Program

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Thursday April 7

PT (UTC-7) Local Time Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Session 4
7:00-7:30 10:00-10:30 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 10:30-11:00 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 11:00-11:30 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 11:30-12:00 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 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 BREAKFAST/LUNCH
10:30-11:30 13:30-14:30 Plenary session: Pius Akumbu "A community approach to language documentation in Africa"
11:30-11:45 14:00-14:15 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 14:15-14:45 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 14:45-15:15 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 15:15-15:45 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 16:15-16:45 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"

Friday April 8

PT Local Time Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Session 4
7:00-8:00 Plenary session: Fridah Kanana Erastus
"The role of metaphor in the recontextualization of global to local in African youth language (practices)"
8:00-8:15 BREAK
SYNTAX HISTORICAL PHONOLOGY MORPHO-SYNTAX
Session chair: Vicki Carstens Session chair: Rebecca Grollemund Session chair: Laura Downing Session chair: Hannah Gibson
8:15-8:45 11:15-11:45 Matthew Czuba Iris Kruijsdijk Regina Agyapong Manu and Cecilia Tomekyin Joost Zwarts
"A Preliminary Analysis of Dschang Clausal Structure: The View from Tense, Aspect and Negation" "The position of Asá and Qwadza within Cushitic" "The Morphotone of Akyem Reincarnate Names" "Reflexive/reciprocal marking in Markweeta"
8:45-9:15 Kang Liu and Michael Diercks Liliane Hodieb Tajudeen Mamadou and Mariapaola D'Imperio Sofiya Ros and Giada Palmieri
"(A)symmetry in Tiriki Double Object Constructions" "Focus in Ring Grassfields Bantu languages: variation, grammaticalization and development" "Modeling Global and Local Tone-Intonation Interactions in Ede Chaabe: A Production and Perception Study" "Reciprocal marking in Wolof"
9:15-9:45 Chikelu Ihunanya Ezenwafor-Afuecheta Michael Ahland Laura McPherson and Michael Obiri-Yeboah Jonathan Choti
"The Syntax of Relative Clause Construction in Etulo" "The Historical-Morphosyntactic Development of the Omotic-Mao Verb" "Akan tone encoding across surrogate modalities" "Ordering verbal suffixes in Ekegusii"
9:45-10:30 BREAKFAST/LUNCH
10:30-11:30 Plenary session: James Essegbey "Where do we draw the line on serial verb constructions?"
11:30-11:45 BREAK
SYNTAX HISTORICAL MORPHO-PHONOLOGY SEMANTICS
Session chair: Emily Clem Session chair: Michael Ahland Session chair: Michael Obiri-Yeboah Session chair: Ivano Caponigro
11:45-12:15 Hazel Mitchley Rebecca Grollemund, Michael Marlo, Reza Alvi, Jabob Larsen and Chaeli Rule Tamam Youssouf Mercy Bobuafor
"Nominal agents and the thematic licensing of external arguments" "Understanding the first Bantu migrations through the study of mammal names" "The Oromo Language (Oromic) Word Boundary" "The weather caught/cooked/burnt fire”: the grammar, conceptual schemas and semantics of temperature expressions in Tafi"
12:15-12:45 Yvette Djabakie Asamoah and Richard Ayertey Lawer Elisabeth Kerr Matthew Harley and Patrick Rosendall Galen Sibanda
"The Structure of Dangme Adverbs and Adverbials" "On OV and VO at the Bantu/Bantoid borderlands" "Word break conflicts and elision in Gbari nominalizations" "The semantics of count and mass nouns in Ndebele"
12:45-1:15 Keffyalew Gebregziabher and Maia Duguine Doris Payne Katherine Russell TALK CANCELLED
"The typology of WH-interrogatives in Tigrinya" "Maa 'Epenthetic' Final Consonants" "Morpheme-specific domains of nasalization in Atchan"
1:15-1:45 Frances Blanchette and Deborah Morton Ronald Schaefer and Francis Egbokhare Mirella Blum Minjee Kwon and Seung Ah Kwak
"The Syntax of Negation in Gιsιɖa Anii" "Perfectivity Exponents in Bantu and Edoid" "Does Dinka have tripartite number marking?" "Inflectional neutralization in Maay Maay negation"

Saturday April 9

PT EST Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Session 4
7:00-8:00 Plenary session: Gertrud Schneider-Blum "On noncausal-causal alternations in Tima (Niger-Congo)"
8:00-8:15 BREAK
SYNTAX SOCIO PHONOLOGY MORPHOLOGY
Session chair: Michelle Yuan Session chair: Stella Makafui Yegblemenawo Session chair: Lee Bickmore Session chair: Farrell Ackerman
8:15-8:45 Vicki Carstens and Peter Muriungi Cecilia Agbeh Magdalena Markowska and Abdoulaye Laziz Nchare Emmanuel Okon and Ogbonna Anyanwu
"Addressee Agreement in Kiitharaka and Speech Act Projection Theory" "Examining Aspects of the New Educational Reforms in Ghana:The Case of French as a Foreign Language" "Tonal Polarity and Compound Nouns in Shupamem" "Complement and Headedness in Ibibio Nominal Compounds"
8:45-9:15 Suzana Fong Maxwell Mpotsiah Virginia Beavon-Ham Raphael Iyamu
"Pronouncing PRO in Wolof" "A sociolinguistic study of appelative expressions in an Akan concept of God (Nyame) in Christian Worship" "Prenasalization and Bafanji noun tonology" "Pluractionality in Ẹdo: A Distributed Morphology Account
9:15-9:45 Shannon Yee Akinloye Ojo Jeffrey Heath Deo Ngonyani
"A new analysis of linkers in Jimi (Cameroon)" "Language Empowerment as Panacea for Social-Cultural and Economic Development in Africa in the 21st Century" "Jenaama Bozo of Mali: Tone patterns in two geographically remote varieties" "Demonstratives in Ndendeule"
9:45-10:30 BREAKFAST/LUNCH
SYNTAX COGNITVE LINGUISTICS PHONOLOGY SYNTAX
Session chair: Keffyalew Gebregziabher Session chair: Jeffrey Heath Session chair: Laura McPherson Session chair: Harold Torrence
10:30-11:00 Penelope Daniel Isaac Adjei Forson and Stella Afi Makafui Yegblemenawo Avery Ozburn, Gianna F. Giovio Canavesi and Samuel Akinbo Fabio Bonfim Duarte and David Seth Langa
"Deriving SOVX word order in Mandinka" "Using Animal Names as Personal Names: An Ethno-pragmatic Analysis of Akan and Ewe Personal Names" "Perception of ATR in Dàgáárè" "On the post-verbal position of identificational focus in Changana"
11:00-11:30 John Gluckman, Stephanie Born, Aron Finholt, Jack Foster and Lucy Whittington Letizia Cerqueglini Laura J. Downing Haley Muth and Chiara Di Maio
"Non-verbal Predication in Kihavu (JD52)" "Encoding Spatial Alignment in Grammar: Evidence from Negev and Sinai Bedouin Arabic, Gawwada, and Hausa" "Testing typologies of consonant inventories on African languages" "The function word wəli: Post-verbal focus in Maay Maay"
11:30-12:00 Vicki Carstens Regina Oforiwah Caesar, Mohammed Yakub and Raymond Teye Akrobettoe Lee Bickmore Taofeeq Adebayo
"Preverbal subjects and labeling in Nguni" "The ethno-pragmatics of etile and yi 'head' metaphors in Nzema and Dangme" "Factors influencing the presence and realization of melodic tones in Bantu" "Second-order left periphery heads in Yoruba"
12:00-12:30 Rose Letsholo, Madelyn Colantes and Michael Diercks RESCHEDULED (from Thursday): Stella Afi Makafui Yegblemenawo, Doreen Enyonam Esi Yegblemenawo, Caroline Aku Akpene Yegblemenawo and Setor Donne Novieto RESCHEDULED (from Thursday): John Odoom and Kwasi Adomako Jason Smith
"Object marker doubling in Ikalanga" RESCHEDULED (from Thursday): "Negotiating culture, identity and language through the ‘Keshey’ verlan: the perspectives of the youth in Kumasi, Ghana" RESCHEDULED (from Thursday): "Examining the Phonological Processes Concerned When Akan Personal Names Are Anglicized" "A Rizzian approach to the left periphery of Mende"
12:30-12:45 BREAK
12:45-1:45 Business meeting