Program
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Thursday April 7
PT (UTC-7) | Local Time | Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3 | Session 4 |
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7:00-7:30 | 14:00-14:30 | Opening remarks (with tribute to Prof. Ọlanikẹ Ọla Orie) | |||
SYNTAX | SOCIOLINGUISTICS | PHONOLOGY | PRAGMATICS | ||
Session chair: Elena Callegari | Session chair: Raymond Huaute | Session chair: Chris Green | Session chair: Patricia Schneider-Zioga | ||
7:30-8:00 | 14:30-15:00 | One-Soon Her and Hung-Hsin Hsu | Yvonne Ollennu and Yvette Ussher | MOVED (to Saturday): John Odoom and Kwasi Adomako | Jenneke van der Wal, Iris Kruijsdijk and Nina van der Vlugt |
"Numeral Classifiers in Niger-Congo Languages Revisited" | "Promoting the Ghanaian Language: The Role of Telenovela Series" | MOVED (to Saturday): "Examining the Phonological Processes Concerned When Akan Personal Names Are Anglicized" | "Impersonal feelings in Makhuwa" | ||
8:00-8:30 | 15:00-15:30 | Wakweya Gobena | MOVED (to Saturday): Stella Afi Makafui Yegblemenawo, Doreen Enyonam Esi Yegblemenawo, Caroline Aku Akpene Yegblemenawo and Setor Donne Novieto | Kenneth Olson | Mary Amaechi and Jens Hopperdietzel |
"Predicative Possession in Amharic" | MOVED (to Saturday): "Negotiating culture, identity and language through the ‘Keshey’ verlan: the perspectives of the youth in Kumasi, Ghana" | "A preliminary phonology of Vale" | "Three types of serializing exceed comparatives in Igbo" | ||
8:30-9:00 | 15:30-16:00 | Firew Girma Worku | Samuel Alhassan Issah, Hasiyatu Abubakari, Samuel Awinkene Atintono and Sandow Atibiiri Aweaka | Lawrence Sandow and Helen Atipoka Adongo | Guillaume Guitang |
"Mursi Construct Form markers and the information they carry" | "Euphemisms as cultural negotiations in daily interactions in the Mabia languages of Ghana" | "Syllable structure processes in Kusaal loanword adaptation" | "Antilogophoricity in Gizey (Chadic)" | ||
9:00-9:30 | 16:00-16:30 | Hannah Gibson, Crous Hlungwane, Seunghun Lee and Kristina Riedel | Precious Affia | Michael Cahill | Colin Brown, Zhuo Chen, Matthew Czuba, Blake Lehman and Harold Torrence |
"Auxiliary constructions in Xitsonga revisited" | "A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Plural Marking in Nigerian Pidgin" | "Left-sided vs. right-sided phonology of labial-velars" | "The Inventory of Polar Question Types in Dschang" | ||
9:30-10:30 | 16:30-17:30 | BREAKFAST/LUNCH | |||
10:30-11:30 | 17:30-18:30 | Plenary session: Pius Akumbu "A community approach to language documentation in Africa" | |||
11:30-11:45 | 18:30-18:45 | BREAK | |||
SYNTAX | PRAGMATICS/FOCUS | PHONETICS/PHONOLOGY | SYNTAX/SEMANTICS | ||
Session chair: Taofeeq Adebayo | Session chair: Jenneke van der Wal | Session chair: Samuel Akinbo | Session chair: Galen Sibanda | ||
11:45-12:15 | 18:45-19:15 | Teresa Poeta, Hannah Gibson, Lutz Marten, Tom Jelpke, Fridah Kanana and Julius Taji | Constantine Kouankem | Samuel Akugri Asitanga, Anthony Agoswin Musah and Samuel Alhassan Issah | Boniface Kawasha |
"Morphosyntactic variation in present-day Swahili" | "Exhaustivity and á-marked constituents in Mǝ̀dʉ́mbὰ" | "Phonological variation in Kusaal: A synchronic dialectological study" | "Functions of the extension -an in Lunda" | ||
12:15-12:45 | 19:15-19:45 | Bill Dyer | Zhen Li | Avery Ozburn, Gabriel Palmieri and Madeline Glover | Okrah Oppong |
"A genealogical perspective on relative clauses in three languages of Senegal" | "Word order, subject marking and information structure in Kukuya (Bantu B77a)" | "Phonetics of ATR in Keiyo" | "Throwing more light: the components of the relative clause in Ɔkere" | ||
12:45-1:15 | 19:45-08:15 | Alexandrine Dunlap | Hannah Lippard, Justine Sikuku, Crisófia Langa da Câmara, Madelyn Colantes, Kang Franco Liu and Michael Diercks | Katrina Smith and Christopher Green | Aron Finholt |
"Sentential Negation and Agreement in Gweno" | "Emphatic Interpretations of Object Marking in Lubukusu and Cinyungwe" | "Tone alternations in Maay and the origins of its prosodic system" | "On the Semantic Contribution of Complementizers: Data from Mashi" | ||
1:15-1:45 | 08:15-08:45 | Jonathan Moodie | Elena Callegari | Julia Olivencia, Adam McCollum and James Essegbey | Alice Tremblay |
"Negation in languages of the Lotuxo sub-group of Eastern Nilotic languages" | "Closely related languages, different focus architectures" | "Vowel patterns in Dwang: A phonetic and phonological analysis" | "F(i) morpheme in Igala" |