The Afranaph Project: Anaphora in the African Languages

The main goal of the Afranaph Project, as it is presently constituted, is to develop rich descriptions of a wide range of African languages in order to serve the interests of linguistic research into the nature and distribution of empirical patterns in natural language. The first project of our website, and still the one that is the mainstay of our research, has been to explore the distribution of anaphoric morphology and interpretation, but recent initiatives to expand the role of our empirical investigations to other sorts of linguistic phenomena will soon result in sister projects, autonomous, but linked to Afranaph in spirit, by infrastructure, and with respect to a common database.

 

 

 

 

 

 All participants will receive their conference materials either upon check-in at the hotel or at the reception on Thursday, December 12. This includes a schedule of the workshop and abstracts for all talks, as well as a campus map and visitors' guides with information on local restaurants. The reception will be held at 5pm at the Linguistics Department, Room 230: Poulton Hall, 1421 37th Street NW, Washington, DC 20057.

Participants receiving per diem payments should contact Ruth Kramer (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) or Conor Sinclair (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) directly to arrange for payment during the conference.

Please contact the department if you have any questions at 202-687-5956