African Linguistics Day

Friday March 20

Schedule of Talks
Time
Speaker
  Topic
10:00 A.M. Peter Avery   Consonant-tone interactions in Nguni languages
10:30 A.M. Bruce Connell    
11:00 A.M. Jeff Good   Lower Fungom in areal perspective
11:30 Cristin Kalinowski   Multidirectional vowel harmony in Esimbi
12-1:30     lunch
1:30 Myles Leitch   Pragmatically Driven Associative / Demonstrative 'Inversions' in Dibole

2:00

Jesse Lovegren   Verbal paradigms in Koshin
2:30 Isaac Gould   Mysteries of Lamnso’ si and other things
3:00 Julia Gussmann   Tone in Lamnso’
3:30     break

4:00

Safieh Moghaddam   Question formation in Lamnso
4:30 Juvenal Ndayiragie, Emmanuel Nikiema, and Parth Bhatt   The true nature of the Bantu augment
5:00 Nicholas Rolle   Tense and aspect in Esan
5:30 Annat Koren   Negation in Esan
6:00 general discussion    
 
 

Sponsored by the Department of French, the Department of Linguistics,

and the Canada Research Chair in Linguistics and Aboriginal Studies, University of Toronto


Contact & Location
 
Information: Keren Rice     rice@chass.utoronto.ca
Location: Brennan Hall 203