WEDNESDAY JUNE 12 / MERCREDI 12 JUIN
WS1
WORKSHOPS / ATELIERS
NASAL NOUN CLASS PREFIXES IN BANTU
Room: 3.05
Convenors: Gudrun MIEHE and Larry HYMAN
14:00
Larry HYMAN
More reflections on the nasal classes in Bantu.
14:30
Jesse LOVEGREN & Jeff GOOD
Remarks on the nasal classes in Mungbam and Naki.
15:00
John WATTERS
Nasal noun class prefixes in Bantu: Considerations from Bantoid and
Cross-River languages.
15:30
PAUSE
16:00
Valentin VYDRIN
Mande evidence for nasal class prefixes.
16:30
Konstantin POZDNIAKOV
Les classes nominales à nasales en proto-bantu dans le contexte de Niger-Congo.
17:00
Gudrun MIEHE
Prefix nasals in Benue-Congo and Kwa (1991) and Gur (2012).
17:30
DISCUSSION
WS2
The Construal of Tense and Aspect in Bantu
Convenors: Axel FLEISCH and Robert BOTNE
Room: 3.08
14:00
Axel FLEISCH
Introduction
14:30
Ibirahim NJOYA
Toward an understanding of TAM in Makaa verbal constructions.
15:00
Nancy KULA
Can't express '3 days ago' anymore! Loss of P3 in Bemba.
15:30
PAUSE
16:00
Silvester SIMANGO
Persistence and remoteness in Bantu tense.
16:30
Frank SEIDEL
Temporal domains, temporal dimensionality, and narrative management
in Yeyi and Nalu.
17:00
Robert BOTNE
Remarks on papers
17:40
GENERAL DISCUSSION
WS3
New interdisciplinary perspectives on Bantu expansion
Convenors: Rebecca GROLLEMUND & Jean-Marie HOMBERT
Room: Auditorium
10:00
Rebecca GROLLEMUND & Jean-Marie HOMBERT
Introduction
10:20
Rebecca GROLLEMUND, Andrew MEADE,
Simon BRANFORD & Mark PAGEL
New Bayesian Bantu phylogeny.
10:50
Søren WICHMANN & Rebecca GROLLEMUND
Tracking the Bantu migrations in time and place.
11:20
PAUSE
11:40
Thomas CURRIE, Andrew MEADE,
Myrtille GUILLON & Ruth MACE
12:10
Bernard CLIST, Koen BOSTOEN, Charles DOUMENGE, Impact of Late Holocene palaeoclimatic changes on
Jean-Marie HOMBERT, Rebecca GROLLEMUND,
the Bantu expansion: A multidisciplinary view.
Joseph KONI MULUWA & Jean MALEY
12:40
Thembi RUSSELL, Fabio SILVA & James STEELE
Cultural phylogeography of the Bantu expansion.
Modelling Bantu dispersals: using spatial simulations
to interpret a new radiocarbon database of early
agricultural settlement in sub-Saharan Africa.
LUNCH/DÉJEUNER
13:10
14:30
Lluis QUINTANA-MURCI & Etienne PATIN
15:00
Pither MEDJO MVE
15:30
Genomes of western and eastern Pygmies reveal
early admixture with expanding Bantus.
Remarques sur l'introduction du ‘lexique spécialisé’ dans
quelques langues chasseurs-cueilleurs du domaine bantu.
PAUSE
16:00
Rozenn GUÉROIS & Gérard PHILIPPSON
The origin and genetic affiliation of P30 languages.
16:30
Karsten LEGÈRE
Folk taxonomic categories and noun class allocation.
17:00
DISCUSSION & CONCLUSION
WS4
The Influence of Language Contact on Bantu Prosodic Systems
Room: 3.05
Convenors: Laura J DOWNING & Maarten MOUS
10:00
Rozenn GUÉROIS & Gérard PHILIPPSON
Lexical and grammatical tone interactions in
Cuwabo (P34)
10:40
Lotta AUNIO
Tumaré Abiikwabé: Exchange of wisdom and
language between the Ikoma and the Datooga
11:20
Maarten MOUS & Laura DOWNING
The study of tone and accent in language contact.
12:00
LUNCH/DÉJEUNER
THURSDAY JUNE 13 / JEUDI 13 JUIN
09:00
09:15
Opening / Ouverture
Room: Auditorium
CONCLUSIONS OF WS3 - PRESENTATION OF REFLEX
Plenary session / session plénière
Room: Auditorium
Syntax (preverbal domain)
10:00
Segmental phonology (Western Bantu)
Chair: Fatima HAMLAOUI Room: 3.08
Room: 3.05
Chair: Pierre ONDO MEBIAME
Jasper DE KIND, Gilles-Maurice DE SCHRYVER
& Koen BOSTOEN
Georges Martial EMBANGA ABOROBONGUI
Emmanuel-Moselly MAKASSO
& Fatima HAMLAOUI
Jean-Pierre DONZO BUNZA & Koen BOSTOEN
Preverbal focus strategies in Kikongo: a preliminary Les processus vocaliques en ɛmbɔsí (C25) : dialecte de
mbondzi.
typology.
10:30
11:00
Les consonnes implosives dans les langues bantu de
Bàsàa object left-dislocation, topicalization and the l'entre Congo-Ubangi: Résultat d'une évolution ou de
syntax-phonology mapping of intonation phrases.
contact avec les langues oubanguiennes voisines ?
PAUSE
Phonology
Syntax (GRAMMATICAL RELATIONS & TEXT GRAMMAR)
11:30
Chair: Cédric PATIN
Chair: Jenneke VAN DER WAL Room: 3.08
Room: 3.05
Alexander ZHELTOV
Оbject indexation in Bantu: the competition of
parameters (the case of Swahili and Kinyarwanda).
Toni COOK
Non-deletion of penultimate vowels and reduplication
in Zulu.
12:00
David IORIO
Eva-Marie STRÖM
Subject marking in Bembe.
Vowels under pressure - spirants again?
12:30
Steve NICOLLE
Gélase NIMBONA
Tons lexicaux et tons intonatifs en frontière intonative
en kirundi : analyse de parole en situation de narration.
LUNCH/DÉJEUNER
Participant reference in Eastern Bantu narrative texts.
13:00
Verbal morphology
Phonology (tone)
Chair: Eva-Marie STRÖM
Chair: Guillaume SEGERER Room: 3.08
Room: 3.05
Irina MONICH
14:30
Kyle JERRO
The causative-instrumental syncretism in Kinyarwanda.
Tonal processes in the Setswana verb.
15:00
Sebastian DOM & Koen BOSTOEN
Vera WILHELMSEN
15:30
Amani LUSEKELO
Andrei ANGHELESCU
Reciprocal/antipassive polysemy in Cilubà (Bantu, L31a). Upstep in Mbugwe (F34).
Semantic classification of the Bantu verbs and
tense/aspect selections: The case of lexical verbal
semantics in Kiswahili.
Morpho-phonology and metrical structure in Nata.
PAUSE
16:00
Nominal morphology
Room: 3.05
16:30
17:00
Chair: Larry HYMAN
Lotta Aunio & Malin Petzell
The impact of sociolinguistic factors on the usage
of the pre-prefix in some G-languages.
Claire HALPERT
Nominal licensing and nominal morphology:
a Zulu case study.
EVENING - 20H30
Syntax
Room: 3.08
Chair: Odette AMBOUROUE
Heidrun KRÖGER
Demonstratives in Mozambican Ngoni.
Yolande NZANG BIE & Pierre ONDO MEBIAME
La transitivité en atsi, un dialecte du fang parlé au
Gabon.
CAFÉ SCHADEBERG
Mojito sur Scène - Pont de l'Archevêché - 75005 Paris
FRIDAY JUNE 14 / VENDREDI 14 JUIN
09:15
Plenary session / session plénière
Room: 3.05
10:00
10:30
11:00
WORKSHOP CONCLUSIONS
Room: Auditorium
Syntax
Language contact & phonology
Chair: Denis CREISSELS Room: 3.08
Chair: Jacky MANIACKY
Kristina RIEDEL & Mark DE VOS
Birgit RICQUIER & Odette AMBOUROUE
Swahili coordinated infinitives.
Congo River Crossroads Cuisine: A Blend of Western
and Eastern Words.
Peter EDELSTEN, Chiku LIJONGWA
& Lutz MARTEN
Rozenn GUÉROIS & Charles KISSEBERTH
Information structure constraints on Swahili
word-order: A Dynamic Syntax analysis.
PAUSE
Computer linguistics and pragmatics
TAM
Room: 3.05
Tone in two Elomwe dialects in Zambezia Province
(Mozambique).
Chair: Malin PETZELL Room: 3.08
Chair: Gilles-Maurice DE SCHRYVER
11:30
Robert BOTNE
Gertrud FAAẞ & Elsabé TALJARD
12:00
Nadine BORCHARDT
Martine ADDA-DECKER, Georges-M. EMBANGA
ABOROBONGUI, Lori LAMEL & Annie RIALLAND
Resultatives, remoteness, and innovation in some
Bantu T/A systems.
Tense in Gyeli.
12:30
14:30
Embosi: automatic alignment with segments and words
& phonological mining.
Helen EATON
A comparison of narrative verb forms in Bena,
Nyakyusa, Malila and Nyiha.
13:00
Plenary session / session
Automatic detection of copulatives in Northern Sotho
corpora.
Oliver STEGEN
Functions of rhetorical questions in Rangi (F33).
LUNCH/DÉJEUNER
5 minutes oral POSTER PRESENTATIONS
plénière
PRÉSENTATION DES POSTERS (5 mins par poster)
Room: Auditorium
Denis CREISSELS - High tone spreading in four Sotho-Tswana varieties.
Guy Roger Cyriac GOMBÉ APONDZA - Modifications des tons en akwa.
Guy Noël KOUARATA - Nasalisation des voyelles dans la langue mbochi C25.
Guy Noël KOUARATA & Pierre Yvon Ndongo Ibara - Typologie de la réduplication dans des langues congolaises.
Guy N'DOULI - L'applicatif en kikongo véhiculaire (H10A) et en civili (H12) - constructions, fonctions discursives et variation diatopique.
Emmanuel NGUE UM -Noun class frequency across text genres in Bakola. What implication from a cultural linguistics point of view?
Michaël KASOMBO - À la recherche des voyelles finales perdues en ruwund L53.
Francine MOGUO: Arguments for a desemanticization of verbs into future tense markers in some Bantu languages.
Jacky MANIACKY & Michela ARAUJO RIBEIRO - Anatomie et physiologie humaine dans les langues bantu : une réflexion sémantique.
Bonnie HENSON - Informational prominence in Kol.
Merijn DE DREU & Leston BUELL - Cross-linguistic uniformity in neutral agreement phenomena: evidence from Indo-European and Zulu.
Jenneke VAN DER WAL - Parameterising Case: other evidence from Bantu.
Julius TAJI - Noun phrase structure in Shimwela.
Ingeborg KOSCH - Bantu grammatical description from an insider's point of view.
Thabo DITSELE - Sepitori: A Pretoria koine language that could help revive interest in two Bantu languages in South Africa.
16:00
Poster session / session posters
Rooms: 3.01, 3.02, 3.03, 3.11
17:30
to
18:15
Plenary session / session plénière
Room: Auditorium
Lutz MARTEN & Jenneke VAN DER WAL
A typology of Bantu subject inversion.
SATURDAY JUNE 15 / SAMEDI 15 JUIN
Historical linguistics (nasals)
Prosodic DOMAINs
Room: 3.05
10:00
10:30
Chair: Laura DOWNING Room: 3.08
Seunghun LEE & Elisabeth SELKIRK
Maud DEVOS
Domain-sensitivity in High Tone Spreading in two
Xitsonga dialects.
Lost, retained or reintroduced: nasals in class 9 & 10
Shangaci nouns.
Lee BICKMORE & Nancy KULA
Koen BOSTOEN, Gilles-Maurice DE SCHRYVER
& Jasper DE KIND
Prosodic phrasing in Copperbelt Bemba.
Nasal prefix evolution in Kikongo between the 17th and
20th century.
11:00
PAUSE
Syntax and morphology
12:00
12:30
Historical linguistics
Chair: Nancy KULA Room: 3.08
Room: 3.05
11:30
Chair: T.B.A
Chair: Dmitry IDIATOV
Naledi KGOLO & Sonja EISENBEISS
Koen BOSTOEN, Birgit RICQUIER
Marleen VAN DE VATE, Laura DOWNING &
Tonjes VEENSTRA
Lolke VAN DER VEEN & Soraya MOKRANI
& Gilles-Maurice DE SCHRYVER
The mental representation of Setswana derived
nouns: An experimental investigation of class 1 and Power Talk: from royal Kongo words to royal Kongo
origins.
9 nominalisations.
On embedded questions in Tumbuka.
BantU, bantI, bantA : les voyelles finales dans les
langues du groupe kota-kele (B20).
Kathleen O’CONNOR & Cédric PATIN
Tim ROTH
Nominal apposition in Shingazidja.
The closest relatives of Bende-Tongwe (F10).
13:00
LUNCH/DÉJEUNER
Syntax
Room: 3.05
Historical linguistics & phonetics
Chair: Kristina RIEDEL Room: 3.08
Chair: Maud DEVOS
Jochen ZELLER
Lolke VAN DER VEEN & Marion CHEUCLE
Asymmetries and locality in Zulu right dislocation
constructions.
Reconstructing Proto-A80: Lexical reconstructions,
processes, signs of contact.
Vicki CARSTENS
Jeffrey WILLS
Negation and cartography in Tiriki.
«Strong Y-» as an isogloss for Southern Bantu.
15:30
Claire HALPERT & Jochen ZELLER
Miles LEITCH
16:00
Dislocation via movement in Zulu: evidence from
raising-to-object.
Kirundi palatal glide strengthening: An acoustic study.
14:30
15:00
20:00 - EVENING
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