International conference on
Bantu Grammar: Description and Theory
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
20 – 22 April 2006
Supported by the British Academy
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Provisional Programme
A pdf file of the programme is available here.
Wed 19 April 2006, 5-7, Pre-Registration Room G60
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Thurs 20 April 2006 |
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8.30 |
Registration Room G60 |
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Khalili Lecture Theatre, Chair: Nancy Kula |
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9.00 |
Opening remarks |
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9.10 |
Opening address Colin Bundy, Director and Principle, SOAS |
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9.30 |
The structure of the Bantu noun phrase Josephat M. Rugemalira |
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10.00 |
Tone ‘anticipation’ in Bantu languages Gérard Philippson |
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10.30 |
ASILI Software: Dictionaries and comparative Bantu research T. J. Hinnebusch and Carolyn Vieira-Martinez |
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11.00 TEA, Room G60 |
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Khalili Lecture Theatre. Chair: Katherine Demuth |
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11.30 |
Issues in phrasing in Northern Sotho Sabine Zerbian |
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12.00 |
Tone, morphology and the syntax of the Ikalanga DP Rose Letsholo |
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12.30 |
The prosody and syntax of Zulu relative clauses Lisa Cheng and Laura Downing |
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13.00 |
Babole relative clause and DP syntax Myles Leitch |
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13.30 LUNCH |
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Parallel Session A, Khalili Lecture Theatre, Chair: Thilo Schadeberg |
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14.30 |
Morphology of plant names in the Mpiemo language Christina Thornell |
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15.00 |
Noun classes and names of wild plants in Bantu languages Karsten Legère |
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15.30 |
Basaa gender in typological perspective Bertrade Ngo-Ngijol Banoum |
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Parallel Session B, Room L67, Chair: Anna McCormack |
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14.30 |
Encoding of ditransitive verb complements in Swati Udo Klein |
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15.00 |
The Makhuwa disjoint form and an empty Immediate After Verb position Jenneke van der Wal |
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15.30 |
On the syntactic relationship of subjects and predicates in SiSwati Nhlanhla Thwala |
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16.00 TEA, Room G60 |
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Khalili Lecture Theatre, Chair: Lutz Marten |
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16.20 |
From contrastive vowel length to penultimate lengthening in Xangaci? Maud Devos |
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16.50 |
Invited Speaker: Al Mtenje On Optimality Theory and vowel sequences in Bantu languages |
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17.40 CLOSE and Wine Reception supported by Taylor and Francis, Khalili Lecture Theatre Foyer |
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Fri 21 April 2006 |
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Parallel Session A, Khalili Lecture Theatre, Chair: Laura Downing |
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9.00 |
Stem tone melodies in Chilungu Lee Bickmore |
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9.30 |
Tonal alternations in Bemba Nancy Kula |
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10.00 |
The exponence of TAM in Bakweri Michael Marlo and David Odden |
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Parallel Session B, Room L67, Chair: Chege Githiora |
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9.00 |
Rangi and the Tanzanian Rift Valley area Margaret Dunham |
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9.30 |
Lexical density in oral versus written Rangi narratives Oliver Stegen |
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10.00 |
Patterns of modality in political speeches of Nyerere in Swahili Daniela Waldburger |
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10.30 TEA, Room G60 |
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Khalili Lecture Theatre, Chair: Al Mtenje |
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10.50 |
Bantu verb inflections, slot systems, and Proto-Bantu Jouni Maho |
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11.20 |
Variables of morpho-syntactic variation in Bantu Lutz Marten, Nancy Kula and Nhlanhla Thwala |
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11.50 |
On the organization of tense systems in Bantu Robert Botne |
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12.20 |
Steps in grammatical turnover/shift: The codeswitching of Xhosa-English bilinguals Carol Myers-Scotton and Janice L. Jake |
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12.50 LUNCH |
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Khalili Lecture Theatre, Chair: Phil Jaggar |
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14.10 |
Invited Speaker: Thilo Schadeberg Expressing comparison in Swahili: description and typology |
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15.00 |
Semantics classification and Chichewa derived nouns Thokozani Kunkeyani |
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15.30 |
Semantic properties and grammatical patterns of verbs in Nguni Axel Fleisch |
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16.00 TEA, Room G60 |
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Khalili Lecture Theatre, Chair: Lisa Cheng |
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16.20 |
Metarepresentational demonstratives in Digo Steve Nicolle |
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16.50 |
Demonstrative noun orders and focus in Bantu Kristina Riedel |
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17.20 |
If we see Focus, you go left and I go right! Enoch Oladé Aboh |
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17.50 |
Focus marking in Otjiherero Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig |
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18.20 CLOSE |
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19.30 Conference Dinner, Hason Raja, 84 Southampton Row, London WC1B 4BB |
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Sat 22 April 2006 |
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Khalili Lecture Theatre, Chair: Nhlanhla Thwala |
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9.00 |
Invited Speaker: Katherine Demuth Licensing null noun class prefixes in Sesotho |
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9.50 |
Two Merge positions for Bantu locative applicatives Leston Buell |
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10.20 |
Gĩkũyũ complex verb morphology Chege Githiora |
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10.50 TEA (self-organised) |
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Khalili Lecture Theatre, Special Session on the Synchrony and Diachrony of the Bantu Verb, organised by Larry Hyman and Derek Nurse |
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11.10 |
Did the Proto-Bantu verb have an analytic or a synthetic structure? Derek Nurse |
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12.00 |
Complex verb morphology in Kulango Stefan Elders |
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12.30 |
The Bantu-like patterns of the Bijogo verbs Guillaume Segerer |
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13.00 LUNCH |
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14.10 |
The Bantu verbal prefixes and S-Aux-O-V order in Benue-Congo Jeff Good and Tom Güldemann |
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14.40 |
Reconstructing the Proto-Bantu verbal unit: Internal evidence Larry Hyman |
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15.20 |
Discussion |
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15.40 CLOSE |
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