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THURSDAY, APRIL 17TH
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3:00 – 6:00pm
7:00pm
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Program in African
Languages: Cultural Awareness Program
Location: Students
Learning Center
African Film Screening: GUIMBA
Film by Cheick Oumar Sissoko (in Bambara and Peul
with English subtitles) 348 Students Learning Center
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FRIDAY, APRIL 18TH
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7:00 – 8:00am
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SHUTTLE SERVICE BETWEEN
HOTELS AND GEORGIA
CENTER:
7:10am: America’s Best Inns & Suites 7:20am: Howard
Johson Hotel
7:35am: Athens
Travelodge 7:40am: Days Inn
7:50am: Holiday Inn Express & Holiday Inn
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7:30 – 8:30am
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REGISTRATION
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8:30 – 9:00am
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Opening
Ceremony:
- President’s Office
- Dean’s Offie, Franklin College of Arts and
Sciences
- Director, African Studies Institute
- Associate Head, Comparative Literature
- Director, Institute for African American Studies
- Director, Linguistics Program
Location: Mahler Auditorium
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9:15 – 10:15am
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PLENARY 1:
Professor Ron Scheafer,
Southern Illinois
University,
Edwardsville
“Why
do descriptive fieldwork? Dictionaries, Precedence Types and Verb Argument Order”
Chair: Dr. Yinka Egbokhare, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Location:
Mahler Auditorium
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10:15 - 10:30am
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BREAK
(Refreshments)
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Parallel Session 1
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Room
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R
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F/G
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Y/Z
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T/U
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Documenting Endangered Languages
Chair: Shih-Ju Young
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Morpho-Syntax
Chair: Sarah Blackwell
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Orthography and Challenges with Language
Documentation
Chair: Don McCreary
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Phonetics-Phonology
Chair: Shigeto Kawahara
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10:30am
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Philip N. Anagbogu
and Ifeoma Udoye
Documenting an Endangered
Language: The Koring Experience
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Oluseye Adesola
The Non-Agreeing Resumptive
Pronoun in Yoruba
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Jacob Njagi
Simultaneous Considerations
in Kiwilwana Orthography Design
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Mike Cahill
The Phonetics and Phonology
of Labia-Velars in Dagbani
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11:00am
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Nicholas Rolle
Documenting the Endangered
African Language: Esan
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Calisto Mudzingwa
Shona Auxiliaries
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Marlyse Baptista
Field Work, Language
Documentation and Orthographic Choices: The challenge in an Archipelago
Setting
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Christina Marshall
The Phonetics and Phonology
of Nasal Harmony in Esan
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11:30am
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Kirk Miller
Hadza: Highlights from the
field
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Sam Mchombo
Discourse
Configurationality and Dislocation in Chichewa
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Peter Githinji
Lexical gaps:
Lexicographers, you got work to do
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Murray Schellenberg
Singing in Tone Languages:
The Shona Approach
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12noon
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Keith Snider
Tone and Orthography in the
African Context: What Linguists need to know
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Ken Safir
Transitivity and
Reflexivity: A Bantu Perspective
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Ephraim Avea Nsoh
Farefari goes to
school: The
result of
sustained language
documentation program
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Christopher Green
Nasal Deletion in
Class 9/10 and its Effect
on Augment Use
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12:30pm
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Manasseh Siboe Wekunda
Language Development and
Status: A case of the Waata Language in Kenya
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Mamadou Bassene
Mixed Category Constructions
in Eegima Derived Nominals
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Minah Nabirye
Research on Compiling a
monolingual Lusoga Dictionary (2001 -
2008)
conducted at Makerere Univ.
in Uganda
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Chris Nielson
An Instrumental Study of
the Effects of Focus on Shona
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1:00 – 2:30pm
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LUNCH (On your
own)
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Parallel Session 2
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Room
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R
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F/G
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Y/Z
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T/U
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Vowel Systems
Chair: Oluseye Adesola
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Digital wordlist, Creole Genesis & Shona
Narratives
Chair: Karim Traore
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Language Variation
Chair: Antje Meyke
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Morpho-syntax and Ethiopian Languages
Chair: Bezza T. Ayelew
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2:45pm
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John Victor Singler
The Restructuring of the
Klao Vowel System and its Morphophonemic consequences
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Kenneth S. Olson
Mono Digital Wordlist
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Karsten Legère
Swahili in an Ethnically
Heterogeneous Area: Data from Central Tanzania
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Getahun Amare
Negation in Argobba
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3:15pm
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Virginia L. Boyd
Comparison of the Vowel
Systems and Vowel Harmony Systems in Nine Mbam Languages
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Marlyse Baptista
The Input of African
languages on Creole Genesis
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Leonard Muaka
The Legitimacy of the unofficial
language varieties: The case of the Kenyan Youths
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Weldu Weldeyesus
A Diachronic Change of the
Gerundive in Tigrinya
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3:45pm
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Janette Quintero
Toronto Esan Project:
The Status of Long Vowels
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Rose-Marie Déchaine,
Barbosa, Mudzingwa, and Vatikiotis-Bateson
Performance Constraints in
Shona Narratives
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Demola Lewis
Many Daughters to Write
Yoruba Epitaph
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Bezza T. Ayalew
The Particle yä- in
Amharic?
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4:15 – 4:30pm
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BREAK
(Refreshments)
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Parallel Session 3
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Room
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R
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F/G
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Y/Z
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T/U
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Syntax 1
Chair: Seth
Ofori
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Language Planning and Policy
Chair: Laura Edmunds
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Phonology 1
Chair: Keith Langston
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Endangerment and Language Development
Chair: Shih-Ju Young
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4:30pm
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Tatiana Nikitina
The Syntax of Nouns in Wan
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Ettien Koffi
Cost-Benefit Analysis of
Language Planning in Cote
d’Ivoire
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Lee Bickmore
Pre-Stem Shortening in
Cilungu
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Monye Chuks Michael
Plight of Endangered
Languages in Africa
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5:00pm
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Sullay Mohamed Kanu
Syntactic Reanalysis: From
Verb to Complementizer in Temne
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Bilqis Ajoke Amoloye
Language Planning: The bane
of Yoruba language Education in Southwest Nigeria
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Galen Sibanda
A Note on the origins of
Ndebele Depressor Sonorant Consonants
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Eyamba G. Bokamba
Globalization and the lives
of local and regional Congolese languages
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5:30pm
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Seth Antwi Ofori
De and fa in Activity-based
sentences: A Reconsideration of Function(s), Complementary Usage, and Formal
Difference
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Masangu
Matondo
From the Best to the Worst:
Language Policy Regression in Tanzania
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Sophia Adjaye
The Phonological Features
of English Loanwords in Fante (Akan)
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Jonas S. Akpanglo-Nartey,
E. Nii Adjetey Adjei and
Rebecca A. Akpanglo-Nartey
Language Loss among
Indigenous Ghanaian Languages
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6:00pm
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Michelle Morrison
Challenging current notions
of the serial verb construction: Evidence from the Asante dialect of Akan
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Minah Nabirye
Learning from the history
of African language situation
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Olanike Ola Orie
Memory Yoruba and
Phonological Loss
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Chinyere Ohiri-Aniche
A Survey of Awareness of
Language Endangerment Phenomenon in Nigeria
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6:30pm
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Mamarame Seck
Non-focused and unmarked
sentence structures in Wolof
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Olayinka. A. Egbokhare and Olubusola. T. Oso
An appraisal of the use of
symbolism as a vector of Yoruba culture -a study of Saworoide (A Yoruba Home
Video).
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Harrison Adeniyi
Tone and Demonstrative
Construction in Edo
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Scott A. Smith
Language Research and
Development in Equatorial
Guinea
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7pm
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James Esseygbey
Making Sense of Negation in
Nyangbo
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Olutola Osunnuga
Nigerian Languages as Media
of Instruction in Schools: A Panacea for National Development
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Wm. G. Bennett
False nasals: [± pulmonic]
and click distribution
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Dahiru Muhammad Argungu
The Hausa Ajami Script and
the Threat of Extinction
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7:45pm
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RECEPTION
Performances by
African Students Union (ASU) Dance Troupe Location: GA Center Ballrooms
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8:45pm
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SHUTTLE SERVICE BACK TO HOTELS
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SATURDAY, APRIL 19TH
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7:00 – 8:00am
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SHUTTLE SERVICE BETWEEN
HOTELS AND GEORGIA
CENTER:
7:10am: America’s Best Inns & Suites 7:20am: Howard Johson Hotel
7:35am: Athens
Travelodge 7:40am: Days Inn
7:50am: Holiday Inn Express & Holiday Inn
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7:30 – 8:30am
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REGISTRATION
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8:30am
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PLENARY 2:
ROUND TABLE Location: Mahler
Auditorium
“Documentation of African
Language Grammars: The W.E.B Du Bois Series"
John Mugane - Gikuyu (Chair)
Charles Owu-Ewie - Akan/Twi
Lupenga Mphande - Chitumbuka
Masangu Matondo - Kisukuma
Akinbiyi Akinlabi - Yoruba
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9:45 – 10am
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BREAK (Refreshments)
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Parallel Session 4
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Room
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R
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F/G
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Y/Z
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T/U
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Bantu
Prefix, Affixes and Suffixes
Chair: Rose Upor
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Phonetics
Chair: Masangu Matondo
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Verbal
Morphology
Chair: Hyangsoon Yi
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Discourse
Chair: Antje Meyke
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10:00am
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Jonathan Choti
The Morphosyntax of the
Preprefix in Ekegusii
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Jonathan C. Anderson
and Louis P. Rabaut
Sudanese Arabic Uvular and
Pharyngeal Fricatives in the Arabic Dialect Continuum
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Gabriela Alboiu
and Peter Avery
Ndebele Verbal Morphology
and DP argument-adjunct asymmetries
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Mamadou Bassene
Turn Organization in
Eegimaa Conversation
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10:30am
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Laura McPherson
and Mary Paster
Evidence for the Mirror
Principle and Morphological Templates in Luganda Affix
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Elizabeth Rogers,
Calisto Mudzingwa and Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson
Secondary Secondary
Articulations: Labialisation and Velarisation in Shona
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Pierre Rucart
Verbal Morphology of Bedja
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James Azure Ababila
Thematic Analysis of Gurene
Proverbs
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11:00am
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Aggrey Wasike
The Locative Affix in
Kiswahili and other Bantu Languages
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Amanda L. Miller
Phonetic and Phonological
Representations of [Airstream]
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Franca Ferrari-Bridgers
A Quantitative and
Qualitative Morphological Analysis of Luganda
De-verbal Nouns
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Oluwaseun Rachael Bello
Linguistic Features of
Condolences in Educated Yoruba English
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11:30am
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Boniface Kawasha
Derivational Verbal
Suffixes without altering the Verb Argument structure in Bantu
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Rebecca Atchoi Akpanglo-Nartey
and Jonas S. Akpanglo-Nartey
Comparative Acoustic Study
of Ghanaian English and other major varieties of English
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Dmitry Idiatov
A New ‘Voice’ from Africa: Deobliquative
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Ayodeji Isaac Shittu
Semantics Subversion of
Institutional Acronyms and Abbrevations in Nigeria
as Counter-Text/Discourse: A Postcolonialist Reading
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12:00 – 1:15pm
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LUNCH (to be
provided) & ACAL BUSINESS MEETING
Location: Mahler
Auditorium
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Parallel Session 5
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Migration,
Identity and Language Use
Chair: Antje Meyke
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Tonal Processes
Chair: Shigeto Kawahara
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Stylistics
and Language Use
Chair: Laura Edmunds
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Syntax 2
Chair: Abderrahmane Zouhir
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1:30pm
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Cécile B. Vigouroux
From Africa to Africa:
Migratory Trajectories and Language Ideology
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Raphael Girard
Domain Sensitivity of Tonal
Processes: Evidence from Shona Nouns
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Adesola Olateju
Jedi O M’Akowe: A
Sociolinguistic-Stylistic Analysis of the Language of Yoruba Herbal Medicine
Practitioners
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Abderrahmane Zouhir
Toward a Unified Analysis
of Left Dislocation Construction in Arabic
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2:00pm
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Charles Bwenge
Language and Identity in
Tanzanian Electoral Policies: The case of 2005 Parliamentary Campaigns in
Bukoba District
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Michael R.
Marlo
Tone Reversal in Lumarachi
Verbs
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Adeyemi Adegoju
The Hermeneutics of
‘Floating Signifiers’ in Yoruba Traditional Belief System
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Heather Bliss
Comparing APPLs and Oranges: The Syntax of
Shona Applicatives
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2:30pm
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H. Adeniyi
and O. R. Bello
Language Contact and
Language Use: A Study of Igbo Undergraduates in selected Nigerian
Universities
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Sophie Manus
Noun Tone and Penult
Melodies in Símákonde
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Dayo Akanmu
The Oriki (Panegyric)
Phenomenon as Archival Material for Yoruba History
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Enoch O. Aboh
Serializing without Sharing
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3:00pm
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Kelechuckwu Ihemere
Language Shift in Port Harcourt City: the Role of Social Networks
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Leonard Chacha
Tone in Vowel-initial Verbs
in Kuria
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Jaleel Olasunkanmi Ojuade
Interpreting the Language
of Drums: A Case of Yoruba Traditional Bata and Dundun Dancers
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Elizabeth Ferch
The Structure of Clausal
Negation in Shona
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3:30pm
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Adebisi Abraham Oyewole
Yoruba Language Use in
Nigerian Politics: A Worthwhile Rescue Mission
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Brian McHugh
and Seunghun J. Lee
Superhigh Tone Binarity in
KiVunjo Chaga
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Nanashaitu A. Umoru-Oke
and Michael
A. Okunade
Yoruba Language in
Jeopardy: Analyses of some Pottery Related Proverbs
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Jason Overfelt
The Behavior of Tigrinya
PPs: Head Movement and Affixation by Adjency
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4:00 – 4:15pm
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BREAK
(Refreshments)
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Parallel Session 6
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Historical
Linguistics
Chair: George Alao
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Morphology
1
Chair: Rose Upor
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Language
Acquisition
Chair: Alwiya Omar
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Negation,
Interrogatives and Word Formation
Chair: Leonard Muaka
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4:30pm
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Abdul Salau
Linguistic Unity between
Yoruba and Ancient Egyptian Language
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Carmela Toews
The Expression of Aspect in
Shona
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Francisca Adzo Adjei
Children’s Use of Nyá
Construction in Ewe
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Usama Soltan
On the Morpho-Syntax of
Negation and Imperatives in Standard Arabic
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5:00pm
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Birgit Ricquier
Some Culinary
Reconstructions Reconsidered: The Osculant Cluster ◦-tédlk- /
◦-téek-
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Alexandre Kimenyi
Bantu Noun-class system
Revisited
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Alwiya S. Omar
Kiswahili Noun Class
Agreement System: A cross-sectional survey of learners’ Performance
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Kristina Riedel
Object Marking in
Wh-questions in Bantu
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5:30pm
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Koen Boestoen
A Comparative Approach to
Historical Sound Change in Shanjo and Few
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Irina S.
Ryabova
Ways of expressing the
attribute in the Dabida language
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Nwosu Nnenna Nwanyioma
L’Ambiguite Structurale A
L’Ecrit: Enseigner L’Emploi Des Prepositions En Fle A Travers La Langue Igbo
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Ragia Effat
Interrogation in Swahili
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6:00pm
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Paul D.
Fallon
The Velar Ejective in
Proto-Agaw
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Dennis Ryan Storoshenko
Investingating the Shona
Reflexive zvi
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Peter Avery
and John Alderete
Acquiring the Plural in
Dholuo
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Mokiya Bosire
What Makes a Sheng Word
Unique? Word Formation Strategies in Mixed Languages
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6:30pm
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Diane Lesley-Neuman
Agreement System Evolution
and Morpheme Genesis in Karimojong: Evidence from Internal Reconstruction
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Maud Devos
Grammaticalization of focus in Shangaci: two
possible paths?
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Tola Mosadomi
Vowel Lengthening in the
Yoruba classroom
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Mark Van de Velde and
Odette Ambourué
The Grammar of Proper Names
in Orungu (Gabon,
Bantu B11b)
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7:30pm
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BANQUET
Memorial Hall Ballroom
Speaker: Professor Eyamba G. Bokamba, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Linguistic
Imperialism in Africa: The Role of Ukolonia
and Critical Game Theory in Explaining African Language Outcomes.”
Shuttle Service from GA Center starts at 7pm (Memorial
hall is within walking distance)
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10:30 – 1am
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DANCE! DANCE!! DANCE!!!
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10pm
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SHUTTLE SERVICE
BACK TO HOTELS (Ongoing till 1:30am)
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SUNDAY, APRIL 20TH
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7:00 – 8:00am
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SHUTTLE SERVICE BETWEEN
HOTELS AND GEORGIA
CENTER:
7:10am: America’s Best Inns & Suites 7:20am: Howard Johson Hotel
7:35am: Athens
Travelodge 7:40am: Days Inn
7:50am: Holiday Inn Express & Holiday Inn
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Parallel Session 7
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Language
Contact, Development and Promotion
Chair: Karim Traore
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Phonology
2
Chair: Harrison Adeniyi
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Acoustic
Study of Vowels
Chair: Jonas S.
Akpanglo-Nartey
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Semantics-Pragmatics
Chair: Laura Edmunds
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8:00am
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George Alao
Promotion and Pedagogy of
African Languages and Cultures Abroad: Recent Diaspora’s Contribution
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Charlotte Fofo Lomotey
On the Phonetic Status of
[æ] in Akan
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Ashleigh Gonzales
A Descriptive Study of
Intrinsic F0 in Shona Vowels
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Sumiyo Nishiguchi
Polarity Focus in Dhaasanac
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8:30am
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Adijat Adeola Faleye
Language Restriction in
Radio Program Presentation as a s source of Indigenous Language Promotion:
The Orisun FM as a case study
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Atoyebi Joseph
Dele
On Nasals and Nazalization
in Zkz
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Charlotte Fofo Lomotey
The Vowels of Akan
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Thera Marie Crane
The State (and Progress) of
the Perfect in Totela
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9:00am
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Victor Ariole
Analysis of some
Metalinguistic Items in Francophone African Literature
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Sergio Baldi
Arabic Loanwords in
Swahili: Addenda
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Anita Szakay
and Calisto Mudzingwa
Vowel Reduction,
Penultimate Lengthening and the Prosodic Rhythm of Shona
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Samuel Awinkene Atintono and James Azure Ababila
The Semantic and Syntactic
Properties of CUT and BREAK Verbs in Gurenε
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9:30am
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Johnson Adewale Mafikuyomi and Simon Segun Olaoye
The Concepts of
code-switching and code-mixing as sociolinguistic tools in students’
conversations
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Masangu Matondo
On Ternary Domains in
Sukuma Tonology
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Kofi Adu Manyah
Relationship between Tone
and Vowel Quality in Twi: An Acoustic Study
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Effiong Ekpenyong
Languages, the Semantics of
AIDS, and the Ibibio Language Equivalent
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10am
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Olaoba F. Arasanyin
Confronting the Dialectics
of the Nigerian Language Policy: The Constitutional Solution
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Robert S. Williams
and Jade Comfort
Topics in the Derivational
Morphology of Ghulfan (Kordofan Nubian)
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Jonas S. Akpanglo-Nartey, and Rebecca
A. Akpanglo-Nartey
Comparative Acoustic Study
of the Vowels of Sevel Ghanaian Languages
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Akinloye Ojo
Language-Based Problems and National Development in Nigeria
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10:15am
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BREAK
(Refreshments)
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Parallel Session 8
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Syntax 3
Chair: Jean Kidula
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Morphology
2
Chair: Akinloye Ojo
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Final
Session 1
Chair: Lioba Moshi
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Final
Session 2
Chair:
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10:30am
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Ephraim
Avea Nsoh
A Typology of Adjectives in the Gur languages: A
morpho-syntactic Analysis
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Kossi Noglo
Testing a Western Hypothesis in African Setting: A
case of Reallocation in Urban Ewe
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Lioba Moshi
The Plight of Indigenous Languages:
A Prognosis
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OPEN
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11am
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Alain-Christian
Bassene
Topicalisation and Focalisation in Jóola Banjal
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Philip W. Rudd
Habitual Aspect in Sheng
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Laurentious
S. Davids
The Challenge of Language Development in African
Languages in Namibia
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OPEN
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11:30am
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Cathleen Waters
Esan Adverbs: Position, structure and restriction
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M. T. Yaqub
Characteristics of Ideophones of African Languages:
A case study of Shuwa Arabic
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Bolaji Ezekiel and Kehinde Adeniyi
Phonological Deviation in Spoken English among
students in Nigerian Tertiary Institutions: Drama and Theatre to the Rescue
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OPEN
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12noon
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LUNCH
(on your own)
End
of ACAL 39
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