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THURSDAY, March 15th |
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8:00 - 8:40 |
Registration Desk open for ACAL |
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8:40 - 9:00 |
LBC 203 Stibbs Formal Opening and Welcoming Speeches: University Officials |
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9:00 - 9:45 |
LBC 203 Stibbs Plenary Session (1) Chair: Nathalie Dajko Salikoko Mufwene What African Linguistics Can Contribute to Evolutionary Linguistics |
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9:45 - 10:00 |
Break Stibbs Breakout Room |
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Race Conference Room |
Rechler Conference Room |
Stibbs Conference Room |
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Syntax Interfaces Chair Eyamba Bokamba |
Phonology Interfaces Chair Douglas Pulleyblank |
Loanwords/ code-switching Chair Darcie Blainey |
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10:00 – 12:30 |
10:00 am (2) Mark Baker & Ken Safir Categories of clausal constituents in Lubukusu
10:30 am (3) R. Mata Genitive constructions in Gitonga-Inhambane
11:00 am (4) Harold Torrence A’- Extractions in Seereer
11:30 am (5) Doris Payne & Shahar Shirtz Heads in Maa NPs
12:00 pm (6) Jason Kandybowicz Ways of emphatic scope-taking: Evidence from Nupe emphatic assertion |
10:00 am (7) Beniam Cherinet Morphophonemics of the causative in Harari
10:30 am (8) Mary Paster & Martha Johnson Aspects of Manyika verbal tonology
11:00 am (9) Lee Bickmore Lala and Swaka and Biisa, Oh my!: Tone patterns in zone M.50
11:30 am (10) Laura McPherson Patterns and predictability in Tommo So noun-verb pairs
12:00 pm (11) Deo Ngonyani Surrogate imperatives in Bantu Languages with Postverbal Negative Clitic
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10:00am (12) Fiona McLaughlin Consonant mutation and loanword behavior in Pulaar: Featural morphemes at the phonology-morphology interface
10:30 am (13) Christopher Green A foot-based account of French loanword adaptation into Banbara
11:00 am (14) Al-Hassan Issahaku Repair strategies in Dagbani loanwords adaptation
11:30 am (15) Ali Abdoulhamid & Wildat Andjilane Borrowings of French in the Comorian language
12:00 pm (16) Millicent Quarcoo Copula verbs and multi-word verbs in Twi/ English code-switching |
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12:30 -1:30p |
Lunch (not provided), can be purchased at the LBC Food Court
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1:30- 2:15 |
Stibbs Conference RoomPlenary Session (17) Chair: Olasope Oyelaran Oladele Awobuluyi Language Policies in Africa |
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Race Conference Room |
Rechler Conference Room |
Stibbs Conference Room |
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Orthography & Lexicography Chair Judith Maxwell |
Phonetic/ Phonology Chair Akinbiyi Akinlabi |
Syntax Interfaces Chair John DePriest |
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2:15- 3:45 |
2:15 pm (18) Melinda Nelson-Hurst Concepts of inheritance in Ancient Egypt: A lexicographical examination
2:45 pm (19) Yvonne Ollennu A morphosyntactic analysis of text messaging in the university community
3:15 pm (20) Karsten Legère Swahili and English in Dar es Salaam: Bill boards, shop signs and homepages |
2:15 pm (21) Melanie Pangilinan &Seunghun Lee An acoustic comparison of palatal fricatives and whistled fricatives in Xitsonga
2:45 pm (22) Radu Craioveanu Phonetic vs. Phonological Rounding in Tigrinya
3:15 pm (23) Frank Kügler & Susanne Genzel On the interaction of downdrift and focus – register lowering in Akan
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2:15 pm (24) Deborah Morton Imperfective Intricacies: The distribution of the two imperfective markers in Gisida Anii
2:45 pm (25) Claire Halpert Optional agreement: New facts about Zulu subjects
3:15 pm (26) Michelle Johnson Moody negation -Interactions of aspect, modality and negation in Lusoga |
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3:45 - 4:00p |
Break Stibbs Breakout Room |
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Race Conference Room |
Rechler Conference Room |
Stibbs Conference Room |
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Tonology Interfaces Chair Larry Hyman |
Syntax Interfaces Chair Seunghun Lee |
Morphology ChairShayra-Helena Burgos Garcia |
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4:00- 5:30p |
4:00 pm (27) Emmanuel-Moselly Makasso Morphology and tonology of vocatives in Basaa
4:30 pm (28) Lee Bickmore & Nancy Kula Ternary spreading and the OCP in Copperbelt Bemba
5:00 pm (29) Timothy Mathes An Investigation of Masalit tone
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4:00 pm (30) Ellen Guigelaar The syntax/phonological interface in Three Bantu languages
4:30 pm (31) Charles Marfo Rules in the focus and topic constructions in Akan and the phonology-syntax interface
5:00 pm (32) Jodi Reich, Philip Thuma & Elena Grigorenko Benefactive-theme order in the acquisition of Bantu double object applicatives
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4:00 pm (33) Galen Sibanda A note on Sub-Minimal -C- Root verb forms in Bantu with special reference to Ndebele
4:30 pm (34) Clare Sandy Verb extensions in Abo (Bantu A42)
5:00 pm (35) Joash Johannes The pre-prefix in Nata: An interface account |
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5:30 -6:00 |
Stibbs Conference Room Plenary Session (36) Chair: Douglas Pulleyblank Akinbiyi Akinlabi African Linguistics School |
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6:00 - 7:00 |
Reception Room TBA |
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Friday, March 16th |
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8:30 - 10:15 |
Kendall Cram Lecture Hall Plenary Session Chair:Lee Bickmore Laura Downing Issues in the Phonology-Syntax Interface in African Languages (37)
Larry Hyman Issues in the Phonology-Morphology Interface in African Languages (38)
Douglas Pulleyblank Issues in the Phonology-Phonetics Interface in African Languages (39) |
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10:15 10:30 |
Break LBC 219-Cram Lounge/Pre-Function Area |
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Kendall Cram Lecture Hall |
Rechler Conference Room |
Stibbs Conference Room |
Race Conference Room |
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Syntax Interfaces Chair Rose-Marie Dechaine |
Morphology Interfaces Chair Akinbiyi Akinlabi |
Sociolinguistics Chair Zachary Hebert |
Semantics Chair TianqiRobyn Yang |
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10:30- 12:00 |
10:30 am (40) Roslyn Burns Abo optional anti-agreement
11:00 am (41) Mark Baker & Justin Sikuku On some asymmetries in a symmetrical object language
11:30 pm (42) Vicki Carstens Expletive constructions in Xhosa
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10:30 am (43) Michelle Morrison Imbrication in Bena
11:00 am (44) Fusheini Abdul-Rahman Elision in Dagbani
11:30 pm (45) Boniface Kawasha Reanalysis of grammatical morphemes and loss of verbal affixes in Lunda |
10:30 am (46) Cecile B. Vigouroux Language and economy: The spread of Lingala in the Congolese diaspora in Cape Town
11:00 am (47) Leonard Muaka Discovering linguistic indirectness in Kenya's political discourse
11:30 pm (48) Abderrahman Zouhir Language situation and conflict in Morocco |
10:30 am (49)
11:00 am (50) Scott Grimm & Mark Ali Countability in Dagaare
11:30 pm (51) Jefferson Barlew Point of view in Mushunguli locatives
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12:00 1:30 |
ACAL Business Meeting/ Lunch Break Kendall Cram Lecture Hall |
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1:30 – 2:45 |
Kendall Cram Lecture HallPlenary Session Chair:James Essegbey Mark Dingemanse Ideophones at the Intersection of Theory and Methods in African Linguistics (52)
Victoria Nyst Sign Languages and Deaf Communities in Africa (53) |
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Race Conference Rom |
Rechler Conference Room |
Stibbs Conference Room |
Kendall Cram Lecture Hall |
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Sign Language/ Gesture Chair Victoria Nyst |
Syntax Interfaces Chair Juvenal Ndayiragije |
Literature Chair Shane Lief |
Sociolinguistics Chair Joshua Rogers |
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2:45 pm (54) Olanike Orie From conventionalized gesture to sign language: The case of Yoruba Sign Language
3:15 pm (55) Philemon Akach From policies and laws to the implementation of sign language in deaf education: what went wrong?
3:45 pm (56) Karen Wu The role of gesture in language: Investigating how everyday objects are depicted in chiTonga co-speech gesture
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2:45 pm (57) Denis Paperno A tono-syntactic rule in Beng
3:15 pm (58) Kasangati Kinyalolo Focus without SpecFocP: The Case of Bantu
3:45 pm (59) Regina O. Caesar The participle form of causative verbs in Dangme
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2:45 pm (60) Della Goavec Writing orality in the seven solitudes of Lorsa Lopez-Sony Labou Tansi
3:15 pm (61) Rose Masubelele Inferences of social change discerned in Sibiya’s novel- Bengithi Lizokana
3:45 pm (62) Victor Ariole Translating Chimamanda Adichie in French: Problems in isolating Igbo substratum elements |
2:45 pm (63) Mungai Mutonya Kisetla: Maintaining a truncated kiSwahili variety in colonial Kenya
3:15 pm (64) Tolulope Odebunmi Code-switching in Yoruba films: Interfaces of competence and performance
3:45 pm (65) Bienvenu Sene Mongaba The Lingala spoken by Kinshasa chemistry teachers and its role in the elaboration of specialized terms and discourse
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4:15 - 4:30 |
Break Stibbs Breakout Room |
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Race Conference Room |
Rechler Conference Room |
Stibbs Conference Room |
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Database/ Revitalization Chair Doris Payne |
Syntax Interfaces Chair Peter Jenks |
Sociolinguistics Interfaces Chair James Essegbey |
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4:30 pm (66) Yiwola Awoyale Yoruba global database
5:15 pm (67) Tucker Childs Video documenting the revitalization of a moribund but still lively South Atlantic language
6:00 pm (68) Philip Rudd Sheng Speakers: Facing the Insurmountable in Kenya
6:30 pm (69) Mokaya Bosire Sheng and Netspeak: unlikely allies in language change |
4:30 pm (70) Ken Safir & Justine Sikuku Complex anaphora in Lubukusu: Evidence for inside and outside voice
5:00 pm (71) Noa Nishimoto Verbal categories in the Tandroy dialect of Malagasy—an examination of the Malagasy passive/ active construction
5:30 pm (71) Alhassan Issah The structure of constituent questions in Dagbani
6:00 pm (72) Hayat Ferzouz The reflexive constructions in Twi and their other functions
6:30 pm (73) Harold Torrence & Jason Kandybowicz Comparative Tano interrogative syntax: Typological and genetic implications
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4:30 pm (74) Eyovi Njwe The crux of the matter, back to base, a fight against lingua franca pidgins amongst Cameroonian university students
5:00 pm (75) James Ababila Sex differential use of Farefari objectives among undergraduate students of the University of Education
5:30 pm (76) Ettien Koffi Planning multiple languages on a shoestring budget for profit
6:00 pm (77) Marion Cheucle Comparative approach in language description: The case of Bekwel
6:30 pm (78) Joana Antwi-Danso Modal adverb and predicative modal adjectives in Akan |
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7:00 10:00 |
Banquet Kendall Cram Lecture Hall |
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Saturday, March 17th |
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8:30 - 10:15 |
Kendall Cram Lecture Hall Plenary Sessions Chair: Yiwola Awoyale Rose-Marie Dechaine What "spell-out" reveals: How Niger-Congo prosodification constrains the syntax/semantics interface (79)
Juvenal Ndayiragije Raising out of Bantu control (80)
Olasope Oyelaran & Oladiipo Ajiboye The challenge of syntactic categories in African languages (81) |
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10:15- 10:30 |
Break |
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Race Conference Room |
Rechler Conference Room |
Stibbs Conference Room |
Kendall Cram Lecture Hall |
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Syntax Chair Oladele Awobuluyi |
Semantics Chair Shane Lief |
Sociolinguistics Chair Salikoko Mufwene |
Phonology Interfaces Chair Robin Aronow |
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10:30 am (82) Larry Hyman, Peter Jenks & Emmanuel-Mosselly Makasso Adjectives as nominal heads in Basaá
11:00 am (83) Daniel Finer Deriving Turkana word order: Head movement and topicality
11:30 am (84) Ruth Kramer No competition: The morphosyntax of plurality in Amharic
12:00 pm (85) Lindsey Quinn-Wriedt L2 Acquisition of Swahili object marking: Interactions at the syntax-discourse interface |
10:30 am (86) Rebecca Cover The semantics of pluractionality in Badiaranke
11:00 am (87) Toni Cook How diachronic processes are reflected in Zulu reduplication
11:30 am (88) Carmela Toews Stativity in Siamou
12:00 pm (89) Gregory Finley The semantic alignment of modal verbs in Abo
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10:30 am (90) Charles Mann Attitudes towards Anglo-Nigerian Pidgin in urban, Northern Nigeria: The Ethnicity variable
11:00 am (91) Tristan Purvis Communicative Strategies in Christian and Muslim Sermons in Dagbani
11:30 am (92) Jane Mitsch Perceptual dialectology of Wolof in Senegal and the Gambia
12:00pm (93) Daniela Waldburger Comorien-Swahili in the diaspora: Language shift, contact phenomena and construction of identity in a plurilingual community |
10:30 pm (94) Jonathan Anderson Rhythmic patterns of prominence in Akan
11:00 pm (95) Sharon Rose & Younah Chung Duration and pitch in Moro polar questions
11:30 pm (96) Susanne Genzel & Frank Kügler The prosodic realization of Yes-No questions in Akan
12:00 pm (97) Charlotte Lomotey Prosodic features that cue turn-taking in Akan conversations |
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12:30 1:30 |
Lunch (not provided) |
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Race Conference Room |
Rechler Conference Room |
Stibbs Conference Room |
Kendall Cram Lecture Hall |
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Phonology Interfaces Chair Kat Bell |
Semantics/ Syntax Chair Mark Dingemanse |
Typology Interfaces Chair Laura Downing |
Morphology/ Syntax Chair Rose-Marie Dechaine |
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1:30- 3:00 |
1:30 pm (98) Abbie Hantgan & Stuart Davis The abstract nature of the Bondu vowel system: Evidence from (ATR) harmony
2:00 pm (99) Ross Godfrey A reappraisal of Vowel Length in Tigrinya
2:30 pm (100) Brian Cansler Bidirectional nasal harmony in Toro Tegu
3:00 pm (101) Maxwell Kadenge Hiatus resolution in Nambya and Zezuru: A comparative analysis
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1:30 pm (102) Seth Ofori Relevance, scope and 'past' and anterior encoding in Nzema
2:00 pm (103) Morakinyo Ogunmodimu On time, tense and aspect in Ahan
2:30 pm (104) James Essegbey Touch ideophones in Tutrugbu
3:00 pm (105) Nadine Borchardt Variability in color naming in some Bantu A languages
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1:30 pm (106) Lisa Zsiga & One Boyer Phonological devoicing and phonetic voicing in Setswana
2:00 pm (107) Francis Moto A critical review of language endangerment and linguistic revival
2:30 pm (108) Yiwola Awoyale When underlying tones and vowels move
3:00 pm (109) Zachary Hebert Word minimality in Yoruba revisited!
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1:30 pm (110) Shiferaw Assefa Stem formation in Amharic: An old problem with new approach
2:00 pm (111) George Akanlig-Pare Tone in serial verb constructions in Buli
2:30 pm (112) Ogbonna Anyanwu Ibibio causative and anti-causative verb alternations
3:00 pm (113) Kristina Riedel "Free" word order in Bantu: Descriptive and theoretical issues
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Tulane University, ACAL 43 Org. Committee c/o Karen Wu, 101 Dinwiddie Hall, New Orleans, LA 70118 43rdACAL@gmail.com