Proceedings of the 6th World Congress of African Linguistics, Cologne, 17-21 August 2009
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Beschreibung
Editors’ note
Matthias Brenzinger:
WOCAL — World Congress of African Linguistics
I. PLENARY PAPERS:
Neville Alexander:
African languages for Africa’s development
Gratien G. Atindogbé:
The challenges of documentary linguistics in the field of “Afrikanistik”
Sam Lutalo-Kiingi:
The importance of Deaf involvement in African Sign Language research
Margarida Maria Taddoni Petter:
African languages in Latin America
James G. Bennett:
Language and poverty in Africa – Do language policies help or hinder poverty reduction?
G. Tucker Childs:
How to pretend you speak a dying language when you don’t really know how to speak it – Methodological worries in documenting dying languages
Zygmunt Frajzyngier:
Coding relations between the verb and noun phrases in Afroasiatic – A sketch of typological explanations
Salikoko S. Mufwene:
What Africa can contribute to understanding language vitality, endangerment, and loss
Abdel Rahim Hamid Mugaddam:
Aspects of youth language in Khartoum
H. Ekkehard Wolff:
Sociolinguistics in the African context. History – challenges – prospects
II. HISTORICAL, COMPARATIVE AND TYPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS:
Rose-Juliet Anyanwu:
On the strategic partnership of verbs – Serial verbs in Niger-Congo languages
Koen Bostoen / Bonny Sands:
Clicks in south-western Bantu languages – Contact-induced vs. language internal lexical change
Alexander Cobbinah / Friederike Lüpke:
Not cut to fit – zero coded passives in African languages
Bruce Connell / William Bennett / Inoma Essien / Ebitare Obikudo / Akin Akinlabi / Ozo-mekuri Ndimele:
Defaka and Ijo – A reassessment of the Ijoid relationship
Oliver Kröger:
Typology put to practical use – A participatory approach to initial grammar research
Russell Norton:
Non-concatenative morphology in Dinka and Arabic – Augmentation and replacement
Helga Schröder:
Incorporated subject pronouns in word order typology
III. PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY:
Adelino Amargira:
The function of tone in the Tennet language
Herman M. Batibo:
Can tone shift be regarded as tone depression in Shisukuma?
Ibrahima A.H. Cissé / Nathalie Vallée:
Fulfulde and Bambara syllables in typological and universal perspectives – Interactions between tautosyllabic segments and the effects of consonants
Daniel Duke / Marieke Martin:
Introducing Kwasio pharyngealized vowels
Yamina El Kirat El Allame:
A diachronic and comparative analysis of spirantization in Amazigh – The case of the Beni Iznassen variety
Martial Embanga Aborobongui / Annie Rialland / Jean-Marc Beltzung:
Tones and intonation in Boundji Embosí (C25)
Richard Gravina:
Vowels, consonants and prosody in two Central Chadic languages
Osamu Hieda:
Consonantal system of Datooga (Bajuuta dialect)
Andreas Joswig:
The vowels of Majang
Heidrun Kröger:
Nasal assimilation in Mozambican Ngoni
Christiane Lauschitzky:
Nasality in Bozo Jemaana
Seunghun J. Lee:
The spreading, blocking, and optimization of H tones – Depressor consonants in Dagara
Coffi Sambiéni:
Du statut phonologique du schwa en biali, langue gur orientale, Bénin
John R. Watters:
Tone in western Ejagham (Etung) – Lexical tone on the “minimal” verb forms
IV. MORPHOLOGY, SYNTAX & SEMANTICS:
Ogbonna Anyanwu:
The Ibibio locative copular constructions
Samuel A. Atintono:
The basic locative construction in Gurene
Wolfgang Berndt:
A cognitive approach to the functions of the particle me in Joola-Banjal
Thomas Blecke:
The grammar of action nominals in Tigemaxo (Bozo)
Olivier Bondéelle:
Alternations of emotion verb-noun roots in Wolof – Analogy between verbs and nouns
Nadine Borchardt:
Agreement in Ikaan compound numerals
Ines Fiedler:
Predicate-centered focus in Gbe
Christopher R. Green:
Paradigm uniformity in Luwanga derived nouns
Roland Kießling / Britta Neumann / Doreen Schröter:
“What can I offer my child?” – How to impose on others in Isu (Grassfields Bantu)
Nancy C. Kula:
Nominal compounding and associative phrases in Bemba
Lutz Marten:
Agreement in locative phrases in Luganda
Dame Ndao:
Dérivation and réduplication en pepel
Ayu’nwi N. Neba:
The realization of tense/aspect tones in Bafut
Lukas Neukom:
The suffix -do in Kenga – Ventive and past, one or two functions?
Peter Nichols:
Persistive and alterative – dual-time aspects in siSwati
Helma Pasch:
From anaphoric pronoun to copula in Zande
Tristan Michael Purvis:
Left Dislocation in Dagbani – A preliminary survey
Gertrud Schneider-Blum:
Don’t waste words – perspectives on the Tima lexicon
Mauro Tosco:
The grammar of space of Gawwada
Rebecca Voll:
Tense variation in the tense system of Mundabli, Western Beboid (Bantoid, Cameroon)
Beatrix von Heyking:
The functioning of personal pronouns in Belanda Boor
V. SOCIOLINGUISTICS:
Carole de Féral:
Urban practices and new identities – Pidgin and Francanglais in Cameroon
Maik Gibson:
Language shift in Nairobi
Andrew Haruna:
Language shift in Northern Nigeria – The precarious situation of the minority languages
Marie-Laure Bonson Kozi / Mimboabe Bakpa:
Contribution à la situation sociolinguistique anufo-gangam
Adjaratou Oumar Sall:
Documentation et revitalisation du bédik – Expériences de terrain et premiers resultants
Gabriele Sommer:
The concept of style/register shifting in multilingual African contexts
Klaus Wedekind:
Sociolinguistic developments affecting Beja dialects
Rezenet Moges:
Dichotomy of the Deaf community in Eritrea
James Roberts:
Goundo, a dying language of Chad
Solomija Buk / Andrij Rovenchack:
Corpus of texts in indigenous African scripts
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Matthias Brenzinger
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