July 7, 2013
2330 Mason Hall
Organizer contact: Vicki Carstens (carstensv@missouri.edu)
See Workshop Description
African Linguistics Workshop
2013 LSA Summer Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Sunday July 7, 2013
9:00-9:30 The syntax of Wh/Focus extraction in Serer
Nico Baier, University of California Berkeley
9:30-10:00 Parameterizing Case: other evidence from Bantu
Jenneke van der Wal, University of Cambridge
10:00-10:30 The syntax of the linker in Kinande
Patricia Schneider Zioga, California State University at Fullerton
10:30-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-11:15 N-words in disguise: Zulu and Xhosa augmentless nominals
Vicki Carstens & Loyiso Mletshe, University of Missouri & University of the Western Cape
Morpho-syntax
11:15-11:45 On tonal properties of Setswana agreement markers
Irina Monich, University of Connecticut
11:45-12:15 The interaction of number and gender in Katcha nominal classification
Darryl Turner, University of Edinburgh
12:15-1:45 Lunch break
1:45-2:15 Foot structure and tone in Medumba
Kathryn Hannon Franich, University of Chicago
2:15-3:15 PLENARY
Greenberg’s African language classification a half century later: a personal view
Dr. Paul Newman, distinguished professor emeritus, Indiana University
3:15 Coffee break
4:00-4:30 Abstracting over degrees in Yoruba comparison constructions
Anna Howell, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
4:30-5:00 Metalinguistic negation in Dhaasanac
Sumiyo Nishiguchi, Tokyo University of Science
5:00-5:30 Complexity and remoteness in African tense/aspect systems
Robert Botne, Indiana University
5:30-6:00 Specificity and definiteness in Yoruba
Oladipo Ajiboye, University of Lagos
6:00-9:00 Dinner: The Original Cottage Inn
512 E. Williams Street
734-663-3379
Reservation under my name/African linguistics workshop
