhaustivity in Nyakyusa information Wal structure 2 Allen Asiimwe, Melle Groen, Patrick 192 A new focus construction in three Bantu languages Kanampiu, Amani Lusekelo, Nina van der Vlugt, and Jenneke van der Wal
Katharina Hartmann and Johannes 255 Selecting Alternatives in Eton Mursell
Colin Brown and Harold Torrence 268 Analyzing predicate focus doubling in Dschang 19:00 - B L2 Zakariae Azennoud and Wafaa 109 Patterns of Communication between Immigrant African 21:00 migrants Nachre Workers and Moroccan Natives in Rabat, Morocco: A Mixed Qualitative Study
Beauty Umana 67 Nigerian Pidgin vitality in Cape Town: exploring speakers’ attitudes and use in diaspora
Charifa Eddahani 81 First and official language transfer in foreign language writing: the case of Moroccans learning Italian as a foreign language
Chimaobi Onwukwe 28 Encounters with xenophobia: Language use by Nigerian immigrants in Cape Town C CAUS Nobuko Yoneda 162 Inchoative-Causative verb alternations in Swahili workshop Sebastian Dom, Leora Bar-El, 238 The causal-noncausal alternation in Bantu: A historical- Ponsiano Kanijo and Malin Petzell comparative analysis
Antti Laine, Rasmus Bernander and 155 Causal-noncausal alternation in the Western Serengeti Lotta Aunio languages
discussion
D Virve Vihman, Serge Sagna, Marilyn 232 Acquisition of nominal inflection in Eegimaa: Where to Morpholo- Vihman and Dunstan Brown look for evidence of productivity? gy
Pius Akumbu 46 Grammatical functions of the Babanki nasal prefix
E Historical Mena B. Lafkioui 86 A qualitative and quantitative classification of Rif Berber Linguistics (from Senhaja to Iznasen) 2 Ekkehard Wolff 35 Refuting the Myth that (Central) Chadic Vowels Cannot Be Reconstructed under the Neogrammarian Hypothesis
F TONE Bruce Connell, Jason Harper, Alina 294 Tone and utterance in Mambila workshop Kuimova and David Zeitlyn
Daniel Aremu and Frank Kügler 106 On the suspension of downstep – the case of Yoruba polar question intonation
Mirella Blum and Bert Remijsen 77 Between-dialect variation in Dinka tone systems
Virginia Beavon-Ham and Timothy 175 An analysis of tone implementation in a Gbe language Kempton using forced alignment
G Minority Ndum Wulekiawi Linda Songbi and 45 Emergency linguicism: Linguistic minorities of North-West Pius Akumbu Cameroon in emergencies
Shannon Yee 169 Minority language orthography and literacy: A case study of Swo in Cameroon
Thursday 10 June 2021
Keynote address Martha Qorro "Nafasi ya lugha katika elimu barani Afrika: Suala la Kiswahili nchini Tanzania" (15:00-15:45)
author ID title
0 extra Gregory D.S. Anderson and Anna 61 Living Dictionaries: A tutorial for languages of Africa
workshop Luisa Daigneault
A CONT Hannah Gibson, Lutz Marten, 249 Tracing inheritance and contact in Bantu languages: workshop Rebecca Grollemund and Peter Evidence from morphosyntactic variation Edelsten
Lorenzo Maselli, Sara 101 Phonetic and laboratory phonological research on Pacchiarotti and Koen Bostoen hunter-gatherer substrate interference in the West- Coastal Bantu homeland region: Some preliminary results
David Kopa Wa Kopa and Birgit 227 Distribution des labiales-vélaires dans les langues mokpá, Ricquier ɛnyá, metóko et d’autres langues avoisinantes du Bas Lualaba : Essai d’une analyse historique
Tom Güldemann, Francesca Di 54 Contact-induced change in gender systems of northern Garbo and Annemarie Verkerk Bantu languages
B Friederike Lüpke, Jérémi Sagna and 208 LILIEMA: Inclusive multilingual literacy as a basis for the Multilingua Miriam Weidl successful dissemination of critical health information lism 1 Verbra Pfeiffer 11 The impact that English-Only writing can have on multilingual university students.
Sayaka Kutsukake 51 Examining flexible language practices in Tanzania from a translanguaging perspective
Ana Lívia Agostinho 292 Creole languages in education: The case of Lung’Ie
C Discourse Melanie Viljoen 123 Highlighted Action Construction in Gavar 16:00 1 - Hasiyatu Abubakari 9 A serializing discourse particle in Kusaal 18:00 Sara Petrollino 160 Bridging constructions in Hamar
Paulette Roulon-Doko and Alfred 69 Les marqueurs du discours rapporté dans deux parlers Dui gbaya, le ɓodoe et le yaayuwee
D Solange Mekamgoum and Roland 141 Ngəmba interrogatives Questions Kiessling
Christelle Niguieu Toukam 191 Asymétrie entre les Qu in-situ et Qu ex-situ en ndà'ndà'
Himidan Hassen, Peter Jenks, Nina 291 Content questions in Tira Hagen Kaldhol and Sharon Rose
E YOUTH Introduction workshop Ellen Hurst-Harosh 96 Phonological processes in Tsotsitaal: metaphors, borrowings and performance
Sambulo Ndlovu 37 Information and communication technologies as source domains in S'ncamtho metaphor conceptualisation
Nico Nassenstein 30 On Metaphor and Taboo: Labeling Sexual Organs in African Youth Language Practices
F Demola Lewis 285 Nominal Consonant Harmony in Standard Yoruba Phonology 2 Richard Griscom, Andrew Harvey, 247 Distinctive features and articulatory gestures in Hadza Alain Ghio and Didier Demolin Christfried Naumann, Budzani 233 Setswana mid vowels revisited Mogara-Gabanamotse and Dipogiso Molefhi
G SIGN Ingeborg Groen 222 Anger expression in GSL workshop Hope E. Morgan, Evans N. Burichani 211 Lexical intensifiers in Kenyan Sign Language: use, and Jared O. Osome motivation, & etymology
Mariana Martins, Amaré Soares and 58 The incorporation of emblematic gestures in the Marcos de Barros emerging sign language of Guinea-Bissau
Nargess Asghari 122 Iconicity in the Semantic Domain of Animal Terms in Berbey Sign Language (Mali)
Marta Morgado 148 Mouth movements in the depiction of size and shape: Comparing two village sign languages in West Africa with different time depths
Stephen Parkhurst 32 The Use of Relational Space in Deaf Song
Break (18:00-19:00)
A CONT Andrew Harvey 55 The lack of labiodentals in Ihanzu as a result of contact workshop with Hadza
Hilde Gunnink, Natalia Chousou- 84 Inhence and contact in the diversification of Southern Polydouri and Koen Bostoen Bantu languages
Jeffrey Wills and Admire Phiri 176 The Contact of Khoisan Languages with the Bantu Shonic group (S10)
Discussion
B Miriam Weidl 189 What multilingualism do you speak? Languaging as Multilingua integral part of multilingual speakers lives in the lism 2 Casamance, Senegal
Crescentia Ugwuoa and Roseline 10 Documentating Local Drug Terminologies in Multilingual Okorji Nigeria
Gabriella Oliveira 225 Multilingualism and language ecology: aspects of the Portuguese in contact with the African native languages spoken in Angola
19:00 Adebola Isaiah 276 Narrative and vocabulary development in Yoruba and - English bilinguals 21:00 C Discourse Anthony Struthers-Young 80 Same subject reference in Northern Toussian 2 Alexander Cobbinah 66 Tail-Head Linkage in Creole and Atlantic languages of the Upper Guinea Coast
D Syntax 1 Mohamed Boubane and Harold 269 Two Kinds of Headed Relative Clauses in Bassari Torrence
Abass Ngoungouo Yiagnigni 124 The structure of conditional clauses in Shupamem
E Youth 2 Rasaq Ajadi 165 By Metaphor we Fight: Youth and Metaphoric Internet Memes in the 2020 Nigerian #ENDSARS Protest
Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju 272 Indexicality and the gendered metaphor in Nigerian youth usage
Discussion
F Songfolo Lacina Silue 226 La contrainte d’élision vocalique du /i/ en kafire : une Phonology preuve de l’origine des syllabes fermées en sénoufo 3 Kolawole Adeniyi 103 Phonological Analysis of Synonym Rivalry in Yoruba Michael Obiri-Yeboah 145 Interactions Between ATR Vowel Harmony and Nasality
Emmanuel-Moselly Makasso 149 L-Vocalization in Basaa
G Senses Francine Moguo F. 31 Iconic morphology and the study of ideophones in Ghomálá'
Muzi Matfunjwa 19 An Exploration of the Ideophone in Siswati
Jonathan Tanihu and Samuel 43 The heart became hot: Conceptualization of Anger in Alhassan Issah Dagbani and Dangme
Saskia van Putten 234 The language of the senses in Avatime (Ghana)
Friday 11 June 2021
Keynote address Woinshet Girma "Sign Language Development in Africa" (15:00-15:45)
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A Bantu 1 Makoto Furumoto 71 A synchronic and diachronic analysis of the Kimakunduchi final vowel
Liliane Hodieb 100 Augment, Bantu, Grassfields, Noun-classification, Wushi, Paper-presentation
Andre Batchelder-Schwab 187 Alienability distinctions in Southern Bantu languages
Nancy Kula and Yuka Makino 221 Anterior and Perfective in Lamba and Bemba
B Varieties Zempilo Gumede 2 The positivity and negativity of learning isiZulu non- standard varieties
Chibuzo Nwoko 40 The state of Ngwa dialect in the 21st century: Harmonization and standardization of its dialect clusters through corpus planning
Abang Elizabeth Bi Maondo and 125 A Unified Code System for Cameroon Pidgin English: Yes or Gratien Atindogbe No?
Yvonne Ollennu 212 A morphophonological and sociological analysis of linguistic variations among Gas.
C Number Jan Junglas and Tom Güldemann 144 The tripartite semantics of tripartite number marking
Roger Blench 130 The erosion of number marking in West Chadic nominals
Rahel T. Dires 107 Singulatives in Cushitic languages: a typological study
16:00 Gashaw Arutie Asaye 63 Lexicalization of motion events in Amharic - D Syntax 2 Claudius P. Kihara 34 Typology of Conditional Sentences in Gĩkũyũ (E51) 18:00 Harold Torrence and Blake Lehman 287 Argument marking in Foto Dschang
Zhuo Chen and Blake Lehman 244 Cognate object constructions in Dschang
Jason Smith 156 Analyzing Postverbal Direct Objects in Mende
E Locatives Enoch Aboh & James Essegbey 301 Loactives in Gbe
Gerrit Jan Dimmendaal and Gertrud 15 Locative expressions and their semantic extensions in Tima Schneider-Blum
James Essegbey 17 On the syntax and semantics of the Ewe verb dó
Samuel Atintono, Dorothy Pokua 116 A Comparative Study of the Basic Locative Construction in Agyepong and Promise Dodzi Gurenɛ, Asante- Twi, and Ewe Kpoglu
F Izabela Jordanoska 42 Between agreement and concession: Two Wolof particles Subjective on the road to grammaticalization
Deo Kawalya 246 The expression of evidentiality in Luganda (Bantu, JE15)
Matthew Czuba 270 Seeing is Believing: Evidentiality in the Verbal System of Dschang
Abbie Hantgan-Sonko and Tatiana 121 The special status of reported commands: A proposed Nikitina development of quotatives from addressee markers
G SIGN Margaret Odhiambo 220 Sign Language and Deaf Education workshop Adelsa Tavares 26 Portuguese Language Learning by Deaf Students
Angoua Tano 296 L’accord spatial des verbes ou agreement verbs dans la Langue des Signes de Bouakako: prospection et esquisse de description
Amy Palmer, Anne Baker and Kate 143 Developing a sentence repetition test for the evaluation of Huddlestone deaf children’s use of South African Sign Language
Closing session (18:00-18:30)
Break (18:30-19:00)
A Bantu 2 Olga Kharytonava 242 Documenting Kimbundu Varieties
Judith Simeo 215 Is the locative class 16 ha- morpheme a noun class prefix or a locative prefix in Subi?
Constantine Kouankem and Malte 5 Contrastive FOCUS and verb doubling in Mə̀dʉ́mbɑ̀ Zimmermman
Jens Fleischhauer and C. Patrick 36 The syntax and semantics of Gĩkũyũ comparative Kihara constructions
B Mobility Wellington Santos da Silva 250 An Eastern Gbe variety in Colonial Brazil: The case of Língua & Identity Geral de Mina (18th century)
Esmeralda Negrão and Evani Viotti 241 The impact of Bantu and Gbe languages in Brazilian Portuguese syntax: evidence for the uniformitarian hypothesis
Lynn Kisembe, Omar Egesah and 70 Identity Interactions during Mobility along the Kenya Busolo Wegesa Uganda Highway
Eno Etteokon and Baridisi Isaac 279 The Structural Analysis of Adverbial of Manner in Ibibio
C Socio- Chunguang Li & Yakubu Magaji 186 Euphemism and Taboo: A cross-linguistic and cross-cultural Pragmatics Azare Comparison between Hausa and Mandarin
Divine Ndimofor 76 A Socio-pragmatic Analysis of Apology Strategies in Two 19:00 Bantu Languages - 21:00 Yusuph Masinde 152 Typological Variations of Greetings in the Ethnic Community Languages of Tanzania
Emilisco Jones Enoachuo 115 Socio-pragmatic implications of Kenyang refusals
D Adverbs / Cameron Hamm 140 Basic and compound subject pronouns in Chufie’ (Niger- Syntax Congo, Bantoid, Grassfields)
Nomsa Skosana and Respect 22 Morpho-semantic analysis of isiNdebele Adverbs: A corpus- Mlambo based study
Abdelouahed Chkirbane 112 The Placement of Adverbial Expressions In MA: An Optimality-Theoretic Approach
Alfred Dui 73 La transcatégorialité en gbaya yaayuwee : l’exemple de wèn ‘parole’ et ha̰ ‘donner’
E Naming Rachel Ayuk Ojong Diba 25 Small-scale multilingualism and naming patterns in Lower practices Fungom
Jane Oduor 262 Emerging Dholuo Anthroponyms
Abang Elizabeth 299 Naming as a Culture: The Case of Days of the Week and Months of the Year in Denya, Mokpe, Mankon and Bɨfɨɨ
Respect Mlambo and Muzi 8 A thematic comparison of Siswati and Xitsonga Proverbs: A Matfunjwa corpus-based study Final get-together (21:00-22:00)