List of Participants

Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics
26-28 August 2013
Leiden University, Netherlands
List of Participants
Abebe Demewoz Mengesha
Ethiopian Language policy from Emperor Haile Selassie I (1930-1974) to present
Adama Djigo
Acception populaire de la notion de patrimoine culturel au Sénégal: example chez les Wolof et les Haalpularen
Alain Christian Bassene
L’indexation du sujet et de l’objet dans le groupe atlantique nord
Alexandra Vydrina
Nominalization strategies in Kakabe (Mande)
Asia Pietraszko
On the distribution of augmentless arguments in Northern Ndebele
Augustin N’Dione
Reduplication and identity in Wolof
Bienvenu Sene Mongaba
Generating -ol - and -uk - Lingála derivative verbs and their definitions. A terminological approach
Carlos Benitez-Torres
Some noun features of Tagdal, a Northern Songhay language: a study in language contact and development
Chris Reintges
From passive marker to third person singular impersonal pronoun: The DE-grammaticalization path of the Ancient Egyptian Passive suffix -tw
Christian Mbondo
Masese, Afrikaanse rijke spreekwoorden
Daniel Fekadu Bekele
Language Acquisition and Socialization among Gedeo Children
Emmanuel Nicholas Abakah
Vowel Replacement Patterns in the Mfantse Dialect of Akan
Ernest Nshemezimana
Expression de la topicalisation en kirundi
Fawwaz Al-Abed Al-Haq
The Persuasive Stategies in Political Language
Ferdinand Mberamihigo
L’expression de la possibilité en Kirundi. Analyse diachronique d’un corpus
Fernanda Maciel Ziober
Double Negation in Bantu Languages, Brazilian Portuguese and Afro-Brazilian Speeches: historical and comparative approaches
Gerard Philippson
Southern Bantu and Makhuwa revisited
Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
A diachronic phylogenetic approach to the internal classification of the Kikongo group
Goedele De Clerck & Sam Lutalo-Kiingi
Reflections on a Collaborative Approach and Knowledge Exchange in Sign Language and Deaf Community Documentation in Cameroon
Guy N’Douli
Les stratégies de passivisation et leur rôle dans la structure de l'information en civili H12 et en kikongo véhiculaire de Pointe-Noire H10B
Heather Brookes
The nature of gestures and gestural behavior among Zulu and South Sotho speakers in urban South African townships
Hilde Gunnink
Variation and change in the click consonants of Few
Ilaria Micheli
The Okiek of Mariashoni, Nakuru District, Mau Forest Complex, Kenya. A Sociolinguistic Report
Jacob Karels
Distinguishing restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses in Nyiha (Bantu, M23)
Jasper De Kind
The augment and its correlation with tone cases: a Kikongo case study
Jean Claude Dodo
La prononciation du Francais Ivoirien, un exemple de dynamyque linguistique
Joana Portia Sakyi
Information Source Marking in Akan and Ga
Joane De Lima Santiago
La reduplication dans les noms d’antilopes dans les langues Bantu
Joseph Koni Muluwa
Morphèmes marqueurs aspecto-temporels en nsong (bantu, B85d)
Katalin Buzasi
The index of Communication Potential (ICP) and its applicability in social sciences
Kenneth S. Olson
A phonology sketch of Lutos
Kwasi Adomako
Underapplication in Akan loanword adaptation
Lahcen Alami
Preposition copying in Berber
Laura J. Downing
Object markers in Chichewa: Anaphors or Agreement markers?
Mahmud Mohammed Ahmed
The Writing System in the Beja Language: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Maria Khachaturyan
Verbs with "Preverbs" in South Mande: prefixation or (pseudo)incorporation?
Mariana Martini & Marta Morgado
Guinea Bissau: The birth of a sign language
Marie Anne Boum Ndongo-Semengue
L’expression de la qualification dans les langues Bantu du Cameroun
Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle
Agreement in Afar (Eastern Cushitic)
Marjoleine Sloos
Vowel harmony in Iraqw
Martine Vanhove
Relative clauses in Beja (North-Cushitic)
Mary Pearce
Templates and Constraints in Saba Verbal Forms
Matje Tatiana Claire
Enseignement/apprentissage des langues et cultures Africaines à travers les journaux scolaires
Mbacké Diagne
Noun determination in Bayot: the case of quantifiers
Melvice Asohsi
Stacked verbal extensions: Evidence from Obang
Mia le Roux
The Setswana learner in the ELoLT (English Language of Learning and Teaching) classroom: literacy disaster… or perhaps not?
Minah Nabirye
A comparative study of the Lusoga varieties of Lutenga, Lulamogi, Lusiginhi and Lunhole
Mireille Minko
Bantou language in Central Africa
Mohamadou Hamine Wane
Noun class system of Noon
Mohemmed Sguenfle
Les métaphores de quantité en Tachelhit: Aspects sémantiques
Nada Gbegble
The expression of deontic modality in Eʋegbe (Ewe)
Nicolas Quint
The numeral system of Koalib (and neighbouring Heibanian languages)
Pither Medjo Mvé
Remarques sur les termes d'odeurs dans quelques langues bantu du Gabon. Perspective synchronique et diachronique
Rebecca Defina
Serial verb constructions in Avatime
Rich Boutwell
In Reference to Defective Participants: Anaphoric Demonstratives of the Beboid Language Nchane
Russell Norton
The Talodi Languages of SE Nuba Mountains, Sudan
Rym Jamly
Multilingualism in Tunisia : Code-Switching Arabic, English and French among educated Tunisian women
Saifeddine Mohamed
Phonological issues in the North African Berber Languages
Salome Geertsema
The other side of PIRLS (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study, 2011): An ELoLT triumph for the Setswana learner
Samson Seid
The State of Language Maintenance and Shift: The case of Yemssa
Samuel Issah Alhassan
The function of mo in the information structure of Kasem
Sanchi Ali Baba
C'lele People and Language
Sandro Capo Chichi
Nasality, liquids, and high vowels as universal epenthetic strategies ? The evidence from Gbe and Yoruba languages
Sebastian Dom
Microvariation in the expression of tense and aspect in the Kikongo dialect continuum
Serge Sagna
Variations in transitivity hierarchy between nonfinite verbs in classes e- and ba- in Gújjolaay Eegimaa (Atlantic; Niger Congo)
Sharah Drieghe
How to classify Cilinji and Cizobe, two poorly known Kikongo varieties
Sharon Rose
Moro vowel harmony: representational challenges
Steven Moran
Application and evaluation of quantitative comparative methods on Dogon
Tano Angoua Jean-Jacques
The expression of time in Bouakako Sign Language (Ivory Coast)
Tessema Ayalew Asres
Origin, Development and Current status of Geez Numerals in Ethiopia
Tlhabane David Ranamane
Tense and aspect in the translated text Chinua Achebe’s Things fall apart into Setswana
Tim Gaved
Relative clauses in Mankanya
Václav Blažek
Cushitic Year
Viktoria Apel
Focus in Fulfulde