3rd Afranaph Project Development Workshop: Preliminary Program
All events in Intercultural Center Auditorium
| December 13 | |
| 9-9:30 | Introduction to Afranaph and State of the Project Ken Safir |
| 9:30-10 | Tense and Aspect in Akan (handout) Augustina Owusu |
| 10-10:30 | Tense-aspect Marking in Babanki (handout) Pius Akumbu |
| 10:30-11 | Coffee break |
| 11-12 | New Research Topic: The Syntax of Having (handout) Patricia Schneider-Zioga and Philip Ngessimo Mutaka |
| 12-1:30 | Lunch (not provided) |
| 1:30-2 | Anaphors in Urhobo (handout) Rose Aziza and Eseoghene Aleh |
| 2-2:30 | The Anaphora System in Ibibio (handout) Willie Udo Willie |
| 2:30-3 | Coffee Break |
| 3-3:30 | Evidence for polarity head: On the interaction of A'-movement and negation in Igbo (handout) Mary Amaechi |
| 3:30-4 | New Research Topic: In-depth investigation of modality in African languages (handout) Lydia Newkirk |
| 4:30-6 | Poster Session (Poulton 230) |
| December 14 | |
| 9-9:30 | Focus constructions in Akan Kofi Busia Abrefa |
| 9:30-10 | Complementizers and Interrogative Clauses in Avatime (handout) Blake Lehmann, Travis Major, and Harold Torrence |
| 10-10:30 | Valency decreasing derivations and middles in Limbum (handout) Francis Wepngong Ndi |
| 10:30-11 | Coffee break |
| 11-12 | New Research Topic: Actual Clauses Justine Sikuku, Joseph Wanyonyi, and Ken Safir |
| 12-1:30 | Lunch (Not provided) |
| 1:30-2 | A theory of (c)overt object pronouns in Kwa: Evidence from Gã (handout) Sampson Korsah |
| 2-2:30 | Contrasting (Doubled) Clitics & Agreement Affixes: A View from Tigrinya Pronominal Affixes Keffyalew Gebregziabher |
| 2:30-3:10 | Afranaph Sister Project Progress Report: Object Marking (handout) Michael Diercks, Justine Sikuku, Kang “Franco” Liu, and David Langa |
| 3:10-3:30 | Coffee Break |
| 3:30-4 | Possession and Nominalization in Dan: Evidence for a General Theory of Categories (handout) Mark Baker and Bleu Gondo |
| 4-4:30 | The distribution and function of "noun class" morphology in Shupamem (handout) Benjamin Macaulay and Hagay Schurr |
| 4:30-5:30 | New Research Topic: Agreement with Conjuncts (handout) Vicki Carstens |
| 5:30-6 | Afranaph Board Meeting (Open to all) |
| 7-10 | Banquet (Copley Formal Lounge) |
Poster Session:
Wh-movement in Ga
Hana Altalhi
Negation in Defoid Languages (handout)
Bolanle Arokoyo
Vowel hiatus at word boundaries and prosodic structure in Ikpana (handout)
Bertille Baron
Prosodic Alignment in Nobiin (handout)
Maya Barzilai
A new allophonic alternation in Lingala (handout)
Sarah Bellavance
Pre-verbal affixes in Kĩmwĩmbĩ (handout)
Ann Hildah Kinyua and Fridah Erastus
Two Deverbal Nominalization Structures in Ga
Lydia Felice
The interface between inflection and derivation in the Kinasukuma noun class system
Peji Lunyili
Investigation into causative constructions (handout)
Hazel Mitchley
Ergative case-marking and antipassive voice: a view from Grassfields Bantu (handout)
Hagay Schurr and Ben Macaulay
Morphologically conditioned vowel length in Ga (handout)
Katherine Russell
Extended projections and verb movement in Guebie imperatives
Ivy Wang
Regressive Low Tone Spreading in Ga
Luopeng Zheng
Sponsors
National Science Foundation
Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University
Office of Global Engagement, Georgetown University
Mortara Center for International Studies, Georgetown University
