7th World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL7) University of Buea, August 20th – 24th , 2012 P.O. Box 63 Buea. Email: [email protected]
Day 1: Monday August 20, 2012 Morning session
8:00 – 9:45 Registration
9:30 – 11:00 Poster Session I
1) Language development in Chad - Beat Kunz 2) Using posters in linguistics training in Chad - Mary Pearce 3) Dictionnaires et dromadaires en langue dazaga - Mahamat Wardougou Chidi, Hassan Bolobo Maïde, Ramadan Hassaballah, Mahamoud Koki Omouri , Rivers Camp, Mary Pearce 4) SVO/OVS Pronoun patterns in Mubi - Emma Kuipers 5) Pronoms possessifs en mogoum - Youssouf Moussa, Hassan Djarma, Emma Kuipers 6) La forme locative du nom en mawa - Youssouf Hissein (FAPLG) 7) La morphophonologie dans l’orthographe mawa – Youssouf Hissein (FAPLG), James Roberts 8) Highly Precise Colour Naming in African Languages Arnold Groh 9) Language Choice in African Mobile Telephony Arnold Groh 10) The Catalogue of Endangered Languages (ELCat) project Anna Belew 11:15 – 12:30 Opening Ceremony 11:15 Welcome by Wocal7 organisers 11:25 Welcome by Secretary General of Wocal – Matthias Brenzinger 11:35 Welcome by President of Wocal Standing Committee – Akin Akinlabi 11:45 Word from Executive Secretary of CERDOTOLA – Prof Charles Binam Bikoi 11:55 Interlude – UB choir 12:10 Welcome by the Vice Chancellor of UB – Prof Nalova Lyonga 12:30 Keynote address by the Minister of Higher Education - Prof Jacques Fame Ndongo 12:45 – 14:00 Welcome cocktail
Afternoon Session 14:00 – First Plenary : Amphi 750 Jean-Marie Hombert and Rebecca Grollemund: “Development of Bantu specialized lexicon” 15:00 Moderator: Beban Sammy Chumbow Language in Education Language Documentation Social Dimensions of Phonetics & Phonology Morphosyntax (Room1) (R2) Language + Language (R4) (R5) Moderation: Matthias Contact + Intercultural Moderation: Michel Brenzinger Communication (R3) Moderation: Keith Moderation: Edmond Lafon & Adjaratou & Ana Stela A. Cunha Moderation: Roland Snider & Kyoko Koga Biloa & Raimundo Oumar Sall Kiessling Enedino Dos Santos & Yamina El Kirat 15:20 – Justifying discipline-specific One or two languages? Bom Exploring request speech act and Non-Compositional Tones in Frozen verbal forms in 15:45 English academic literacy and Kim, two highly request strategies in the ghomala Defaka Compounds Akinbiyi Kanuri – aspects of support for university endangered South Atlantic language Akinlabi, Bruce Connell, grammaticalisation and education languages of Sierra Leone G. Gabriel Mba William Bennett, Inoma lexicalisation H.G. Butler Tucker Childs Essien Eva Rothmaler Savoirs locaux et langues Une hiérarchie prosodique sans The pragmatics of the 15: 45 – Oral Language Documentation Linguistic Diversities In African locales pour l’enseignement groupe phonologique: le cas de subject and object markers of 16:10 in Ngungwel Nation States: Stepping Stones en Afrique l’embosi (C25) Annie Kua/Cua Angela Williams-Ngumbu Or Stumbling Blocks For Henry TOURNEUX Rialland, Georges Martial Mawande Dlali Development HADIDJA Konaï Embanga A., Jean-Marc Andy Chebanne Greg S. Kame Beltzung 16:10 – Second Language Education A Documentatioin Of The Oro An appraisal of subtitling by the The Morpho-phonological 16:35 In Cameroun Traditional Children Games, hard-of-hearing in Cameroon: a Processes Operating in Chuka: Plural derivation in the noun Emmanuel Nforbi Songs And Dances case study A “Conservative” Dialect in the class system of Ndengeleko Golden Ekpo Ayonghe Lum Suzanne, Meru-Tharaka Group Eva-Marie Ström Wojungbwen Gumuh Fridah Erastus Kanana Emmanuel 16:35 – Break Break Break Break Break 17:05
Sociolinguisti cs Workshop Information Session Moderation: Jeff Good & Tucker Childs 17:05 – Language Issues and When the “wrong” language The English of Efik- English Briefing on outcomes of Some Aspects of Verbal 17:30 Challenges Associated With is being documented. bilinguals workshop Morphology in Dagik Educational Assessment for Language documentation Eyo Offiong Mensah (Kordofanian, Regional and language shift among Talodi) Integration: A Case Study of Bakola community(ies) in John Vanderelst the Wider East African Cameroon. Community Emmanuel NGUE UM & Bertha Othoche , Ronnie Daniel Duke Anyanzwa 17:30 – The Role of “Proclaimer” in Early Language West African contact languages: ELDP – Information and advice Arguments for a nasal 17:55 meeting the literacy challenge Documentation by Herero are they pidgins or creoles? Mandana Seyfeddinipur consonant cluster analysis of in Cameroon Missionaries Aloysius Ngefac Sukwa James Tasah N. Atikonda Akuzike Mtenje Martina Anissa Stroemer
17:55– 18:20 Variations dialectales, Documentation of the Monolingualism by The Catalogue of Endangered Adverbs And Adverbial variations orthographiques et Vocabulary and tone melodies Multilingualism: A Languages (ELCat) project Modifications In Kenyang système d’écriture emergents of the Boro-Ukwala dialect of Sociolinguistic Case Study of Anna Belew Florence A.E.Tabe Oben Jean Romain Kouesso Dholuo Language Use in Western Jane Akinyi Ngala Oduor Ugandan City, Hoima Shigeki Kaji 18:20 – Les défis inhérents a On Bilingual Education in Towards Capacity Building: An Training session and The Structure of the Bantu 18:45 l’intellectualisation des Africa Exploration of Code-Switching in consultations NP: Issues from Eastern and langues africaines: le cas Davidson Mbagwu & Selected Local Schools Cape Southern Bantu Languages d’une langue camerounaise, le Cecilia Amaoge Eme Town Amani Lusekelo yambetta Magdalene Mbong Maxime Yves Julien Manifi
Day 2: Tuesday August 21, 2012 Morning Session 8:30 – 9:30 Second Plenary: Beban Sammy Chumbow The Language Factor in a Model of Appropriation of Innovations in Science and Technology Moderation: EKKERHARD, WOLF
Language in Education Language Diversity R3 Social Dimensions of Phonetics & Phonology Morphosyntax (R1) (R2) Language (R4) (R5) Moderation: Gabriel Mba Moderation: Jeff Good (R3) Moderation: Akin Moderation: & Henry TOURNEUX & Fatima Hamlaoui Moderation: Shigeki Akinlabi & Niba Mawande Dlali & Kaji & Martin Puetz Ayu’unwi Joshua T. Ham 9:50 – 10:15 Better be second than Faits morphophonologiques Actual Clauses in nowhere ! In South Africa, dans la comparaison Lubukusu and the Theory their teaching as second de trois dialectes wolof : le Gender distinction and Phonological structure of of Clausal wolof de Dakar, le faana- language change in Kamtok soumray verbs Complementation languages may be the faana du Saloum et le lébu de Carole de Féral James Roberts Mark Baker, Ken salvation of African languages Ouakam Safir,Justine Sikuku MICHEL LAFON Mamour Dramé 10:15 – 10:40 Language, Education and Identity Ideologies of Africa's Egyptian Arabic as a Written Tone in Western Ejagham The Pronouns in Wolayta Construction in Post Colonial language diversity Language (Etung): Lexical tone on Bekale Seyum Cameroon: Implications for Matthias Brenzinger Haruko Sakaedani verb forms with segmental Development in the era of affixes John R. Watters Globalisation Blasius Chiatoh & Wainkem Praxidis 10:40 – 11:05 Passive and Neuter Hegemonic Discourse In Toward a proposition of Less common verb Learning to Teach Learning Constructions in Setswana: A Some Cameroonian phonological proto-system extensions in Ruhaya Naftali H. Stern comparative study Newspapers: The Post, of A80 Setumile Morapedi Cameroon Tribune And Le Marion Cheucle Henry R. T. Muzale Messager Of 2009 Caroline Stephanie Jiogo Ngaufack 11:05 – 11:35 Coffee break Coffee break Coffee break Coffee break Coffee break 11:35 – 12:00 Documenting Learning in French Ideophones in Narrow The impact of cosmopolitan Transparency of epenthetic Pied-piping, remnant as a Foreign Language Grassfields Bantu Languages towns on local languages: vowels in Xitsonga movement and clause Sellah L. Lusweti Pius W. Akumbu & perspectives and solutions. Loanwords structure in Muyang Emmanuel N. Tabah Guy Merlin Tchagoua Seunghun Julio Lee Edmond Biloa
12:00– 12:25 The language of symbols and The origin and spread of Complaining” in two Vowel Length in La néologie d’emprunt a- African Communication: A case possessee-like qualifiers in communication cultures of the Chumburung: An t-elle un impact sur le study of Ngemba Central Africa Cameroonian Grassfields Instrumental Study système phonologique et Lydie Christelle Talla Makoudjou Mark Van de Velde Doreen Schröter, Keith Snider morphologique du baka ? Britta Neumann, Bertille Djoupee Roland Kießling 12:25 – 12:50 Language Planning Issues: Some Synchronic Labialvelar: A A Hausa Semantics of Affect: Tone in Mursi – First The adverb duwô in Proposals to the Challenge of a Case Study of Gender 3/4 Love Encoding in Computer Observations Kanuri/Kanembu ‘Critical Mass Number’ of Nouns in Eastern Beboid Mediated Linguistic Exchange Bettina Mütze (Saharan) Teachers of Cameroonian Languages Gian Claudio Batic Doris Löhr Languages and Cultures Richard Boutwell Nge Deris Meh
12:50 – 13:15 Language-in-education La derivation en cab: Nonverbal Communication in The geographic distribution Focusing complex development in Rwanda: An Contribution a Intercultural Communication of bilabial trills in Africa predicates exploration of the roles of L’etude de la morphologie Kenneth S. Olson Ines Fiedler English and Kinyarwanda lexicale des John J. Okon Tove Rosendal & Parlers Yoruba Pamela Pearson Adjeran Moufoutaou 13:15 – 14:25 Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch
Day 2: Tuesday August 21, 2012 Afternoon Session 14:30 – 15:30 Third Plenary : Amphi 750 …… EKKERHARD, WOLF: Language Policy Implementation in Africa Moderation: Gabriel Mba Typology and Language Social Dimensions of Morphosyntax Morphosyntax Classification Phonetics/Phonology Language, Intercultural (R4) (R5) (R1) (R2) communication Moderation: Florence Moderation: Moderation: Evelyn Moderation: John R. (Room3) A.E.Tabe Oben & Margarida Maria Forgwe and Mirjam Watters & Fridah Erastus Moderation: Chiatoh Mark Baker Taddoni Petter & Möller Kanana Blasius & Carole de Féral Bekale Seyum
A Classification of The Talodi On the markedness of high [- Cultural Imperialism and Modal-Aspect Complexes in 15:50 – 16:15 Ventive and itive Languages ATR] and mid [+ATR] vowels: Preservation of Yoruba Culture Yoruba, a tenseless constructions in Pɛrɛ Russell Norton & Some non-trivial effects of vowel and Tradition and development language? (Adamawa Region, Thomas Abdalla inventory structure of African states Yun-Hsin Chang Cameroon) Roderic F. Casali Ezekiel Tunde Bolaji Funmilayo Amos Raimund Kastenholz Jeleel Olasunkanmi Ojuade Olorundare 16: 15 – 16:40 Problèmes de classification Moroccans’ Attitudes towards Emergence of inflectional Syntax of Yorùbá ní-particle des langues africaines: the Use of Mother Tongues as system: the case of Mwan Expressions Intonation and Negation in Akan l’exemple du sawabantu the Language of Instruction Elena Perekhvalskaya o n on olorun o l ri Charlotte Fofo Lomotey (Bantu A.20 et A.30) Karima Belghiti & Carl Ebobissé Yamina El Kirat 16:40 – 17:05 The place of Ijoid in Niger- Templatic Reduplication In The Gender-Age dichotomy in Subject Agreement and Congo: A review of the Karang inter-cultural communication: Antecedent Agreement in Transitivity Classes In evidence Elisatbeth Njantcho K. The case of Shisukuma speakers Lubukusu Seereer Ool Bruce Connell, Akinbiyi of Kiswahili Ken Safir and Justine Marie Ngom Akinlabi Herman Batibo Sikuku William Bennett 17:05 – 17:35 Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break
17:35 – 18:00 Sorting out the position of Vowel harmony in kuria The Diminishing Vitality of Object Shift in Akoose: Case Bantu languages in Bantoid Mary Zacharia Charwi Rendille: A Consequence of Questioning Strategies in Deficiency or Agreement Rebecca Grollemund and Intercultural Contact Between Oyda Requirements? Jean-Marie Hombert Rendille and Samburu. Azeb Amha Michael Etuge Apuge Kenneth Kamuri Ngure 18:00 – 18:25 L’adele comparé aux langues Phonological adaptation of Rebuking in Ngemba: A Study Negation and the Structure La quantification en bayot du sous-groupe Gurma loanwords into màdá: An in Facework across the Age and of Limbum kugere. Analyse Laré KANTCHOA optimality theory account Linda Social Power Ladders Solange Gratiana Linyor Ndamsah morphologique, syntaxique Chinelo Nkamigbo Virginie Mekamgoum et sémantique à visée didactique Mbacké Diagne 18:25 – 18:50 An Akedoid hypothesis in Vowel systems in Nigerian The use of African languages in Connectives in Gyeli Nominalization Strategies In West Benue-Congo languages cities’ markets : the case of Nadine Borchardt Bete Ben Elugbe Matthew Harley Yaoundé – Cameroon Carlos Goprou Djaki Sandrine AVOA M
18:50 – 19:15 An nstrumental tudy of Pitch in Stereotypes, Ethnocentrism and Verb complements in Moro gb Intercultural communication in Sharon Rose Cecilia Amaoge Eme , Linda Nigeria: a Theoretical Analysis Chinelo Nkamigbo Chima Onwukwe & Uzoma C. Etienne Sadembouo Okugo
Day 3: Wednesday August 22, 2012 Morning Session 8:30 – 9:30 Fourth Plenary: Amphi 750 Felix K. Ameka Passives on the West African coast?
Morphosyntax and Discourse Structure Social Dimensions of Linguistic Analysis & Syntax Linguistic Analysis others (R2) Language Discourse (R5) (R6) (R1) Moderation: Greg S. (R3) (R4) Moderation: Moderation: Elena Moderation: Kame & Moderation : Angela Moderation: Eyo Carlos Fotso & Perekhvalskaya & Raimund Zakari M. Tchagbalé Williams-Ngumbu & Offiong Mensah & Delphine Efa Linda Chinelo Kastenholz & Esmeralda Vailati Yamina El Kirat Nkamigbo Marion Cheucle Negrão 9:50 – 10:15 Focusing of WH The use of discourse Challenges and examples of Phonological and lexical Negation strategies in Lexicalized Consonant- Questions and Answers particles in code-switching collecting informed consent strategies for expressing Obang Tone interaction in Ga and Dangme among selected staff and in Tanzania in culturally emotions in Igala: A view Melvice Asohsi in Nyali-Kilo [nlj] Cecilia Kotey, students of the University of appropriate and respectful from Cognitive Infinitive Verbs Regina O. Caesar Jos, Nigeria Olufunmilay ways Linguistics Kent Rasmussen M. Ogunkeye Susanne Krüger Liliane Tokula & Martin Puetz 10:15 – 10:40 Features of Bantu Analysis of Four Texts in Total immersion as The Expression of Koorete Conditional Le nom indiciaire dans Location and Direction in the Loma Script community driven approach Property Concepts in Constructions les parlers gbè : une Angolan and Brazilian Charles L. Riley for an efficient revitalisation Nyam Lydia Hoeft problématique oral Portuguese of endangered languages Ulrike Zoch terminologique et pan Raimundo Enedino Dos Gabriel Djomeni chronique Santos Elie Yebou 10:40 – 11:05 Negation in Yukuben Elements of information Langues et adaptation des The Negative Transfer of Bidirectionality in the Ibibio Causative and (Benue-Congo) highlighting in Aja (Kwa) communautés Hunan Dialect in Swahili grammaticalization of Anti-Causative Verb Rose-Juliet Anyanwu texts ethnolinguistiques Pronunciation and Its ‘come’ and ‘go’ in Alternations Ogbonna Virginia Beavon-Ham minoritaires à l’usage des Counter measures Li Chaga Anyanwu langues dans les institutions Kunruonan Daisuke publiques en Afrique : cas SHINAGAWA du Cameroun Julia Ndibnu Messina Ethé 11:05 – Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break 11:30 11:30 – 11:55 The Category of Number Exploring narrative Langues bantoues et African Proverbs and Eyes of beans and Focus in Avatime in African Languages structure and tense-aspect orthographie, l’autre défi: Development fingers of plantains - Saskia van Putten Maarten Mous markers in Yeyi (Bantu) and nominaux et verbaux Joseph N. Mfonyam Numeral classifiers in Nalu (Atlantic) André David Njock Niger-Congo languages Frank Seidel Roland Kießling 11:55 – 12:20 Swahili ma-/-am and The study of Western Hegemony and Negotiation Aesthetics in Anaang The Function of the Body part locatives in M`VVr´e -m: a unified Sudanese Chronicles in Pluralist Ethiopia: The Proverbs. Morpheme gäna in Gaahmg, a Nilo-Saharan account “Ta’rikh al-Fattash” and Zay Language Story EmemObong Udoh Amharic Language of Sudan Odile Issa “Ta’rikh as- udan” in Endashaw Woldemichael Delombera Negga Timothy M. Stirtz Su-toog-nooma Kabore Russia in historical and Jima sociological aspects. Mark V. Goloviznin 12:20 – 12:45 “A very long thing of Documenting The English Sound-spelling PROVERBS AS Le processus de la Tonal and morphological tooth” – encoding Information Structure Of correspondence and EVIDENCE OF SOCIAL formation du Wh- properties of the qualities in Isu (West The Tunen Language Proficiency in Subjects with INEQUALITY IN IGBO Question en Yebekolo Mbugwe verbal system. Ring) Roland Kießling Jacquis K. Welaze Differential Modes of Iwuchukwu, Godwin Berthe Ada-Biwole Vera Wilhelmsen Acquisition C.S. & Ndimele, Fontem A. Neba Roseline Ihuoma 12:45 – 13:10 On decomposing Discourse functions of Culture, Nature, Orature: A The Fate Of A Lexicon Langues locales au Reduplication in Embsi pronouns again Ideophones in Siyase Symbiotic Trio in the Of Bantu Origin In Brazil Cameroun et prémices Yvon Pierre Ndongo Blasius Achiri-Taboh Francisca adzo Adjei Appropriation of Cultural Margarida Maria d'une découverte des Ibara Heritage in Africa Taddoni Petter TIC : Cas de l'Atelier Gwendolene P. Zenabuin Going kompyuta Olivier Moussa Loumpata 13:10 – Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch 14:25
Day 3: Wednesday August 22, 2012 Afternoon Session: 14:30 – 15:30 Fifth Plenary: Amphi 750 Karsten Legère & Gratien Gualbert Atindogbe: Documenting minority/endangered languages. Background, state of the art and achievements (examples from Tanzania and Cameroon) Moderation: Blasius Taboh Achiri Syntax Linguistic Analysis Historical Linguistics/ Linguistic Analysis Morphosyntax Social R1 R3 Grammaticalisation R5 R6 Demiensions + Moderation: Ken Safir Moderation: Doreen R4 Moderation: Mark Moderation: Language Contact & Amani Lusekelo Schroeter & Paulo Moderation: Tove Van de Velde & Kenneth Olson & R7 Jeferson Pilar Rosendal & Saskia van Odile Issa Khalil Alio Moderation: Putten Britta Neumann & Zinawork A. 15:50 – 16:15 Arguments for the non Prosodic and Syntactic Simplification of the nominal Reduplication in Mafa Sentence final particles The social history of movement of operator head Expression of Information class system in the Central and Cuvok, two Central in Ikwere the contact between in Meta(Utah), Tiv, and Structure in Bàsàa African Bantu Bendo [ɓɛndɔ] Chadic languages of Sylvester N. OSU Africans and Yoruba Declaratives: An Christina Thornell Cameroon Europeans in the George T. Teke Experimental Investigation Dadak Ndokobai emergence of Fatima Hamlaoui Brazilian Portuguese Esmeralda Vailati Negrão & Evani Viotti 16:15 – 16:40 The Syntax Of Null Reduction of noun classes D L’ R N T D LA Focusing in Ngamambo The numeral system in Refusal strategies Elements In Hausa and the emergence of AL R L N T Sirih-Nagang Nancy Kabiyè and Tem, two across cultures: Ahmed Amfani semantic classification in D L’ T M W » EN Nyindem related and neighboring A Study on refusal to Bafanji MIYOBE, LANGUE languages: invitations in the Cameron Hamm PARLEE AU TOGO ET AU convergences and Akum and Kom BENIN) divergences communities PALI Tchaa Zakari M. Tchagbalé Nchang Divine & Balaïbaou Kassan Ndimofor 16:40 – 17:15 Multiverb constructions in Aspects phonologiques et Disappearing lexemes In Igbo Reference to Future The status of nasal Transforming Third Nda’nda’ and the hierarchy morphologiques du mënik dialects: An effect of language Time in C’Lela, a ainji consonants in Gbe World Nations of homorganic nasals Adjaratou Oumar Sall variation and change Language of Nigeria languages: the case of through effective Hugues Carlos Gueche Cecilia A. Eme & Stephen H. Dettweiler Saxwgbe Translation and Fotso Greg O. Obiamalu Joshua T. Ham Interpreting studies. Njeck Mathaus Mbah 17:15 – 17:45 Coffee break Coffee break Coffee break Coffee break Coffee break 17:45 – 18:10 Negative Complement Is Chimiini a dialect of From postpositions to TAM Alternative Perspectives à - un simple Kiswahili and Taking Expressions in Kiswahili or not? markers: Historical evolution to Subject Marking morpheme si complexe Cultural development Hausa: A Preliminary Preliminary results of the verbal systems in South in Kacipo-Balesi en ewondo Rémi Armand Study Meikal Mumin Mande Larisa Kapranova Louis Martin Tchokothe Abubakar Muhammad Valentin Vydrin Onguene Essono 18:10 – 18:35 Spatial Agreement and Tone, Stress and Grammaticalisation et valeur Pronouns in Katcha Grammaire du bébot Development of Word Order in Kenyan Sign Intonation: Interaction and expressive de marques de Christine Waag (langue parlée au Sidaama in the Last Language Notation in Ika Igbo l’imperfectif dans le bantu A Tchad): phonétique, Two Decades Hope E. Morgan Rene Ndedje phonologie, Anbessa Teferra Joy Oluchi Uguru morphologie syntaxe Yaphete MADJIRADE 18:35 – 19:00 Comparing Reflexive and Prenasalized consonant- Pronoun Systems as evidence Nominal Forms In Pori Ethnocentricism, A survey of language Object Marking in like acquisition in for language history (Bantu A90) Stereotypes and use and language Lubukusu Bambara infants’ babbling: Bruce Connell Wega Simeu Intercultural attitude in Adekunle Justine Mukhwana Sikuku precocious mother tongue communication in Ajasin University influence on children’s Nigeria: A theoretical Akungba-Akoko productions analysis Ondo State, Nigeria Ibrahima CISSE & Chima Onwukwe & Oyebade Francis O, Nathalie VALLEE Anduzoma Okugo Agoyi Taiwo O 20:00 – 22:00 Business Meeting – WOCAL Standing Committee
Day 4: Thursday August 23, 2012 (Plenary, Workshops, Parallel sessions, Poster Sessions) Morning Session 8:30 – Sixth Plenary : Maurice Tadadjeu : Expérimentation des Ecoles Rurales Electroniques en Langues Africaines (ERELA) au Cameroun 9:30 Moderation: Blasius Chiatoh 9:30 – Goedele de Clerck & Sam Lutalo-Kiingi: Sign Language Research and Development in Africa: State of the Art 10:00 Moderation: Niba Ayu‘unwi Language in Language Social Morphosyntax African sign Post Negation Antipassives Poster Session Education Documentation Dimensions of R4 Language Workshop Workshop II R1 R2 Lang Moderation: Workshop R6 R7 Open Commons Moderation: Moderation: R3 Yvon Pierre R5 Moderation: Moderation: Moderation: Matthew Harley Daniel Duke & Moderation: Ndongo Ibara Moderation Devos, Maud Guillaume Mary Pearce & Emmanuel Emmanuel Joseph & Goedele de Segerer Nforbi Ngue-Um Mfonyam & Constantine Clerck & Sam Evani Viotti Kouankem Lutalo-Kiingi
10:20 Education, langue et Field Research La valeur de la The verbal Ekkehard Wolff Klaudia Vowel harmony – société en Afrique. Validity: Legal femme dans la system of the On post-verbal Dombrowsky-Hahn in Zan Goula 10:45 Lecture critique de and Ethical société traditionnelle Toram, an East negation in Chadic Antipassive in Senufo plurals - Silke l’aventure éducative Considerations Beti-fang. Chadic language languages Sauer, Mary camerounaise à la Mbarga Joseph of Chad Arnold Groh Viljoen, Melanie Pearce, FAPLG lumière de Pascal Khalil Alio Negation in Buwal: l’expérience des Denis Creissels Ekang du Cameroun Order Form and Les tons dans Origin and evolution of Jules Assoumou Meaning l’orthographe de antipassive markers in Dogs’ Languages or Documenting The Power of migaama - 10:45 Question West Mande People’s Languages? language dynamics Language in Coffee break Sakin, James – reinforcer and languages The Return of Bantu in sub–Saharan Morocco Elitism question Roberts, 11:10 Languages to Primary Africa: The case of through Language formation in Idiatov, Dmitry FAPLG Schools in Lower Fungom Proficiency Bakoko On the history of Kadindula Ya Vowel inventories Mozambique Jeff Good Yamina El Kirat & Gaston Bessala clause-final Mukoko Construction in Guera Chadic Edouard Kitoko- Mohammed V- negation in the antipassive du kisongye languages – Nsiku Agdal Mande languages of L23; une langue bantu Mary Pearce, 11:10 Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break the Bani-upper de la République FAPLG – Mouhoun river area Démocratique Du 11:40 Congo Ton dans 11:40 Cultural/Development Plants in the Communicative The Structure of Littig, Sabine & l’orthographe – Associations and Culture of Bédik: Competence: A case the Noun in Kleinewillinghöf Coffee break garab - Gane Mother Tongue an Ethnobotanical study of speech Yέmba Madda Azaria, 12:00 er, Ulrich Education among study errors of Igbo- Ndongmo Marie Gedéon Mbirip Negation patterns in Sebastian Dom and Young People in Adjaratou Sall English bilinguals in Joseline Koen Bostoen Zalios Cameroon Enugu urban area. Sama-Duru Henry Kam Kah Okoye, Loyce languages (Central Reciprocal/antipassive Chinenye & Adamawa) polysemy in Cilubà Utilisation des Onwuegbuchunam, (Bantu, L31a) auxiliaires dans la Marcellus.O Roulo-Doko, proposition simple 12:00 Silt'e as a Medium Language Change: Polyfunctional Paulette en zime-kelo - – of Instruction Documentation of A Sociolinguistic suffixes in Le mar ueur de Guillaume Segerer Weïbeng Study of a Moroccan Cherang’any 12:25 Hussein the Oyda Language négation n en Reciprocal, antipassive Matthieu Youth Vernacular: (Kalenjin/S. Mohammed Musa through its gbaya and the plurality of The Case of Hip Nilotic) verbal endangered relations : parallel Metrical systems material culture Hop Songs derivation developments in Bantu in 3 Chadic Moad HAJJAM Angelika Helma Pasch Azeb Amha & Double negation in and Atlantic languages - Mary & Yamina El Mietzner Bernhard Koehler the Ubangian Pearce Kirat languages with Timothy M. Stirtz 12:25 Writing Saving the Dying Code mixing Upstep And particular reference Antipassives and other Changements dans – morphophonology, Languages at the Between Amharic Gliding Tone In to Zande. Derivational l’orthographe reading lexical tone: Kenyan Coast: A and Afan-Oromo Igbo Dialect ngambaye - 12:50 Morphemes of an orthographic Case Study of the Zinawork Assefa Phonology Transitive Verbs in Nangone J. strategy for Boni Language Cecilia Eme Gaahmg, a Nilo- Chata, disambiguating Bertha Othoche , Amaoge, Saharan Language of Mbangnadji monosyllabic verb et al Ezenwafor Sudan Blaise forms in Kabiye Chikelu
David Roberts Ihunanya La morphologie et Helga Schroeder l’orthographe en 12:50 Mobility, ICTs And Intergenerational On the status of lone Sémantique et Passive and Antipassive in Nilotic oubi - Moumine – Mother Tongue Transmission in English verbs in emploi des AL-KHALI, 13:10 Preservation Amongst Cross Border Igbo-English verbes de The Kom Of Contexts: the case codeswitching position et de Moussa Cameroon, C.1940s- of Gungbe Ihu ma I. localisation dans OUMAR, 1998 Christine I. Akinrẹmi les langues Gur FAPLG Walter Gam Nkwi Ofulue Oti-Volta- Orientales Coffi Sambiéni 13:10 On the Orthographies Scripticide: The Les acteurs de Bàsàa Wh- – of Central kenya killing of Hausa- l’alphabétisation en questions and 13:30 Bantu Languages Ajami scripts and langues maternelles Prosodic Kithaka wa Mberia its aftermath in et les communautés Structuring Northern Nigeria linguisti ues à la Fatima Dahiru rescousse de Hamlaoui Muhammad l’éducation Emmanuel- Argungu multilingue au Togo. Moselly on ai ou ar Makasso Aminou 13:30 Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch – 14:45
Day 4: Thursday August 23, 2012 (Plenary, Workshops, Parallel sessions, Poster Sessions) Afternoon Session Linguistic Phonetics & Morphosyntax Linguistic Language African sign Post Negation Antipassives Poster Session Analysis Phonology R3 Analysis Documentation Language Workshop Workshop III R1 R2 Moderation: R4 Panel Workshop R7 R8 Open Commons Moderation: Moderation: Felix Ameka Moderation: R5 R6 Moderation: Moderation: Moderation: George T. Linda Chinelo & Angelika Gabriel Moderation: Moderation Devos, Maud Guillaume Mary Pearce Teke & Li Nkamigbo & Mietzner Djomeni & Gratien Goedele de Segerer Kunruonan Roderic F. Wainkem Atindogbe Clerck & Sam Casali Praxidis Lutalo-Kiingi 15:00 Kinship Tonal behavior of Le système des Aspects of Eggon Devos, Maud Location and – Terminology of heavy and light classes Phonology Possessive gender influences 15:25 Tabag syllables in Akan nominales en Amos pronouns as post- on tonal dialects (A Hill-Nubian Nouns senar (une Dlibugunaya in Kera - Mary verbal negative Nilo-Saharan) Kyoko Koga langue senufo markers in Bantu Pearce Khaleel Bakheet du Burkina languages: Massalit ATR Khaleel Ismail Faso) functional vowel system - Traoré Daouda motivation and Mary Pearce, la metatonie en Superimposed The noun class L’accentuation history Angela Prinz, 15:25 embosi boundary tones in system of d’éléments non Embanga selected Bantu Mmen : a accentogènes en Beate Tiemann – Aborobongui languages Central Ring français Ström, Eva- Epenthesis, vowel 15:50 Georges Martial Annie Rialland Grassfields camerounais : une Marie shortening and & Laura Bantu language violation de la loi Locative tone in Baraïn Downing Mirjam Möller naturelle ? interrogative as (Jalkiya) verbs - Angeline Djoum origin of the Joseph Nkwescheu postverbal Lovestrand 15:50 Location and Mid Open Vowell The medumba Interrogatives and negative marker Ton et voisement – Motion in Bantu harmony in relative clause information in Ndengeleko dans 16:15 Languages with Coastal Bantu: and the structure in and without The Case of architecture of Cameroon Pidgin Wilhelmsen, l’orthographe locative noun Mokpe and the left English: a kera - Mary Vera classes Mbonge periphery typological Pearce Negation in Paulo Jeferson Niba yu’unwi Constantine perspective Pilar Araujo Kouankem Miriam Ayafor Rangi and Formes verbales & en bavua - Tougli Mbugwe Philippe, Melanie Green 16:15 Language Acoustic The spatial Role and function Madikora Arou, Coffee Break – Migration investigation of configuration of of exoglossic Bactar Hirou Nathalie Lydie tone in spoken the Basic languages in Osée 16:40 Nitcheu Nigerian English Locative future Africa Education en Construction in Asma Moussa Eunice Fajobi langue maternelle some Bantu languages Coffee Break dans les écoles - Ana Stela A. Mbaihondoum Cunha, Justin
Paulo Nasalisation des Jeferson Pilar voyelles en Lélé - Araújo & Baikolo José Ndungi Mbadoum Balde 16:40 Coffee break Coffee Break Coffee break Coffee break Josephine, CNLL – Vowel Harmony 17:10 and reduction: Comparison of Kera and Massalit – Mary Pearce
Thursday
17:15 – 18:30 Closing Ceremony
Day 5 Friday August 24th
8:30 – 10:30 African Sign Language Workshop Continues
10:30 Visit to Limbe Botanical Garden and Wilde Life park