PROGRAMME
September 18. Centre Fiap Jean Monnet, Hall «Oslo»
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Registration | |
Opening session (Chair: Larry Hyman) |
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| 10:00 - 10:30 | Legrand, Jacques INALCO (to be confirmed) Vanhove, Martine LLACAN Babaev, Kirill Russian Academy of Sciences |
Opening Address |
Morning session. General Niger-Congo (Chair: Jean-Marie Hombert) |
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| 10:30 - 11:00 | Anderson, Gregory | S/TAM/P morphs (Portmanteau subject/TAM/polarity morphs) in Niger-Congo languages |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Babaev, Kirill Russian Academy of Sciences |
Niger-Congo Person Markers: Testing the Kinship with Morphology |
| 11:30 - 11:55 | ||
| 11:55 - 12:25 | Starostin, George RSUH, Moscow |
Lexicostatistics in Africa and its role in the reconstruction of Proto-Niger-Congo |
| 12:25 - 12:45 | Monich, Irina University of Connecticut |
On the nature of Final and Initial Vowels in Niger-Congo languages |
| 12:45 - 14:15 | ||
Afternoon session 1. Kwa (Chair: Guillaume Segerer) |
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| 14:15 - 14:35 | Abakah, Emmanuel Nicholas Department of Akan-Nzema, University of Education, Winneba |
Hypotheses on the Development of the Akan Language Group |
| 14:35 - 15:05 | Capochichi, Sandro Université Paris 7 |
Le Gbe comme un groupe de langues mixtes: son apport à la reconstruction du Proto Kwa et du Proto Benoué-Congo |
| 15:05 - 15:35 | Dakubu, Mary Esther University of Legon |
Towards a phonology of Proto-Kwa: onwards from Stewart's "Potou-Akanic-Bantu" |
| 15:35 - 16:00 | ||
Afternoon session 2. Ubangi (Chair: Pascal Boyeldieu) |
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| 16:00- 16:30 | Moñino, Yves LLACAN |
Is Ubangian Branch a family among Niger-Congo languages? |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Olson, Kenneth SIL International |
Is Ubangi a part of Niger-Congo? The case of Prothesis in Banda |
| 17:00 - 17:20 | Paulin, Pascale DDL |
L’étude comparative de six langues « sere-ngbaka-mba » dans une perspective de reconstruction d’une protolangue et de proposition d’inférences de contacts historiques |
| 17:20 - 18:00 | General discussion of topics of the day (Chair: Georges Starostin) | |
September 19. Centre Fiap Jean Monnet, Hall «Oslo»
Morning session. Bantu and Bantoid (Chair: Mary Esther Dakubu) |
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| 10:00 - 10:30 | Bostoen, Koen Ghent University/Université libre de Bruxelles |
Kikongo dialect continuum: internal and external classification |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Connell, Bruce York University, Toronto |
Pronoun systems as evidence for language history: Personal pronouns in Mambiloid |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Di Carlo, Pierpaolo &. Good, Jeff University of Buffalo |
Trees, waves, and magnets? The role of language ideologies in Benue-Congo diversification |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | ||
| 11:50 - 12:20 | Hombert Jean-Marie & Grollemund, Rebecca DDL |
Proto-Bantu: Before and After |
| 12:20 - 12:50 | Hyman, Larry Berkeley University |
Reconstructing Proto-Bantoid Morphology: An appraisal |
| 12:50 - 13:20 | Watters, John SIL International |
Towards the reconstruction of tense and aspect in early Bantoid |
| 13:20 - 14:50 | ||
Afternoon session 1. Niger-Congo & Jukunoid (Chair: Kirill Babaev) |
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| 14:50 - 15:20 | Nurse, Derek | Aspect and tense in Niger-Congo |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | Anyanwu, Rose-Juliet Institut für Afrikanistik, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt/Main |
Jukunoid negation particles: special emphasis on Yukuben |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | ||
Afternoon session 2. Adamawa (Chair: John Watters) |
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| 16:00 - 16:30 | Anikina, Tatiana & Lyakhovich, Anastasia & Zheltov, Alexander S.-Petersburg State University |
Towards a comparative description of the Adamawa languages of Mumuye-Yendang and Leko-Nimbari groups: A preliminary analysis of the field data |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Kleinewillinghöfer, Ulrich Universität Mainz |
Sama-Duru, a core group of Central Adamawa: An appraisal of its lexicon and noun class system |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Boyeldieu, Pascal LLACAN |
Les langues du groupe Boua (Adamawa-13 de J.H. Greenberg) |
| 17:30 - 18:10 | General discussion of topics of the day (Chair: Robert Carlson) | |
September 20. INALCO, «Auditorum»
Morning session. Western Benue-Congo (Chair: Tucker Childs) |
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| 9:40 - 10:00 | Agoyi, Taiwo Opeyemi University Akungba-Akoko Ondo State, Nigeria |
Re-classification of Abesabesi (Akpes) as Edoid |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Arokoyo, Bolanle Elizabeth University of Ilorin, Nigeria |
A Comparative Phonology of the Olùkùmi, Igala, Owe and Yoruba Languages |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Achebe, Ike & Eme, Cecilia Amaoge Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria |
The Place of Ika, Ikwere, and Izii-Ezaa-Ikwo-Mgbo in the reconstruction of Proto-Igbo: Data from the IADP Corpus |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Ohiri-Aniche, Chinyere & Mbah, B.M. | Reconstructing the Igbo Cluster (a communication to be presented by Ben Elugbe) |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | ||
| 11:30 - 11:50 | Oshodi, Boluwaji Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba Akoko Nigeria / Universiti Malaysia Sarawak Kota Samarahan |
The Arigidi Cluster: an Internal Re-classification |
| 11:50 - 12:20 | Elugbe, Ben University of Ibadan - Nigeria |
Comparative Akedoid and West Benue-Congo |
| 12:20 - 12:50 | Salffner, Sophie SOAS, UK & Sands, Bonny, Northern Arizona University, USA |
Why Ukaan is hard to classify? |
| 12:50 - 14:20 | ||
Afternoon session 1. Ijoid, Kru, Dogon (Chair: Ben Elugbe) |
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| 14:20 - 14:50 | Connell, Bruce York University, Toronto |
Ijoid in Niger-Congo: A review of the evidence |
| 14:50 - 15:20 | Zogbo, Lynell Abidjan |
Kru Revisited, Kru Revealed |
| 15:20 - 15:50 | Heath, Jefferey, University of Michigan & Prokhorov, Kirill, Humboldt University, Berlin & Steve, Moran, University of Munich |
Dogon classification |
| 15:50 - 16:10 | ||
Afternoon session 2. Gur-Senufo (Chair: Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer) |
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| 16:10 - 16:40 | Babaev, Kirill Russian Academy of Sciences |
Reconstruction of Gur pronouns |
| 16:40 - 17:10 | Kleinewillinghöfer, Ulrich, JG Universität Mainz; Gudrun Miehe, Manfred von Rocador; Kerstin Winkelmann | Overview of noun classes in Gur (II) (revised and enlarged version) |
| 17:10 - 17:40 | Carlson, Robert | Proto-Senufo noun phrase syntax and noun morphology |
| 17:40 - 18:20 | General Discussion of topics of the day (Chair: Bruce Connell) | |
Conference Dinner |
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September 21. INALCO, «Auditorum»
Morning session. Atlantic (Chair: Valentin Vydrin) |
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| 9:40 - 10:10 | Childs, G. Tucker University of Oregon |
Synthesis before the Proto-Niger-Congo inflectional verb: Evidence from the peripheral South Atlantic languages |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Konstantin Pozdniakov INALCO - IUF - LLACAN |
Problems of genetic classification of Atlantic and Mel languages |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Guillaume Segerer LLACAN |
From proto-Joola to proto-Bak: steps towards proto-(Northern-) Atlantic |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | ||
Afternoon session 1. Mande and Kordofanian (Chair: Konstantin Pozdniakov) |
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| 11:30 - 12:00 | Nikitina, Tatiana Higher School of Economics (Moscow) |
Towards a Syntactic Reconstruction of Proto-Mande |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Vydrin, Valentin LLACAN - INALCO |
Towards Proto-Mande |
| 12:30 - 13:00 | Quint, Nicolas LLACAN - CNRS |
Heibanian and Talodian (Kordofanian): a comparative approach |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | ||
| 14:30 - 15:10 | General discussion of topics of the day (Chair: Derek Nurse) | |
| 15:10 - 15:40 | Moderator: George Starostin | Thematic discussion: Problems of genetic classification. |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | ||
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Moderator: Larry Hyman | Thematic Discussion: Morphology reconstruction. |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Moderator: Valentin Vydrin | Thematic discussion: Reconstruction of lexicon. |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Moderator: Guillaume Segerer | Thematic Discussion: Data bases for the Niger-Congo reconstruction. |
17:30-18:10 Closing session (Chair: Larry Hyman ) |
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